409 stories by "Lemonmeter"
SWEET These engaging two hours should satisfy a niche audience of Coward fans. Coward is too often seen as a minor player in the firmament of artistic excellence, but don't believe it. He's …
SWEET It wouldn't be December at the Falcon Theater without the Troubadour Theater Company's latest holiday treat, and this year's The Snow QUEEN is not only one of their most entertaining e…
SWEET Directed by Bonnie Lythgoe, best known for her choreography and involvement in “So You Think You Can Dance,” she creates magic on the stage with actors of all ages who are …
SWEET Coward’s work enables virtuosos who possess technique that’s as polished as it is effortless to reach new heights. Lansbury might as well be flying across the Ahmanson stag…
BITTERSWEET Fofi's production would be much better if Lopes's predominately muted, one-dimensional interaction with his colorful amalgam of riders was instilled with more emotion and greater…
BITTER Although it dutifully mirrors Chekhov's plot in the soaring ambitions and earthbound struggles of present-day artistic types, what dooms this six-character reduction is its systematic…
SWEET Often called a "jewel from Broadway's Golden Age", "The Chance's" inspired revival provides audiences with a sweet little yuletide tale that makes a delightful Valentine to this festiv…
SWEET Tom Yewell’s study of the male experience isn’t necessarily the counterpart to Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues” that its obviated title suggests. Less pol…
SWEET And if Morrison Christmas sets out to recapitulate the death-rebirth cycle in its theatrical arc, its more profound achievement is to progressively remove the ironic quotation marks fr…
SWEET Director Papazian serves up a slick and delectable series of comic turns, and he has assembled a cast of 18 accomplished actors for the occasion. All of them acquit themselves with cha…
SWEET This OSF production at the Wallis may not have the star power of the screen version coming out on Christmas Day, but it has the buoyancy and complexity of feeling that have turned Sond…
SWEET But just as the critic Eric Bentley cautioned us when approaching Henrik Ibsen’s plays to “look for the ideas behind the ideas,” it’s important with Gilman to e…
SWEET In a swift hour, a dozen merry pranksters whirl and spin us through the classic tale of ghosts scaring the miser out of Ebenezer Scrooge. Singing and dancing to Denise Devin's baton, t…
SWEET Now the company has opened its final show of the season, "Oedipus," the classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles, and it is just as imaginative, just as outrageous, just as unusual as its pr…
SWEET Informative and engaging, this underappreciated chapter of our local history is portrayed with panache and grace. Philip Brandes – LA Times SWEET Under producer Ben Guillory's im…
SWEET A heartening reminder of the human capacity for valor, this beautifully underplayed production is all the more moving for its very ordinariness. F. Kathleen Foley – LA Times SWEE…
SWEET Indeed, the empathy, showmanship and craft on tap may just be the best match of historical figure and performing artist yet in this franchise, wholly attuned to a gratefully participat…
BITTERSWEET The script could stand a vigorous pruning, several performances are still wobbly and the set changes are noticeably time-consuming " yet this production, directed by Gary Imhoff,…
SWEET This play is a must see though, especially if you're in the mood for performing arts that breaks the stuffy dramatic mold. "Ubu the Sh*t" creates a casual atmosphere of laughs for a la…
SWEET Based on a concept by Sondheim and Julia McKenzie, the result is a clever celebration of the Master-Composer's most enigmatic works, taking its name from a tune featured in his 1984 hi…
SWEET “What the Butler Saw” represents Orton at his most sophisticatedly silly. It’s a play bursting with references to other plays, including even one of the greatest trag…
BITTERSWEET Overall, the show has its plusses and minuses, which can always be the case when any theater company takes on a challenging and very detailed period piece. It comes across in a v…
SWEET A high degree of skill and individuality accompanies “Takarazuka!!!” at East West Players. In its elegant West Coast premiere, Susan Soon He Stanton’s very promising …
SWEET Writers Matt Soson and Vika Stubblebine's witty, 90-minute intellectual thrill ride takes its 12-member audiences down a harrowing narrative rabbit hole. The show satirizes the convent…
BITTERSWEET The cast includes Zuleyka Silver as a pulchritudinous porn star wannabe, Sumiko Braun as her younger sister, and Rob Belushi as the porn producer whose dirty dealing triggers a c…
