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		<title>TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (FREMONT PRODUCTION): 100% &#8211; Sweet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BITTERSWEET As Booth, Rider has an appealing intensity that bounces nicely off of Jed Reynolds&#8217; low-key Lincoln. James Reynolds&#8217; simple staging is clear and clean, and the young actors own the play&#8217;s many comic moments. They have more difficulty mining the complexity of the material—reaching the depths it demands—and at times handling the heightened language. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GOOD BOOK OF PEDANTRY AND WONDER: 63% &#8211; Sweet &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BITTER From such fascinating but dramatically unpromising ingredients Pomerance seeks to assemble a play. Given that Murray used the wealth of English literature to assemble his dictionary, one might have imagined a Stoppardesque approach where Murray’s painstaking effort is scrimmed through some well-known literary masterpiece providing a superstructure on which to hang the theatrically inert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE: 100% &#8211; Sweet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SWEET This kind of theatrical blood sport won’t be for everyone. (Pity the crew assigned to clean up the mess after each performance.) But if a flincher like me found himself tittering with open eyes, maybe you’ll be tickled by McDonagh’s malign mirth as well. Charles McNulty &#8211; LA Times SWEET Playwright Martin McDonagh taps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THURGOOD: 100% &#8211; Sweet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SWEET At the end, Marshall recites the following lines from a poem by his Lincoln University schoolmate Langston Hughes: “O, let America be America again./The Land that never has been yet — /And yet must be….” Fishburne allows the words to resonate with purpose, clarity and democratic feeling, and his performance is an opportunity for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES: 78% &#8211; Sweet &#8211; UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://bitter-lemons.com/2010/05/how-the-other-half-loves-100-sweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 23:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SWEET I try never to miss either an Ayckbourn farce or an ICT production or anything directed by Todd Nielsen. When the three intersect, as in How The Other Half Loves, I know I will be treated to an evening of laughter and fun. My advice to you: Sit back, relax, and enjoy the mayhem. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALFRED HITCHCOCK&#8217;S THE 39 STEPS: 85% &#8211; Sweet &#8211; UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://bitter-lemons.com/2010/04/the-39-steps-100-sweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SWEET Tony Award nominated Director Maria Aitken has successfully transplanted the brilliance of the Broadway production to the incarnation currently running at the Ahmanson Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The production utilizes a sparse collection of set pieces and then challenges the imagination to engage in the world created by the quartet’s tireless Pantomime, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO (TAPER REVIVAL): 100% &#8211; Sweet</title>
		<link>http://bitter-lemons.com/2010/04/bengal-tiger-at-the-baghdad-zoo-taper-revival-100-sweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SWEET Derek McLane’s Middle Eastern sets are as spare as they are atmospherically rich. The scenic design may have worked better on a more compact stage, but the magical sense that anything can occur has been vitally left intact. David Lander’s pockets of lighting certainly enhance this quality, as do David Zinn’s simple yet transformative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD: 88% &#8211; Sweet &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SWEET Elliot&#8217;s pacing is just right, gentle enough to catch the emotion and the beauty of the language yet brisk and smart enough to serve the comedy. Among the lovely performances are Jill Hill&#8217;s Widow Quinn (who shares the dainty, word-wise qualities of Mance&#8217;s Countess in Figaro); the eccentric and idiosyncratic William Dennis Hunt&#8217;s Philly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIGHTMARE ALLEY: 27% &#8211; Bitter &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BITTER Although Jonathan Brielle does a neat job of compressing the action into two hours onstage, he fails to capitalize on the terrible implications of falling from grace into a hell beyond the reaches of spirituality or religion, and neither his lyrics nor music is memorable. Laurence Vittes &#8211; Hollywood Reporter BITTER But mystery and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critique of the Week &#8211; Runner Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE WAKE Review by Jana J. Monji &#8211; LA Examiner Lisa Kron&#8217;s new play, making its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, is about a female writer who talks a lot and yet doesn&#8217;t really listen. I wished to flee her company to a cozy bed or the local dance floors, [...]]]></description>
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