Clear Your Afternoon, LemonHeads, the 2013-2014 StageSceneLA Scenie Award Winners Have Been Announced! by Colin Mitchell

No. Really. The whole afternoon. And potentially the better part of the evening. You’re going to need all of it to read through them all. Here’s my favorite snippet from th…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 4:32pm on September 16, 2014☆⚑

COCK: 100% " SWEET by Colin Mitchell

SWEET The ideal convergence of Mike Bartlett’s incredibly realistic script vividly emoted by the very talented four member cast, as tightly directed by Cameron Watson, make for a total…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 4:17pm on September 16, 2014☆⚑

Downer Don Shirley Once Again Takes CTG to the Wood Shed for its Lack of LA-centric Programming by Colin Mitchell

And rightly so. Don says it all so much better than me or you: Once upon a time, CTG’s website vowed to produce programming that “reflects and informs our own community” th…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 2:32pm on September 15, 2014☆⚑

What's Missing from TPLLA-Intimate's Announcement about Contract Negotiations with the SDC and USA Unions? by Colin Mitchell

Not even a jot of a mention about AEA. You remember them? Actors Equity Association? Union of Professional Stage Actors? The Union that basically presides – by default – ov…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 1:55pm on September 15, 2014☆⚑

Critique of the Week by Colin Mitchell

I was remiss in not including this in one of our COWs in August. I am rectifying that remissiveness (is that a word?(It is now!). When Ernest gets his dander up it’s awfully dandy to b…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00am on September 14, 2014☆⚑

Critique of the Week " Runner Up by Colin Mitchell

This one drips with context and pulses with Tony’s own personality through and through. Nice to see him back to his old ways. Some of his latest offerings have seemed a bit like throw-…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 9:00am on September 14, 2014☆⚑

The Friday Feature by Colin Mitchell

Haven’t posted one of these in a while, but this is a pretty tasty trailer for what might be a pretty tasty show. Deaf West’s Spring Awakening, opening this weekend.

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:33am on September 13, 2014☆⚑

"The Western Unscripted": The Impressively Improbable Improvisation of Impro Theatre by Colin Mitchell

“Would I do that to my horse?” A line pulled from the ether of an actor’s imagination, forged like hammer blows on the anvils of colliding moments that came before, inte…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 4:32pm on September 12, 2014☆⚑

The 10 Most Influential Theater Productions You've Ever Seen by Colin Mitchell

I saw someone list this somewhere the other day – was probably that brain drain Facebook – and thought it might be fun to try and do it for myself. These would be the productions…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:35am on September 11, 2014☆⚑

Steven Leigh Morris Chimes in on the 99 Seat Plan Rumblings: "Excellence may well derive from hardship, but it also derives from opportunity." by Colin Mitchell

As usual Uncle Steven has much to say on the state of LA’s 99 Seat Plan. And as always we should sit up and take notice from this LA Theater historian who has been writing reviews pret…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 6:45pm on September 9, 2014☆⚑

In Honor of My Father: Major General John Henderson Mitchell: 1933-2013 by Colin Mitchell

My father would have been 81 today. He passed away last year, March 3rd, 2013. He is now buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. To honor him I re-post the eulogy I wrote and d…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00am on September 9, 2014☆⚑

Create an #LAThtr Brand Logo and Win Free Advertising on the Lemon by Colin Mitchell

Okay, LemonHeads, you ready for this one? Create the best #LAThtr brand logo, gain fame, immortality, and free advertising at Bitter Lemons. Boom. Obviously a brand is only as good as its pr…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 9:56pm on September 8, 2014☆⚑

What does NYC, SF and LA have in Common? An Equity Approved 99 Seat Theater Plan by Colin Mitchell

I guess I always knew this, having worked as a professional actor in all three of these cities, on Broadway, Off-Bway, Off-Off-Bway, freakin’ Park Slope in the NYC, in the Tenderloin, …

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 7:24pm on September 8, 2014☆⚑

Critique of the Week by Colin Mitchell

Some more “hurtful” and “biased” criticism from Tony the Frank, from that “nasty” and “vicious” review site, Stage and Cinema. And yeah, this …

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 4:46pm on September 7, 2014☆⚑

Critique of the Week " Runner Up by Colin Mitchell

The next in the triad of this week’s COWs from Stage and Cinema. Tony the Frank enjoying a show, almost by surprise. This one is a bit sleight – as far as Tony the Frank offer…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 4:38pm on September 7, 2014☆⚑

Critique of the Week " Runner Runner Up by Colin Mitchell

This week’s COWs all come from that “hurtful” review site, Stage and Cinema, featuring those “biased” critics Jason Rohrer and Tony Frankel, and the reasonin…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 4:30pm on September 7, 2014☆⚑

KCRW's Anthony Byrnes on the Economic Realities of LA's 99 Seat Plan by Colin Mitchell

More Sturm und Drang on that old 99 Seat Plan, this time from T-Burn over at KCRW. Here’s the meat of his matter: What’s missing from this dialogue is the broader point and ec…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 7:21pm on September 4, 2014☆⚑

FRESH PRODUCE'd LA is seeking a Director for our Inaugural Full-length Production by Colin Mitchell

FRESH PRODUCE’d LA is seeking a Director for our Inaugural Full-length Production: “Hey Brother” Written by – Bekah Brunstetter Hey Brother – In this story of b…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 3:24pm on September 2, 2014☆⚑

Rob Weinert-Kendt on the 99 Seat Plan: "The cost of failure is often too small to be instructive at all." by Colin Mitchell

Granted, Senior Editor at American Theatre Magazine, Rob Weinert-Kendt, wrote the above quote back in 2003 at an LA Stage Alliacne SRO conference, but pivoting off a Bitter lemons article wr…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 6:49pm on August 29, 2014☆⚑

Ford Theatre Set for Some Upgrades by Colin Mitchell

Don Shirley beat me to the punch on this one. The Ford Theater is about to become even cooler than it already is if all this upgrade and renovation talk is true. Here’s Don: For decade…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 6:51pm on August 26, 2014☆⚑

The Debt Sentence by Colin Mitchell

David Svengalis guided me to an interesting article over at American Theatre – thanks David! – by Diep Tran entitled Debt Sentence. It’s all about the debt incurred by thea…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 6:40pm on August 26, 2014☆⚑

The 99 Seat Theater War is Upon Us by Colin Mitchell

Has been for a while really, but it does seem like it’s coming to a head these days. Case in point, the very detailed and divergent conversation currently occurring at the BigCheap The…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 9:08pm on August 25, 2014☆⚑

DJ Kurs and his Spring Awakening " By Dale Reynolds by Colin Mitchell

The tireless Dale Reynolds from Stagehappenings decided to get down and dirty with Deaf West’s head honcho, DJ Kurs, and he asked if we might share the offering with the LemonHeadNatio…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 1:25pm on August 25, 2014☆⚑

Critique of the Week by Colin Mitchell

What the hell is a “representative outing”? What does that mean? What am I supposed to glean from that phrase? Maybe you can sort it out, LemonHeads, but for me, this is yet agai…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00am on August 24, 2014☆⚑

Latest Born Ready Podcast: Duncan Wold on Music and Art by Colin Mitchell

And yet another installment from those Bad Boys by the Bay sometimes known as Born Ready. Here’s their blurb for this latest episode: Welcome to the ninth installment of Born Ready! Th…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 5:08pm on August 20, 2014☆⚑