If you haven’t heard yet, the denizens of Zombie Joe’s Underground will be hosting the upcoming 35th Annual LA Weekly Awards (their last?) on Monday, April 7th at LA Exchange. T…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:44PMYes we know. No, really, we know. We are painfully aware that our site creaks like a tired old train sometimes. Painfully aware. Imagine writing for a site that often just says, “No, n…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:36PMAnd it’s a good one recently published over at Howlround. As someone who has been making theater in this town for almost a quarter century, Stephen’s eye witness accounting is bo…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:00PMStill not a huge fan of the sort of ghost element that Stage Raw and some other re-designed sites have employed, how different layers exist on top of each other in various forms of transpare…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:38AMSon of Semele Ensemble are one of the jewels of theater in Los Angeles, not just because of their risky, highly-imaginative work that they create themselves, but also because they provide am…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:29AMA Bitter Lemons’ favorite, Lost Moon Radio, is setting up shop again in a new episode/show entitled: Lost Moon Radio Gets a Job. If you’ve never seen these guys do yourself a fav…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:52PMI know I’m just repeating myself, I realize that, but I just don’t understand how the supposed “Los Angeles Critical Body of Note”, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circ…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:46AMThis is either going to be incredibly boring or incredibly interesting. Here’s hoping for the latter. They are calling it The Perfect Game. As a tryout for their Fringe Project, David …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:04PMThis is – as always – a top notch review from Ernest, but what I like most about it is this sort of “side bar” he takes in the middle of it to basically “dress …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:44PM“In the performing arts, there’s no such thing as a “definitive” interpretation. Even an interpretation that deliberately departs from the express directions of the c…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:34PMThis is pretty interesting. Was guided to this through George Hunka’s online journal Superfluities Redux. I couldn’t really locate the original post on Critical Stages, but this …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:54PMThough the show has now closed, Wooster Group’s production of Cry, Trojans! at REDCAT continues to be provoking anger and ire for their use of “red face” in the production…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:19PMWith fireworks I’m sure. Here’s the link to the still in-construction site. Looks pretty cool. Here’s the obligatory mission statement currently on the site: Using multimed…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:55PMNot according to playwright Mike Lew as described in this fascinating post he wrote last month entitled Arts Education Won’t Save Us from Boring, Inaccessible Theater. Mike’s th…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:46AMThis was a very cool idea last year which makes it even cooler this year, mostly because there are some $$$$’s attached to this year’s winner. $799 smackaroonies to be exact plus…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:22PMI have to say Paul Birchall has been flourishing – in my humble opinion – since he’s been writing for Stage and Cinema. He’s been a longtime critic in this town, writ…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:12PM“Rather than 3½ weeks, Five Small Fires has been in gestation for three full years. In terms of its process and artistic ambition, the distance from the Bootleg to the Mark Taper Foru…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:12AMWell it’s not because the show appears to be decidedly mediocre according to our LemonMeter Rating. Nope. It’s because a whole bunch of folks find this production’s use of …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:34PMFor the most part, theater remains an ephemeral art form, the show is there and if you miss it, it’s gone. You snooze you lose and that’s the end of that. But the beauty of Zombi…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:24PMAha. I knew it. You all thought I was mad. About the death of the intermission. Well Mark Lawson of The Guardian makes my point in explaining the growing trend of “early exits” i…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:26AMThe prettiest mind in theater, our own (one time) AdvoK@ and now the sultriest voice in pop, Kat Primeau, and her dude Chris Sousa have a new album out under the name Sumeau. Got a chance to…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:22PMOne year ago today my father Major General John Henderson Mitchell shook of his mortal coil and took up command of the Armies of Angels in Heaven. To honor his memory I republish the eulogy …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:19AMJoel Beers is quickly becoming one of my favorite SoCal theater critics. Here’s another example why. Joel, you wanna write for the Lemon? Hit me up! LYSISTRATA JONES Joel Beers –…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AM“But even with the talent, hard work and sincerity, nothing can save the laughably awful story, generic music or emaciated characters. This is a developmentally disabled Hoosiers meets…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:04AMErnest really likes Firemen currently playing at the Atwater Village Theatre. So did I. But as usual – especially when he’s feeling good about something – he lays it all do…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:36PMJust read what is BY FAR the best – and perhaps the ONLY work – on the crisis of criticism that Chuck has ever written. And you should too. The article is entitled: A ‘gre…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:06PMWondering why my Alma Mater Seattle University’s state-of-the-art Lee Center for the Performing Arts ain’t on the list. Recount! Some nice ones on here though. This one at Bard C…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:43PMHere they be, LemonHeads, the 2014 LA Weekly Award Nominees. A special shout out to Myron Meisel of the Hollywood Reporter for his Excellence in Criticism Award. We should probably do someth…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:04PMThe Giddy Roar. THE UGLY ONE Jason Rohrer – Stage and Cinema RICH AND BEAUTIFUL I like a play that vacuums the audience in the wake of its rocket so that we tumble after, happy travele…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:01PMThere’s no doubt my personal penchant for theater resides with the minimalist school. My favorite show so far this year – until last night – was Barry McGovern’s phen…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:52PM“I’ve found that at least once a year there is a show that is loved and lauded by public and critics alike, a play that garners awards and big box office, and yet bafflingly leav…
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