409 stories by "Lemonmeter"
SWEET 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 …
SWEET 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…
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…
BITTERSWEET 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…
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 ̵…
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 a…
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 …
SWEET 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…
BITTERSWEET 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 street-le…
SWEET 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 wi…
SWEET 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 f…
SWEET It’s an absolutely beguiling production, psychologically simple but stylistically as rich as a tapestry. Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly SWEET If you love the movie (and wh…
SWEET At worst, Shakespeare can bore a roomful of kids to disruption, texting and gossiping and running in the aisles. But the Porters held a predominantly female, under-18 audience in the p…
SWEET With quick-witted writing and a high-octane cast, OSD is the perfect nighttime outing for Angelenos in need of a comic escape. P.P. – LATF SWEET With the Winter Olympics upon us,…
SWEET Adam Rapp's hypnotic, intricately written elegy for the fallout from an unimaginable family tragedy receives a resolute production, in which noted Belgian actor George Regout makes an …
SWEET Although the plot is nearly as implausible as this bald synopsis implies, and although in another play Miss Edwards' behavior might invite a lawsuit, neither concern, somehow, is obtru…
BITTER A play about a murderous French poet, told by a troupe of vaudevillian-style actors, seems it would be enough to spark some interest in an audience, but unfortunately Murray Mednick's…
SWEET The ancient Greeks liked bawdy innuendo, and this play capitalizes on that with animated songs and bump-and-grind choreography by Kelly Todd. Performing on the larger stage of the new …
SWEET Buoyed by an excellent production design, particularly Bill Froggatt’s haunting sound, director Howard Teichman and a crackling cast render a near-optimum staging. F. Kathleen Fo…
SWEET An outstanding production of Inherit the Wind is being presented by Wasatch Theatre Ventures, under the judicious direction of Kiff Scholl with an absolutely marvelous cast that gives …
SWEET This scorching drama is not for the faint of heart, but for those who prefer their live theater edgy, imaginative, and adventurous – a Sacred Fools house specialty. Ed Rampell &#…
SWEET Director Chris Fields’ stylishly sleight-of-hand staging (eloquently accented by Matt Richter’s dynamic lights) and a disarmingly appealing ensemble (including Amanda Saund…
SWEET The show, directed by David Hyde Pierce following Nicholas Martin’s Broadway staging, opened at the Mark Taper Forum on Sunday in tiptop shape. Indeed, you can mark this down as …
SWEET The Tony award-winning Broadway stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s famous film, THE 39 STEPS, is being presented as a slapstick romp through film noir at the Norris Center fo…
SWEET Unencumbered by extraneous cerebral ballast, Frayn's romp revels in slapstick and stereotype, both capably executed by a nine-member ensemble in which no particular performances outshi…
