Tuesday, March 3, 2015
I'm coming in with my hands over my head, okay? I'm not wearing a wire. I'm not carrying a weapon. I have credentials: I ran a nonprofit theater company here in Los Angeles for several years…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 1, 2015
I think Birdman might end up as my all-time favorite theater movie (not to mention my 17th favorite rapper). I know, I know. Cool your jets. I don’t take such pronouncements lightly an…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that NBC has chosen to draw their water from this particular, theatrical well. In conceiving of these live, musical broadcasts of theirs, the networ…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Los Angeles theater is currently lost in a messy argument about how exactly it should divide up its income, an argument I couldn’t dive into even if I wanted and, really, if you spend …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Among the many reasons to find Variety a reliably goofy read is its decision to group its theatre reviews and news under the header, "Legit." This never ceases to amuse me. It feels like par…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:59PM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2014
Conceptually at least, virtual reality has been around for a long time. I myself grew up on the mid-90s vision of it best depicted in Aerosmith's "Amazing" music video and the Denzel/Russell…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:28AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
Breaking news, guys. I don’t know what finally gave it away"the giant, elaborately designed pieces of mechanized art or the thousands of people walking around dressed primarily …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2014
On April Fool's Day, 1990, 67,678 people paid to enter Toronto's brand-new Skydome stadium to watch a succession of men in their underwear pretend to fight. Even more stupendously, a half mi…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2014
The most popular form of live performance in this country is professional sports. This means that our conception of performance is shaped around competition, and the notion that an enacted s…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2014
A behind-the-scenes factoid to open up our Final Four coverage: I initially planned for How I Learned To Drive to win this tournament. I know!! Whoa!!! This passed quickly though once I real…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2014
Welcome to the second round, everyone. Glad you could join us on this beautiful day for theatrical bloodsport! A quick note of congratulations before we get to it goes out to Annie Baker for…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Yeah, we're not screwing around here. America's most relevant play, specifically of the last twenty years. You see, twenty years ago, Angels in America closed on Broadway. Now that play was …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:28PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2014
H.G. Wells' classic tale of alien invasion and imperial paranoia, The War of the Worlds, was first published in serialized form in 1897. It was then made historic in 1938 when Orson Welle…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
"Pageantry" is a fun word to say. Something about the big, opening "Paah" sliding down pleasantly into the bouncy "-gin" and then the slightly elongated "-tree" makes it sound extra plummy a…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
There’s a certain kind of live entertainment that has stayed reliably popular pretty much since the dawn of man. People like to party. They like to go to parties. From time to time, th…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:23PM[SHARE] 
