Friday, August 8, 2014
SWEET There’s a lot to enjoy in this romantic comedy and it’s a show you might just fall in love with. Sandro Monetti – Thespian Thoughts BITTER It’s all been done before, and no…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:31PMThursday, August 7, 2014
SWEET The play, which is about the world’s largest mammal, is powerful, and boasts an unsettling performance. It’s an adaptation of Heathcote Williams’s 15-part long poem about the ele…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:43PMSWEET Cat Fight works, as only theatre can. It reaches into its subject, and into us, deeply. And it delivers so much of womanhood’s “infinite variety” that once you’ve seen it — w…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:02PMBITTERSWEET The Inkwell Theatre presents a talented cast in its world premiere of Louise Munson’s “Luigi,” a two-and-a-half-hour tale of a family’s (most likely last) get-together wi…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:44PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
SWEET Lelliott’s earnest interpretation has a fine continuity of theme. It could use a similar consistency of mood, or a greater investment in the occasional departures from tone. But ulti…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:39PMSWEET Lively and electrified by its talented, winsome lead actors, the admirable production has just been extended for additional performances in its Anaheim Hills home through August 8̵…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:54PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
SWEET Wicked without being unnecessarily cruel, Buyer and Cellar takes jabs at the cult of celebrity while reminding us why we’re so fascinated by it in the first place. Streisand’s ecce…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:37PMSWEET Still, “Savages” is a ribald, intelligent and promising new work. Adventurous playgoers and/or fans of premium cable fare will likely embrace it. David C. Nichols – LA Times …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:31PMSWEET The show is worth seeing if you are in the mood for a light comedy. Daniel Faigin – Observations Along the Road SWEET It is hilarious, disturbing, superbly written and immediatel…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:28PMMonday, July 21, 2014
BITTER Undemanding playgoers may well find the proficient performances ample reason to go, but this “Duet” doesn’t exactly sing. David C. Nichols – LA Times SWEET Watching Flower…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:14PMFriday, July 18, 2014
SWEET This is a show that deals squarely with many of the darkest human issues as well as the unique qualities of the ancient Greek Gods. It is absolutely not a musical nor a comedy, it is a…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:56PMSWEET The battle over Oshoosi’s fate plays out with thrilling immediacy in this staging by Shirley Jo Finney, who also directed “In the Red and Brown Water” at the Fountain. She is…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:07PMThursday, July 17, 2014
SWEET John Perrin Flynn and Brenda Davidson’s production of Penelope is so vivid that it’s hard for me to imagine the play in any other presentation – even though I’ve recently seen …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:48PMSWEET The reason you need to stop and buy tickets now – is it closes July 27th and the rest of this ensemble cast is remarkable. Throw in the fact that it’s beautifully designed …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:23PMSWEET And yet I thoroughly enjoyed the mood I was in after the play. Dramatic issues aside, for at least one member of the demographic at whom the Rabbit Hole-esque drama seems to aim, it’…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:48PMFriday, June 20, 2014
SWEET Despite his mannerisms, Mitchell gives an entertaining performance and the story itself, while scattered, is vividly told. Pauline Adamek – Stage Raw SWEET I’d never heard Van …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:48PMThursday, June 12, 2014
SWEET Part of what makes this show such a rollicking good time is this juxtaposition of good-natured silliness with the political commentary in Valcq’s clever lyrics. Executing ludicro…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:37PMBITTERSWEET This play is full of surrogates, which has the potential to be fascinating. Where this play could grow is in the area of real. All the seedlings aren’t fully cultivated. All th…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:32PMWednesday, June 4, 2014
SWEET After Dominique Serrand’s jaw-droppingly juicy and insanely inventive production of Molière’s Tartuffe, a South Coast Rep patron was heard to say, “Well, I don’t know if I can…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:55AMTuesday, June 3, 2014
BITTER A quartet of stellar performers, a gifted composer/musical director, and L.A.’s costume designer du jour at his most over-the-top fabulous can’t, unfortunately, save the Oscar Wil…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:50PMSWEET With the imaginative and skillful directorial hand of Larry Biederman and a marvelous ensemble cast, Birnbaum’s play represents one of the best theater events to grace Los Angele…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:55PMSaturday, May 31, 2014
BITTER The new play Hit by Alice Tuan, currently playing Los Angeles Theatre Center, unevenly shifts from hard-hitting drama to black comedy to avant-garde theater yet never makes clear its …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:07PMBITTER If you’re going to update a classic work, ask why. If its themes resonate with you, and remind you of contemporary issues, do you really need to rewrite the thing? Mightn’t that c…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:41PMSWEET It is smart, suspenseful, surprising, downright sensational writing, and with DeLorenzo in the director’s chair and a superb cast giving it added layers and depth, it makes for a pla…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:08PMThursday, May 29, 2014
SWEET In playing children, teenagers and young adults, both Fleischer and Willcox have authenticity and honesty cemented in their every glance, every wry gesture, every word that’s sai…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:03AMSWEET But it is Molnar’s ability to turn larger-than-life circumstances and situations into everyday happenings that not only touch, but illuminate and inspire that makes this play the joy…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:04AMSWEET It is an insightful and soulful piece about three characters meshed together in the filmmaking business whose ideas of life and spiritual beliefs clash during their business stay on an…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:31AMMonday, May 26, 2014
SWEET But it’s all so well done and fun that it wins the audience over and will send you toe tapping into the heat outside with a song in your heart and a smile on your face. Sandro Monett…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:00AMSaturday, May 24, 2014
BITTERSWEET In the case of “different words,” the ghost finally learns, as part of the climax, exactly how she died. Unfortunately, this is the weakest moment of an otherwise fin…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:13PMFriday, May 23, 2014
SWEET Trevor Biship’s Chance Theater staging, the show’s Orange County premiere, is up to the task, creating the kind of epic production that stuns upon first viewing and provokes though…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:01PMWednesday, May 21, 2014
SWEET By embracing rather than avoiding the conventional contours of Richard Alfieri’s international hit two-hander about an imposing Florida retiree and a salty-tongued dance instruct…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:05PM 
