Monday, March 24, 2014
SWEET Under the focused direction of Jeff Soroka, the superb cast relishes the material without ridiculing it. The hijinks that follow are treated with a sharpness that the script demands. C…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:40PMSWEET I left the Pacific production in Venice with the feeling that I had just seen a rich and complex tale unfold before my eyes. Don Shirley – LA Observed BITTER In theory, it’s a …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:19PMSaturday, March 22, 2014
SWEET Rubicon Theatre’s impassioned revival shows the mature O’Neill at the height of his powers — his arty experimental theater days behind him, masterfully employing classical fundam…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:33PMFriday, March 21, 2014
SWEET Velina Hasu Houston and Nathan Wang transport us to another time, another place, another world in their magical, mystical, marvelous new musical Cinnamon Girl, now playing at the Green…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:02PMBITTERSWEET Elijah Alexander as Macbeth and Willcox do suggest a lot of sexual passion in their early scenes, but at least at the performance I saw, Alexander’s vocal delivery sounded …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:33PMSWEET However, with South Coast Repertory’s Reunion, audiences will witness a powerful work which shows an incredible range of emotional complexity about revisiting one’s past, thanks to…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:59PMThursday, March 20, 2014
SWEET In her Opening Night remarks, International City Theatre artistic director desai referred to ICT’s ongoing efforts to reach out to a more ethnically diverse audience. Flyin’ West s…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:04PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
BITTERSWEET But the book and lyrics (by Doug Cooney) and the music (Lee Ahlin) lacked sophistication. The 75-minutes or so of the show had to cover too much terrain (emotional as well as phy…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:19AMMonday, March 17, 2014
SWEET But Pierce has caught the rhythms of teenage girl-speak, and Gray, a credentialed actress and University of Chicago student (no relation to this reviewer) revels in them. Her wonderful…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:32PMSWEET Eventually there was a revelation on many levels making this one of the most unique theatrical experiences in my more than half century of theatrical experiences. Go and watch this sho…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:56PMSWEET Manilow’s’ ‘Harmony’ pleases despite a few sour notes. Paul Hodgins – OC Register SWEET Its leitmotif is nothing less than the true nature of harmony, whi…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:21PMThursday, March 13, 2014
BITTER If all this is intended to suggest that we, the audience, are secondary to the performers’ self-absorption, point taken. Yet if Bonnell and his fellow bacchantes aim for a share…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:21PMTuesday, March 11, 2014
BITTER The underlying sadness and tragedy of how anyone may be so swept away by fantasy lacks essential power to bring the audience emotionally into the fray. Thomas’s feelings and com…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:59PMSunday, March 9, 2014
BITTERSWEET Although director Jon Lawrence Rivera keeps the polished production — with an appealing set by Jeff McLaughlin, projections by Adam Flemming and sound by Cricket S. Myers — c…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:40PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
SWEET The space, and its cute set, is entirely white. Audience members perch on low, white, wooden benches and there are little mats on the floor for kids to lounge on. The show is only 30 o…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:27PMSWEET While this musical parody may never reach the hilarious heights of the gold standard for this sort of japery, The Book of Mormon, confined as it is to a rather pedestrian target, this …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:54PMSWEET Now onstage at Crown City Theatre in NoHo, a superb ensemble of actors bring off The Foreigner with tremendous skill and gusto. Don Grigware – BroadwayWorld SWEET It is a treat f…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:52AMBITTERSWEET At fourteen songs, and one act that’s slightly less than an hour, this is more a cabaret performance than a musical. It has a skeletal plot: In Las Vegas, Duran (Ross Golan) a …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:04AMFriday, March 7, 2014
SWEET Now in a new revival well paced by director Larry Eisenberg, Group rep’s actors don the international robes and dish out the divergent flavors with some style and flair. Don Grig…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:46PMSWEET Silberman, Madera and Foster are to be commended for their ability to share these men first as suited and somewhat upstanding citizens and then take us with them as they sink into the …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:18PMSWEET All in all, A Nice Indian Boy is a nice way to spend an evening. G. Bruce Smith – Stage and Cinema SWEET Playwright Madhuri Shekar puts a fresh, multicultural, same-sex spin on…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:53PMSWEET Wendy Graf brings the audience a complicated script that deals with a lot more than 9/11 and its catastrophe. Father and daughter relationships and disappointment are just as important…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:34AMThursday, March 6, 2014
SWEET The director works her excellent actors to technical precision in timing and physicality, and they more than meet her energy. They improve on an already thrilling script, which of cour…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:12PMBITTERSWEET The result is an uncharacteristically tame production, one that left me time to ponder the awkward politics of an overwhelmingly white ensemble horsing around with cultural caric…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:32PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
SWEET The play isn’t an undiluted screed on behalf of unfettered art; it depicts the pain Asher’s parents undergo when they become the unwitting subjects of his masterpiece ̵…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:08AMTuesday, March 4, 2014
SWEET Overall it’s a delightful revival. If the darker nuances at times threaten the cascading hilarity, that won’t prohibit the enjoyment of so swankly appointed, proficiently acted…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:29PMMonday, March 3, 2014
SWEET Having attended Actors Co-op productions regularly for over fifteen years now, I can declare without equivocation that there is no finer company of actors, directors, and designers in …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:34PMSWEET Carmilla is a deliciously seductive fare, one that will give you nocturnal visions, perhaps even a nightmare… Spencer Cotter – The_Detective SWEET While I myself felt that a bi…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:06PMBITTERSWEET A full-throttle Whitefire Theatre revival revs “The Trip Back Down” up for a new spin, but unfortunately doesn’t restore John Bishop’s dated 1975 NASCAR-themed drama to s…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:30PMSWEET That said, Beyer’s crisply assured staging hits its marks with precision and skillful comic timing. The production is full of enjoyable, if disturbing surprises, mainly having to do …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:37PMSWEET The Odyssey has done a terrific job with this production. Adam Flemming’s set, consisting simply of two chairs and three screens upon which evocative images are projected, places the…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:14PM 
