Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Apparently it was a collective effort. Everybody knows it. Oh sure they do. But they look away. They try and ignore it. If it’s mentioned in conversation they scoff and wave it away a…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:34AMMonday, July 21, 2014
I guess if there was such a thing as a credo for me, a simple step by step, ABC sort of program for making good theater (there isn’t of course), at least the kind of theater I like, I …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:52PMFriday, July 18, 2014
Well it worked for the 67 shows (out of the almost 200 of 290 possible that actually received FringeMeter ratings) that received perfect 100% Sweet reviews from their peers. I guess. Dependi…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:27PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter these are the 2014 top 25 training grounds for theater artists in the world. Or as I like to affectionately refer to these institutions of learning: …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:05PMThursday, July 17, 2014
Fairly impressive to say the least. Here are the numbers from the Fringe presser: Hollywood Fringe Festival organizers announced today that the fifth annual festival, which closed June 29th,…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:04PMThursday, July 10, 2014
As promised, here are some highlights from a conversation that has been going on recently at the BigCheap List concerning the 99 Seat Plan. The title of the discussion was If You Think You…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:53AMThose of us who are members (can’t really remember how I become a member but I think I was invited and just clicked yes in a drunken stupor one night not unlike most of what happens on…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:09AMWednesday, July 9, 2014
There are several layers of irony going here, but mostly this is simply a wonderful example of WrightCrit. Something I experimented with during the run of one of my own plays Breaking and E…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:47PMNot sure why Steven Leigh Morris, editor over at Stage Raw, didn’t just let Joe Stern write this thing himself. Guess the appearance of an “interview” was good enough in t…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:35PMMonday, July 7, 2014
It’s not out of anything dramatic or even sinister really, besides being madly busy with my own show (extending for two shows!) and all things Fringe, I am now in Colorado tending to …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:12AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Saturday July 12th, 9pm and Friday, July 18th, 8pm at Theater Asylum. In the bigger theater. The Lab. Boom. Get your tickets now. Yep, I am still unabashedly pushing my show Linden Arden Sto…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:33AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
The details are still coming in, but I have confirmed from a reliable source that longtime Los Angeles AEA liaison and a tireless administrator for the 99 Seat Plan since it’s inceptio…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:00PMMonday, June 30, 2014
Congrats to all these folks. I saw most of these shows and their plaudits are well deserved: Fringe Freaks (Community-Voted Awards): Top of the Fringe: Women Fringe First (World Premiere): N…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:27PMYep. He’s back, apparently, and doing what he does best. Creep everybody out. An actor who would like to remain nameless contacted me and said he’d been contacted by Kenne Guillo…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:01PMBLOAT (Bitter Lemons Outrageous Award for Theater) Belli Gemelli: An Opera Sitcom BLAFF (Bitter Lemons Award for Family Fare) Beau & Aero BLIFF (Bitter Lemons Irreverent Fringe Femmes) W…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:24PMSunday, June 29, 2014
The TPA is sponsored by Bitter Lemons and Combined Artform and distinguishes the company that can best depict their live stage production in a cinematic way in a one minute video trailer. Th…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:00PMThe Annual Bitter Lemons sponsored awards for the Hollywood Fringe Festival are as follows (with nominees): The Bitter Lemons Outrageous Award for Theater (BLOAT) This award is for th…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:47PMFriday, June 27, 2014
And our eighteenth and final submission for the Trailer Park Award: The Conduct of Life:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:26PMAnd our seventeenth submission for the Trailer Park Award: Vengeance Can Wait:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:02PMAnd our sixteenth submission for the Trailer Park Award: Happy and Gay:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:46PMAnd the fifteenth submission for our Trailer Park Award: Open Mike:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:40PMAnd our fourteenth submission for the Trailer Park Award: The Pens Shall Have Their Day:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:34PMI believe Linden Arden Stole the Highlights is completely sold out for its 10pm curtain tonight, but there are usually a couple of no shows, so stop on by Theatre Asylum and you just might g…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:04PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
I always find it incredibly entertaining how the things that I write in about five minutes almost always are better read than those that I spend a day or two crafting. Hell, I’ve even …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:27PMAnd our thirteenth submission for the Trailer Park Award: Total Novice:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:59PMAnd here is the twelfth submission for our Trailer Park Award: In Food Empire:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:44PMAnd the eleventh submission for the Trailer Park Award: The Navigator:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:23PMAnd the tenth submission for our Trailer Park Award: Rock and Roll’s Greatest Lovers:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:52PMAnd the ninth submission for our Trailer Park Award: Friends Like These:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:27PMAnd the eighth submission for our Trailer Park Award: Denim on Denim II: Roadhouse of Cards:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:14PMAnd the seventh entry for the Trailer Park Award: Fancy: Secrets from my BootyDoir:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:04PM 
