Better Lemons had a fantastic year and we couldn't have done it without the fantastic critics, publicists, and audience members who share their love of Los Angeles theater, by posting on Better Lemons and sharing their favorite shows and their reviews on social media.
We are especially grateful for all the Registered Critics who took their time this past year to rate shows they have reviewed to be included in our LemonMeter.
There were 1200 productions registered on Better Lemons in 2019! Out of those registered shows, over 600 received at least one review from a Critic and 201 were reviewed by Audience members. Out of these shows, we selected the winners that were most favored by Critics and/or Audiences.
Here is a list with all the Better Lemons SWEET productions of 2019:
The Better Lemons DoubleSWEET #LemonMeter Choice Awards for 2019
are going to the following productions:
(33 shows out of 1200 productions received
a DoubleSWEET #LemonMeter rating
from audience and critics)
TALES FROM THE POWDER ROOM at the Whitefire Theatre
41 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
3 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
IF WE RUN at the Lounge Theatre
32 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
3 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
RAISED BY WOLVES at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre
32 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
3 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
TO DAD WITH LOVE: A TRIBUTE TO BUDDY EBSEN at Theatre West
30 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
14 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
FERTILE: A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE EXPECTATION OF PROCREATION currently at the Whitefire Theatre
27 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
8 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
HOLLYWOODN'T at the Santa Monica Playhouse
20 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
3 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
THE BULLY PROBLEM at the Arena Theatre - Theatre of Arts
17 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
9 Critics reviews - 94% Sweet
THE NARCISSIST NEXT DOOR at the Complex Theatre
15 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
4 Critics reviews - 75% Sweet
THE ELEPHANT MAN at the El Portal Theatre
14 Audience reviews - 96% Sweet
7 Critics reviews - 93% Sweet
MONO/POLY at the Odyssey Theatre
14 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
5 Critics reviews - 90% Sweet
MASTERS OF THE DARK REALM at the Actors Workout Studio
14 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
4 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
BUNNY THE ELF LIVE! currently at the Stages in Fullerton
14 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
3 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
CRACK WHORE, BULIMIC, GIRL-NEXT-DOOR at the Complex Theatre
14 Audience reviews - 96% Sweet
3 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
A BIT MUCH at the Lounge Theatre
12 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
3 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
(IM)PERFEKT at the Santa Monica Playhouse
11 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
5 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
BLACKBOXING at the Complex Theatre
10 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
5 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
MIL GRUS at the McCadden Place Theatre
10 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
5 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
TRANSFERENCE at The Broadwater
9 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
6 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
SCRAPS at the Matrix Theatre
8 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
15 Critics reviews - 87% Sweet
SUPPORTIVE WHITE PARENTS at The Broadwater
8 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
4 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
NEIL SIMON'S MUSICAL FOOLS by the Open Fist Theatre Company
7 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
13 Critics reviews - 92% Sweet
ROMEO AND JULIET IN HELL at the Actors Workout Studio
7 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
8 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
FALLEN SAINTS: SALEM at the Actors Workout Studio
7 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
7 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
SAVING CAIN at the Hudson Theatres
6 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
5 Critics reviews - 90% Sweet
THE LAST CROISSANT at The Broadwater
5 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
6 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
TREYA'S LAST DANCE at the Hudson Theatres
4 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
10 Critics reviews - 95% Sweet
