647 stories by "Colin Mitchell"
Was directed to this article at LA Stage Times by Don Shirley (thanks, Don!) and it’s more bad news. Longtime LA theater company Company of Angeles has been served their eviction notic…
Bam! That’s all I gotta say. Bam! Go see this. Just…go see this. My favorites show of last year’s Fringe and our BLOAT (Bitter Lemons Outrageous Award for Theater) Winner. …
Below is the very detailed official presser/plea on this bold new project, as forged by Steven, David Elzer, Michael Seel and the Pasadena Arts Council. I’m still not sold on whether o…
Come one, come all. It’s going to be a fun evening. Thanks so much to John Flynn and Rogue Machine for hosting the event. And yes indeedy, you read right, the great Ed Asner has agreed…
Pauline Adamek makes the call at TimeOut LA, here are the Los Angeles Theater Companies she’s going to be paying attention to in 2014: Celebration Theatre Casa 0101 Hollywood Fri…
I’ve decided that Randall Gray is good for Los Angeles Theater. Every vibrant community needs a Randall Gray. But what I like even more is how people react to the Theater of Randall Gr…
“Focused performances limit undue dwelling on what exactly the foxes are intended to represent. Director Dámaso Rodriguez effectively balances King's fanciful, open-ended allegory w…
A teaser for Furious Theatre’s latest offering, Foxfinder, currently playing at the Carrie Hamilton in Pasadena and apparently getting very good reviews. I wouldn’t know though a…
Tony the Frank all happy and gushing. It’s a pleasant exception when it happens, not unlike his colleague at Stage and Cinema, Jason Rohrer. I can concur with Tony on this one, this is…
That is of course according to the Broadway League and highlighted in this LA Times piece from David Ng. Here’s the meat of the matter: The study, released Thursday by the Broadway Lea…
Though I found this to be an interesting offering from A-Burn over at his KCRW site  - and I’m pretty sure I know what he’s TRYING to say – I’m still not exactl…
You heard right, LemonHeads. We are opening up a can of limerick and giving you guys full rein to mock, praise and heap large mounds of naughtiness upon our humble heads. And the person who …
And yet ANOTHER best of Los Angeles Theater list for 2013. This is from one of the newest LADCC members, Jon Magaril of CurtainUp. It includes a lot of familiar productions that we’ve …
If you’re name is on the list below WE NEED YOUR MAILING ADDRESS so we can send out all the cool Kickstarter swag that you earned for supporting Operation LemonHeadMeter. We’ve t…
Okay, LemonHeads, for all you dweebs who failed to catch the best show of 2013 (in my humble opinion and pretty much everyone else’s) – that would be 24th Street Theatre’s …
And yet another end of year Awards/Honors List to bring to your attention. This from the review site ArtsInLA and voted on by their illustrious group of Los Angeles theater critics, which in…
The new teaser trailer for the return engagement of Gangbuster Theatre’s excellent Sunny Afternoon, running January 10 through February 1, 2014. All told in under a minute. Well done, …
And even if they did, what could they really do about it? What am I talking about? Well I’m glad you asked. Far be it from us to spread gossip – unless of course it’s gener…
And yet another list of LA Theater’s Best. This one is from Frontiers. Many thanks to Christopher Cappiello for sending this over. I’m happy to see people being creative with …
The future’s so bright we gotta wear shades. So many new things will be happening in 2014, site re-design, the LemonHeadMeter, smartphone app, and much much more. If you haven’t …
Jason the Roar, a frequent contributor here at the Lemon, does all his reviewing over at Stage and Cinema and he has decided to roll out his favorites in LA Theater 2013 this year. JasonR…
I don’t see as much of Brad Schreiber’s criticism these days since Backstage folded, and frankly, HuffPost, for me, is almost as awful to circum-navigate as LA Examiner, just …