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Monday, December 8, 2014

Ebenezer: The Immersive We’ve Been Waiting For (REVIEW) by Noah J Nelson

If you haven’t been to New York to see Sleep No More or Then She Fell you’ve probably been wondering what the big deal is about immersive theatre. Maybe you’ve caught a few of the show…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:35PM

Monday, November 17, 2014

No Proscenium: What We Talk About When We Talk About Immersive (REVIEWS) by Noah J Nelson

In this edition of the No Proscenium column: reviews of RETROGRADE and A SILVER LINING and some thoughts on the i-word. It’s been a busy couple of months in the LA immersive theatre underg…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:51PM

Friday, October 10, 2014

In A Flash: Chalk Rep’s Mini Fest Hits DTLA (No Proscenium) by Noah J Nelson

Note: this is less of a formal review and more of a field report. Chalk Repertory Theatre, the theatre company behind this year’s site-specific Fool For Love and Lady Windamere’s Fan lau…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:30PM

Friday, September 19, 2014

Dedicated to Pushing the Boundaries: Live Arts Exchange Festival by Noah J Nelson

Performance Art comes in at a strange angle. Almost always conceptually driven, the field is wide open in a way that few other theatrically related crafts are. Craft isn’t the right term i…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:34PM

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

The Theatricians present a Dark, Dangerous World of Imaginary Friends: ‘Mr. Marmalade’ (REVIEW) by Noah J Nelson

The best thing about live theatre is that it is always in 3D. In the case of The Theatricians Theater Group’s production of Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade the three D’s are demented, deli…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:58PM

Friday, July 11, 2014

Travel Back ‘Into The Fog’ With Director Samantha Shay [Interview] by Noah J Nelson

One of the highlights of this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival was Source Material’s Into The Fog, a visually lyrical piece of physical theatre that manages to stir up a lot of e…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:35PM

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

No Proscenium Goes Into The Labyrinth ‘At An Appointed Time’ by Noah J Nelson

Last month an email popped up in the NoPro inbox from someone I’d never met, which is part of the fun of exploring the emerging LA immersive theatre scene. It wen a little something like t…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:32PM

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Ambitious Romeo Juliet & Reimagining Gets Its Wires Cross’d (Review) by Noah J Nelson

Star Cross’d just might wind up being the most frustrating production I’m going to take in at the Hollywood Fringe this year. The high concept: Romeo & Juliet as a dance-thea…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:00PM

No Proscenium at Hollywood Fringe: Notes on an Odyssey by Noah J Nelson

We’ll start this one with a disclosure: I was invited to see two prior workshop productions of Bike Odyssey LA, so what follows is not so much a review as my notes on its current form. I�…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:39PM

Monday, June 16, 2014

No Proscenium: Chalk Rep Ropes A Brilliant ‘Fool For Love’ (Review) by Noah J Nelson

It is early enough in the development of the movement that’s been labeled immersive theatre that what does and doesn’t qualify is still up for grabs. Even the terminology is in flux. Som…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:36PM

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Source Material Ventures ‘Into The Fog’ (Review) by Noah J Nelson

Inspired by the 1975 short film by Russian animator Yuri Norenstein, Source Material’s Into the Fog is a poetic movement theatre treat at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. Not a lit…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:44PM

Friday, June 13, 2014

Grrls Start Riot, Save World (Review) by Noah J Nelson

I’ve been tracking the Will Play For Food Theatre Group since the 2012 Hollywood Fringe and their production of The Nina Variations. It was then that I first became a fan of director Scot…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:46PM

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Blasphemy, Brilliance Bend Brains in ‘God of Abraham’ (Review) by Noah J Nelson

Halfway into the Theatricians’ God of Abraham I turned to my companion and said: “I’ve never seen sketch mindfuck before.” That’s the most succinct way I can describe this de…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:35PM

Lost Moon Radio Lets Down Their ‘Million Dollar Hair’ (Review) by Noah J Nelson

Lost Moon Radio has been a Hollywood Fringe mainstay from the beginning, bringing their blend of “dry comedy and wet rock & roll” to each festival. Throughout the rest of the year th…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:16PM

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

No Proscenium: A Trip To The Underworld, By Way of Irvine by Noah J Nelson

No Proscenium is an ongoing exploration of immersive theatre and interactive experiences. The No Proscenium newsletter curates immersive events in Southern California twice a month. Sign up …

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:10PM

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