OLIVIA WILDE DOES NOT SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE at the Complex Theatre
4 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
6 Critics reviews - 92% Sweet
CLARISSANT at the Atwater Village Theatre
4 Audience reviews - 88% Sweet
4 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
CIRQUE DU GISELLE at the Assistance League Theater
4 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
4 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
BATTER UP: MY BRAIN ON BASEBALL at studio/stage
4 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
4 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
JOAN AND WHAT DID THEY SAY - AN EVENING OF ONE ACTS at Theatre Unlimited (T.U. Studios)
4 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
3 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
TREASON at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre
4 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
3 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
45 MILLIGRAMS at The Broadwater
3 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
3 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
The Better Lemons Audience #LemonMeter Choice Awards for 2019
are going to the following productions:
(32 shows out of 1200 productions received
a minimum of 10 audience reviews
and have received a SWEET #LemonMeter rating by the Audience)
TALES FROM THE POWDER ROOM at the Whitefire Theatre
41 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
IF WE RUN at the Lounge Theatre
32 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
RAISED BY WOLVES at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre
32 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
TO DAD WITH LOVE: A TRIBUTE TO BUDDY EBSEN at Theatre West
30 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
FERTILE: A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE EXPECTATION OF PROCREATION currently at the Whitefire Theatre
27 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
AN EXCUSE TO BEHAVE BADLY at the Lounge Theatre
22 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
HOLLYWOODN'T at the Santa Monica Playhouse
20 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
THE BULLY PROBLEM at the Arena Theatre - Theatre of Arts
17 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
TELENOVELA at the Actors Workout Studio
16 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
AMERICAN STRANGER THE MUSICAL at Studio C
16 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
THE NARCISSIST NEXT DOOR at the Complex Theatre
15 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
MONO/POLY at the Odyssey Theatre
14 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
MASTERS OF THE DARK REALM at the Actors Workout Studio
14 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
BUNNY THE ELF LIVE! currently at the Stages in Fullerton
14 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
CRACK WHORE, BULIMIC, GIRL-NEXT-DOOR Complex Theatre
14 Audience reviews - 96% Sweet
THE ELEPHANT MAN at the El Portal Theatre
14 Audience reviews - 96% Sweet
MANDY PICKS A HUSBAND at the Actors Company
13 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
A BIT MUCH at the Lounge Theatre
12 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
ASK A BLACK WOMAN at Studio C
12 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre
12 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
BIRTHDAY at the Actors Company
12 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
(IM)PERFEKT at the Santa Monica Playhouse
11 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
LEAVING PRINCE CHARMING at the Lounge Theatre
11 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
ENERJOYCE...EVOLUTION OF A PISCES BABY BOOMER at the Santa Monica Playhouse
11 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
YES. NO. MAYBE. at the Complex Theatre
11 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
BECOMING PEACE: A ONE WOMAN DRAMEDY ABOUT POWER, CULTURE, VIOLENCE AND NONVIOLENCE at the Lounge Theatre
10 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
CAT SH!T CRAZY...FROM HOT MESS TO HOT MAMA IN FOUR SIMPLE CATS at the Whitefire Theatre
10 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
OCTOPI WALL STREET at the New American Theatre
10 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
EMBRACE LOVE FREE at the Santa Monica Playhouse
10 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
BLACKBOXING at the Santa Monica Playhouse
10 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
MIL GRUS at the McCadden Place Theatre
10 Audience reviews - 100% Sweet
The Better Lemons Critics #LemonMeter Choice Awards for 2019
are going to the following productions:
(92 shows out of 1200 productions received
a minimum of 10 critic reviews
and have received a SWEET #LemonMeter rating by the Critics)
