409 stories by "Lemonmeter"
SWEET “The Old Woman” is, in the large scheme of the ever-escalating Wilson World, a road-show roundelay, theater as hit and run. It comes into town and is gone before you know i…
SWEET Although I tend to be skeptical about the power of any garment to effect lasting spiritual change, all those stilettos evidently tenderized me to a pulp: I drove home beaming, filled w…
SWEET Some of these stories " such as depictions of anorexia-bulimia, tumultuous pregnancies, abandonment and misogynistic violence " have been explored many times in television, movies and …
SWEET Itamar Moses's Completeness is chockfull of discourse about protein processes and algorithmic probabilities, and if, like myself, you're not of a scientific bent, you could drift off a…
SWEET In short: this piece is well performed and directed. Daniel Faigin – Observations Along the Road SWEET Through playwright Jason Odell Williams’ focus on comedy and director…
SWEET Don't let the gay bashing that is the pivotal event of Diana Son's Stop Kiss scare you away from its exciting Pasadena Playhouse debut. Under Seema Sueko's nuanced direction and with a…
SWEET In fact, this is a sweet and very funny coming-of-age tale, punctuated with sassy musical numbers and ferocious wit. And, yes, in the end there is a serial killing subplot, when a trio…
SWEET Rarely is one able to see a musical that can thrill an audience not in spite of a low budget… but because of it. There can be such an expectation for spectacle when seeing a musi…
SWEET Gordon's skewering of these three earnest, dopey Gen Y-ers is sharp and often quite witty. (One of Anikka's several businesses is making "kombucha cozies for orthodox Jewish women.") T…
BITTERSWEET The scene in Act 4 between the mad Lear and the blinded Gloucester doesn’t register the heartbreak of two men at the end of their lives searching for meaning in their abomi…
BITTERSWEET Kelegian’s dead-eyed determination ("I’m just not having a very good time, and I don’t have any reason to think it’ll get anything but worse") is the reas…
SWEET Cohn has a talent for aphorism, Morgenstern excels at pacing, and the facile cast keeps the laughs coming — a tactic that not only richly entertains but also obscures the play…
SWEET Queer Classics' The Importance Of Being Earnest gives us a world that Oscar Wilde could scarcely have conceived of in his Wildest dreams, and in so doing, Casey Kringlen and company gi…
BITTER If exuberance and good intentions were enough, Pope! might come closer to the epic experience predicted in its title. As it is, for this audience member, this one just didn't fly. Ell…
SWEET By the end of the play, we learn that much of the stories are embellishments " but at the center of it all, Edward is still the hero he claims to be. In fact, he is more the hero than …
SWEET Robert Beltran's staging is more clear than nuanced, approached with considerable competence and occasional flair. The cast wanders the stage in costume designer Abel Alvarado's tunics…
SWEET Some of the finest voices I've heard at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre along with Jason James' assured direction make for a first-rate Jekyll & Hyde out Claremont way, with Ja…
BITTER Director Jon Lawrence Rivera must bear some of the blame, as the staging emphasizes irrelevant and sometimes daffy gimmicks " images projected on upstage videoscreens, big gory rubber…
BITTERSWEET In a play about a man's bargain with the devil, either the man or the devil " but ideally both " should fascinate or intrigue, certainly more than they do here. Deborah Klugman &…
BITTERSWEET Though directors Price and JR Esposito prove far more self-assured with sci-fi than horror, their ungainly staging of the latter cannot fully obscure Macher's thought-provoking m…
SWEET The world premiere of the unauthorized parody musical “Scream!” at the Rockwell Table and Stage in Los Feliz includes a star studded cast and hilarious satirical humor, all…
BITTER “Zealot,” which has been directed by SCR artistic director Marc Masterson on a handsome office set designed by Ralph Funicello, has come off the Rebeck assembly line with …
BITTERSWEET The script could be further trimmed: the opening takes up more time than it needs to and Enrique's repeated hardships start to run together. For a story so grounded in grim reali…
SWEET With Troubies shows, revivals, and West Coast stagings of East Coast hits making up the bulk of its seasons, a Falcon Theatre World Premiere comedy achieves event status in our L.A. th…
SWEET The promise of the show’s opening number “Magic to Do” was lived up to with Houdini-esque virtuosity. “Pippin” was a show that inspired teens from the 197…
