409 stories by "Lemonmeter"
BITTERSWEET The drawbacks of this musical’s backward-glancing manner are most notable in Martin’s book, which is often floridly melodramatic. The action takes place just after th…
BITTERSWEET “This is the void where you make sense of your life,” says Michael when he realizes that he is in a holding pattern. That statement could also be applied to the stage…
SWEET The play ends with the most in-the-head character, Katha, still questioning the reality of her newfound faux world. And, in another masterful stroke by Harrison, backed by director Mar…
SWEET The dilemmas facing the life-battered protagonist of "Good People" are perhaps strategically manipulated, but that doesn't make them any less relevant, humorous or dramatically engross…
BITTERSWEET The cast " Pedersen, Lord, Kulinska, Huff, Uhebe and Tepper " are all experienced actors and performed appropriately. I found Eisenberg's direction to be slow, as if the audience…
SWEET Sick of this accursed heatwave? Longing for the thrills and chills of the Halloween season to commence? No need to pray to the Great Old Ones, just slither on down to the little theate…
SWEET Ultimately, what makes this harrowing "Trip" endurable, even uplifting, is Carrie's hard-won humor and wisdom, and the peace she is able to make with her own unhappiness before she is …
SWEET Hochberg's musical is, strictly speaking, slighter than it needs to be, and the book's choppy structure and internal contradictions come across as being sloppy and inadequately thought…
SWEET Stephen Gifford's beautifully executed set with subtle lighting by R. Christopher Stokes creates the perfect atmosphere for the story to unfold. Goldberg's ability to bring these three…
BITTER It’s hard to say why the play’s production at Theatre West doesn’t reach the level of comical lunacy that is so obviously required. Certainly, co-directors Pete Park…
SWEET In place of verse, Wright threads the piece with poetic songs (with Danny Webber on keyboard) that seldom unduly tax a cast of primarily actors rather than singers. The resulting thema…
SWEET Through a magical, musical tour, with memorable song and dance numbers, sure to wow the audience, such as ‘Puttin’ On the Ritz,”and “Roll in the Hay,” the…
SWEET This play is a powerful, poetic testament to the brave, heroic martyrs, women who volunteered as soldiers, and lived to tell the tale, wounds and all… alas, only to find their re…
SWEET The charming musical-in-the-rough that was Bronies: The Musical at this past summer's Hollywood Fringe Festival has since been polished into the sparklingly rainbow-hued gem now gettin…
SWEET Lon Chaney rocks out as this incredibly inventive rock opera experience brings sound to his seminal silent film. Staci Layne Wilson – Dread Central SWEET Vox's version of the Pha…
BITTER A terrible play, and depressing as well, playwright Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime is set in a not-too-distant future and imagines a world where sophisticated robots have been fashi…
SWEET Opera newbies will find this production effective and thought-provoking, while veterans who think they've sat through one too many Toscas should come to see and hear Blackwell and Chen…
SWEET "Let’s Make a Deal’s” Wayne Brady as the lead in a revival of “Kiss Me, Kate”: It almost sounds like an especially wacky draft in some fantasy stunt-casti…
SWEET Mixing what might be called tragic farce with psychological inquiry, this multi-pronged, rapid-fire investigation (performed with all-out sketch-comedy attack by Ben Crowley, Nicholas …
BITTER Tarell Alvin McCraney's 2012 Choir Boy is a tantalizing, underdeveloped play-with-music not entirely improved by Trip Cullman's direction, now at the Geffen a year after the productio…
SWEET Every Los Angeles theatergoer should be so lucky as to see a show this ecstatic. Because all this work is in service of literature that evaluates the sexual morality, the emotional fid…
SWEET Josh (Kip Gilman) & Janet (Wendy Michaels), who come from seemingly different worlds, prove that the adage 'opposites attract' rings true. Each of these lost souls struggle to ulti…
BITTERSWEET Like Rockwell’s last cabaret-style show “The Album Project: Jagged Little Pill,” this tries to mix a profoundly emotional story with modern pop music. And while…
BITTER The production is somewhat elevated by the quality of the performances, but that's not enough to salvage it. Lovell Estell III – Stage Raw SWEET An exquisite top flight ensemble…
SWEET As delightfully self-assured as it is comically self-referential, made up of equal parts whimsy, wacky, profane and profound, this cracked experiment in satirical musical development i…
