“This ninety minute show is, simply, a pleasure. Having recently been dismissed from A Noise Within’s critic list (probably for being impatient with their inferior Macbeth this seaso…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMNot, of course, to be confused with their “mission statement” which is this: The Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles is a trade association comprised of theatrical produce…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:36PMBesides the Opening and Closing Night parties, this is probably one of the funnest events connected to the Fringe. Plus it helps the Fringe Folk pay for all the shizzle they’ll be dizz…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:55PMIt can’t be a review. It just can’t. I don’t think it’s a preview. I’m pretty sure it’s not a press release. If it is it’s a really badly written on…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:26AMTo all of our warriors past and present, especially those that have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep us free. Thank you. Miss you somethin’ fierce, pop.
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:04PMY’all may have noticed a hollow sound reverberating over the last couple of Sundays. No COWs. That’s right. Because every fucking review I read over the last two weeks sucked! No…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMTony the Frank writes a poem about a play. Call it self-indulgent, call it disrespectful, I call it a pretty good read. And oddly, filled with what appears to be a genuine angst. DIFFERENT W…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:00AM“It’s astonishing that CTG, which continues to bill itself as “L.A.’s Theatre Company,” can’t find more interesting stories in the immensely diverse commu…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:31PMThat’s right I just wrote about myself in the third person. It’s very freeing, you should try it. Anyhoosiers, Dale Reynolds, theater critic over at Stagehappenings, was kind eno…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:23PMAnd what is this Trailer Park Award (TPA) you might ask? Here’s the skinny: Bitter Lemons and Combined Artform in collaboration with the Hollywood Fringe Festival would like to invite …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:56PMI had absolutely no intention whatsoever to keep working on this story. None. Frankly, writing these types of articles take more out of me than they give back. Nevertheless, I find they are …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:10PMWhat’s the fucking point people? And I pose this question to everyone involved, to Storiale, the writer, Jessica P. Ogilivie and the editors over at LA Weekly, as well as all the other…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:07PM“To judge from Mr. LaBute’s body of work, one can imagine him as a child attending a performance of Peter Pan and clapping his hands bloodied to bring “Tink” back to life.Only to…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:49PMAccording to Paul Storiale they are. Storiale contacted me last week wondering whether I’d like to hear his story. I said I would listen. I first asked him why he was contacting Bitter…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:03PMThis sounds like shite-loads of fun. Especially the live-band karaoke. Love me some live-band karaoke. Hope they roll that out again for this year’s Fringe. If you’ve never seen …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:25PMAnd this is why. Only a Scot could get into a bonafide row with a lift. Hi-fuckin’-larious.
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:46PMBeen meaning to post this for a while now. But then again I’ve been meaning to do a lot lately THAT I JUST CAN’T FIND THE FUCKING TIME TO DO! Why am I shouting? Must be the heat&…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:44PMIn 2011, year two of the Fringe Festival, the Fringe folk set up a tent at their Fringe Central which was at the currently named Schkapf location (formerly Artworks Theatre). It was a revela…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:31PM“It’s not that theater is only worth seeing if it has movie actors in it; that would be a horrible thing to say that I would never say, and not only because I do not want to h…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:50PMBecause I’m not a fuckin’ bird. Nor do I Facebook. Yes, we use both for marketing and promotions here at Bitter Lemons, but for the most part those are automatic when we post som…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:23PMSo as I mentioned here, I contacted the Vanity Fair editor Katey Rich asking if they’d actually let someone directly affected by the Jimmy Im article – like someone who has actua…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:09AMApparently I did a Q & A for the Los Angeles Post with Rose Desena on my upcoming Fringe show Linden Arden Stole the Highlights. Or was it Linden that did it? Back in your box demon! Any…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:55PMSaw this show a couple weeks back and it is most definitely worth a look if you haven’t seen it yet. It’s also doing pretty well on our LemonMeter. And it’s forthcoming mov…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:18PMDoug the Clayton gave us a shout about a recent blogpost written by LA Theater mainstay and now departing Peter Kuo, and wrote a post of his own in response. He thought it might find some re…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:21PMThough I believe the rezzies are already at capacity for this next incarnation of my play, I thought I’d get it out there for those of you who missed the last read at Rogue Machine bac…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:23AMTony the Frank tears the scab off the dirty little secret concerning a couple of America’s “golden boy” playwrights with this week’s COW. He casts his net a bit far…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:15AM“The problem is that it is more disturbing than it needs to be. Tony Doublin’s special effects of blood and a wound are vividly realistic, but the gore took center stage, turning wha…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:34PMAnother new entrant to the hallowed Bitter Lemons Contributing Hall of Shame comes the original Voxelpunk himself Noah J Nelson of Turnstyle fame. Huzzah! This dude is all kinds of smart an…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:56PMThat would be my show. That’s right. Linden Arden is returning to the stage for a limited engagement of 5 shows at the Fringe this summer. I first did the show in San Francisco in 1994…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:40PMLos Angeles Theater/Film/Music Critic Kurt Gardner responded to our call for new writers. I said, “What you got, Kurt?” He said, “I got this.” I said, “What y…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:13PMSesame Street does “Waiting for Elmo”. Monsterpiece Theatre. Classic.
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:18PM
