Sesame Street does “Waiting for Elmo”. Monsterpiece Theatre. Classic.
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:18PMThe giddy roar. Always a pleasant sound. THE YELLOW BOAT Jason Rohrer – Stage and Cinema ON A SEA OF TEARS It’s a play that deals with AIDS, and the central character is a little boy…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:57PM“Which brings me back to the original point: how much should, or do, we care about revisiting Ruth Draper? Put another way, would most of us be interested in this project if it were no…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:43PMAnd he does. But I remain a bit perplexed why current New York resident Rob Weinert-Kendt was asked by Vanity Fair and not someone actually currently living and working in Los Angeles Theate…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:34AMOn this date six years ago Bitter Lemons was born. You can read about how that happened here. This was my first post. Feeble, yes, and yet still relevant. This quote (yes I’m quoting m…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:12AMFunny how it happens to land just a day before our anniversary. Hmmm. Bitter Billy would be pleased. If he wasn’t a soulless icon… This homage to the Bard from the talented Louis…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:53PMShame on you! You bunch of heathens, rogues and ruffians you! You roughed poor Jimmy but good! The image of the LA Theater Community – or ANY theater community for that matter – …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:36PMTonight. She returns. Tonight I wish I was in New York. Tonight. And of course in this share-everything-news-as-it-happens world, I absolutely loved reading this as an actual “newsR…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:15PMGreat “essay’ by Downer Don over at LA Observed. This one is about the value of a good spoiler in a theater review. Check it: Theater is ephemeral. In LA, most productions are av…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:24PMJennifer K. Hugus of The Los Angeles Beat has an interesting “reviewing” style, sort of a “first person eye witness account” of the show she’s seen. Sometimes s…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMWhat I love most about this review is that although Rose clearly was not thrilled with this show, her review actually makes me want to go and see it. TASTE Rose Desena – The Los Angele…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:00AM“The sophisticated, snarky bon mots of Noel Coward floated up and got lost in the rafters of the Malibu Playhouse. At intermission the man sitting next to me asked how I liked the play…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMNow why can’t we have more sophisticated debate like this here at the Lemon? C’mon, people, kick it up a notch! If you missed the “news” you can read it here. And her…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:40PMApologies for all the technical problems over the last few days, LemonHeads. It appears we are back in business so comment away!
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:18PMChristian wanted to continue the conversation that he started here. So we let him. Why the Artistic Directors Alliance (TADA)?: An open letter to Doug Clayton From Christian Levatino I’…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:14PMNice to see the rare Sylvie Drake review out there, reminding us all exactly what a thoughtful, intelligence, nuanced review is supposed to be all about. Hat tip to Don Shirley for bringing …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:50PMErnest just imbues his reviews with such intellectual play that they almost always stand out. Another beauty. Oh. He also mentions the Lemon in this one so there’s that… DOCTOR A…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:47PMFirst review I’ve ever read by Jonathan Ross. I really like his writing. Dunno what else to say. It’s bright, it’s bold, it doesn’t condescend, kinda playful, but mos…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:43PM“Because good enough is the name of the game and with a couple of credits under your belt, no critic or discerning audience member will cry foul, such is the world we live in ripe with…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:00AM“Opening night for this show was interesting in one regard, half the house, literally half the house, was press. I haven’t seen such a cluster of critics and reviewers assembled f…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMAn Open Letter to Mr. Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair Magazine April 11, 2014 at 8:35pm Dear Graydon Carter, We are writing on behalf of the Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles (TPLLA) to…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:50PMNot that they needed to really, but this from their Facebook page not long ago: For The Record goes on the record to state that theater is alive and well in Los Angeles. For The Record was c…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:08PMHis name – the LA Theater fan – is Damaris Montalvo, and he ain’t a theater artist, just a fan and he had something to say about this whole Vanity Fair thing. The Boston C…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:14PMWell that was quick. Guess the LA Weekly can get its shit together when it needs to. Steven Leigh has jumped into the fray. I’m sure there will be others rolling along right behind him…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:57PMThis is a very interesting idea from the mind of Christian Levatino, Artistic Director of Gangbusters Theatre. What is it? Pretty simple really, organize all the actual artistic directors of…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:17PMAltar Boyz, presented by Chromolume at the Attic Theatre. Kinda funny in all its blissful cheesiness.
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMNo seriously. To task. And it’s really dumb. Just one giant turd of ignorance. he basically shat his pants with stupidity. And y’all have been taking him and his bosses to. fucki…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:40PMThis according to the Elvis of LA Theater, Bill Raden, working it out over there at Stage Rows ala Stage Raw. Check out this forward thrust: Here in Los Angeles, for example, where there is …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:54PMAndrea Orlic! And here is her design which will be gracing the cover of all the 2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival Guides: Hmmmm. Well it’s certainly bright and beautiful, eye catching and…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:11PMNice to see Gedaly re-emerging from his entrepreneurial endeavors to guide us participants to the Holy Graille of promotion and marketing. And he’s the guy to do it. Always a mainstay …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:54PMThere’s nothing else quite like it. Thanks for letting me be a part of the fun. Yes, that is me in the middle of all that wonderful writhing mass of humanity.
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