409 stories by "Lemonmeter"
SWEET Three years ago, also with the help of Estienne and Krawczyk, Brook reduced Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” down to its ritualistic essences, removing the magic and retain…
BITTER Judging by the pervasive silence during the performance, the rest of the audience apparently didn't get what was being said, either. Whether it was the accents or the acoustics or the…
BITTERSWEET Performances from the strong 11-member company are first rate, and Sossi directs his cast to play the lengthy, absurdist drama for maximum laughs. Yet there is a dark and disturb…
BITTERSWEET The jazz is delicious, many songs are delightful, but the entire show would have been better without the intrusive and distracting plots. John Farrell – Random Lengths SWEE…
BITTERSWEET Beck’s decision to make Anna’s affliction an anthropomorphic one – a handsome devilish specter (Jack Millard), visible only to her, is responsible for her pain …
SWEET This prolific dramatist’s latest play, which is having its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in a finely acted production directed by Martin Benson, put me in mind of the A…
SWEET The ANW cast members inhabit their 1950 characters with stunning authenticity. G. Bruce Smith – Stage and Cinema SWEET Fortunately, the current revival of Inge's 1950 drama "Come…
BITTERSWEET Still, the production, by War Horse director Tom Morris, is surprisingly uninvolving. The main quartet of lovers and their foibles feel too separate from the puppet business, a b…
BITTERSWEET The production now playing at Cabrillo Music Theatre in Thousand Oaks, which is, for all intents and purposes, a regional replica of the Broadway show (the director and a large c…
SWEET Indeed, this delicately potent West Coast premiere, a co-production between the Falcon and Chicago's Tony-winning Lookingglass Theatre Company, often seems to be composing itself befor…
SWEET Ultimately, this is a literate and entertaining examination of a vital period in our history, told with wit, humor, and perspicacity, and acted with skill. And director Bjorn Johnson k…
SWEET This is the show to see in Los Angeles, and the continuing success of its cast and creators is well-deserved. Bravo Kevin P. Taft – Frontiers SWEET For The Record: Tarantino brin…
SWEET From its striking opening tableau, to its full-cast musical prologue, "The Ballad Of Floyd Collins," accompanied by teenaged balladeer Jewell Estes (Matt Magnusson) on guitar, to our f…
BITTERSWEET Based on the true story of Dr. John Fryer, the Philadelphia psychiatrist who bravely came out at the Association's Philadelphia conference in 1972, Doctor Anonymous is a well-int…
SWEET Clark is smart to envision a near-future, fear-based world that's taken its cue from the chilling rash of school shootings that have occurred over the past decade or so"even if Quinn, …
SWEET Happily, director Carly Weckstein's accomplished studio revival of the play (abetted by William Herder's nicely emblematic scenic design) does come as a potent reminder of just what de…
SWEET The look of the play was truly excellent. Paterno skillfully acted as de-evolved Seymour, which, combined with his monkey makeover, was pretty disturbing. Yet convincing! The audience …
SWEET So hurry on down to Candlelight Pavilion for a true treat and enjoy a good meal and great show. Robert Machray – Stagehappenings SWEET The songs are all Gershwin, the dancing is …
SWEET Throughout, the beige-clad and slight grubby (!) performers move, sway, declaim, sing and either perform percussion or play musical instruments"all in a deftly choreographed and pleasi…
SWEET Director Gloria Gifford, with a cast of over twenty artists allowed each performance to be distinctive. At no time was there a moment when the attention was not exactly where she inten…
SWEET L.A. Deli is a therapeutic 12 Sketch Program for show business habitués trying to break the cycle of rejection and self-delusion. Industry predators and their preyed-upon square off a…
BITTERSWEET The least effective scene is an unnecessarily thorough reenactment of Robeson's appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, with Smith asking the questions from…
SWEET It is a solid example of the Modernist movement in literature, and of high-stakes drama that is surprisingly still relevant and as wildly entertaining today as it must have been in 193…
BITTERSWEET Staging this play was no easy task for Santa Monica Rep’s Director Jan Bloom, who has chosen to present it with the audience seated on either side, like at a tennis match (…
SWEET Riotously written, and maniacally directed by Jeff Gould … this x-rated adult comedy is outrageously funny! Pat Taylor – Tolucan Times SWEET This play is the third in a series …