DANIEL'S HUSBAND at The Fountain Theatre
26 Critics reviews - 96% Sweet
WITCH at the Geffen Playhouse
21 Critics reviews - 93% Sweet
HANDJOB by the Echo Theater Company
21 Critics reviews - 79% Sweet
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at the Ahmanson Theatre
21 Critics reviews - 76% Sweet
THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN by the Antaeus Theatre Company
20 Critics reviews - 90% Sweet
SKINTIGHT at the Geffen Playhouse
19 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE by the Antaeus Theatre Company
19 Critics reviews - 97% Sweet
BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY at The Fountain Theatre
19 Critics reviews - 79% Sweet
LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS at the Ahmanson Theatre
18 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
MATTHEW BOURNE'S SWAN LAKE at the Ahmanson Theatre
18 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
1776 THE MUSICAL at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
18 Critics reviews - 94% Sweet
BRONCO BILLY - THE MUSICAL at the Skylight Theatre Company
18 Critics reviews - 92% Sweet
AN INSPECTOR CALLS at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
18 Critics reviews - 81% Sweet
DEADLY at the Sacred Fools Theater Company
18 Critics reviews - 75% Sweet
ON BECKETT at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
17 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
HELLO DOLLY at the Pantages Theatre
17 Critics reviews - 97% Sweet
READY STEADY YETI GO at the Rogue Machine Theatre
17 Critics reviews - 82% Sweet
TOO MUCH SUN at the Odyssey Theatre
17 Critics reviews - 82% Sweet
SALVAGE at the Lounge Theatre
16 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
LOOT at the Odyssey Theatre
16 Critics reviews - 91% Sweet
ANNE, A NEW PLAY at the Museum of Tolerance
16 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES at the Geffen Playhouse
16 Critics reviews - 84% Sweet
NICK DEAR'S FRANKENSTEIN at A Noise Within
16 Critics reviews - 78% Sweet
RAGTIME: THE MUSICAL at the Pasadena Playhouse
15 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
INDECENT at the Ahmanson Theatre
15 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
15 Critics reviews - 97% Sweet
DANA H. at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
15 Critics reviews - 97% Sweet
EIGHT NIGHTS by the Antaeus Theatre Company
15 Critics reviews - 93% Sweet
FALSETTOS at the Ahmanson Theatre
15 Critics reviews - 90% Sweet
A KID LIKE JAKE by the IAMA Theatre Company
15 Critics reviews - 90% Sweet
LACKAWANNA BLUES at the Mark Taper Forum
15 Critics reviews - 90% Sweet
HYPE MAN at The Fountain Theatre
15 Critics reviews - 90% Sweet
SCRAPS at the Matrix Theatre
15 critics reviews - 87% Sweet
OTHELLO at A Noise Within
15 Critics reviews - 80% Sweet
PARADISE at the Matrix Theatre
15 Critics reviews - 77% Sweet
LINDA VISTA at the Mark Taper Forum
15 Critics reviews - 77% Sweet
AUGUST WILSON'S JITNEY at the Mark Taper Forum
14 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
TO DAD WITH LOVE: A TRIBUTE TO BUDDY EBSEN at Theatre West
14 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
14 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
DIANA OF DOBSON'S by the Antaeus Theatre Company
14 Critics reviews - 93% Sweet
MOBY DICK - REHEARSED at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
14 Critics reviews - 89% Sweet
THE SOLID LIFE OF SUGAR WATER by Deaf West Theatre
14 Critics reviews - 89% Sweet
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at the Pasadena Playhouse
14 Critics reviews - 75% Sweet
TWO TRAINS RUNNING AT MATRIX at the Matrix Theatre
13 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
IN CIRCLES at the Odyssey Theatre
13 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
TWELFTH NIGHT at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
13 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
RAGTIME at the Chance Theater
13 Critics reviews - 96% Sweet
NEIL SIMON'S MUSICAL FOOLS by the Open Fist Theatre Company
13 Critics reviews - 92% Sweet
WITNESS UGANDA at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
13 Critics reviews - 92% Sweet
THE JOY WHEEL at the Ruskin Group Theatre
13 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
THE WOLVES by the Echo Theater Company
13 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
FAITH HEALER at the Odyssey Theatre
13 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
THE NICETIES at the Geffen Playhouse
13 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
ARGONAUTIKA at A Noise Within
13 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
THE PRODUCERS at the Celebration Theatre @ The Lex
13 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
FEFU AND HER FRIENDS at the Odyssey Theatre
13 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
LIGHTS OUT: NAT "KING" COLE at the Geffen Playhouse
13 Critics reviews - 85% Sweet
GRUMPY OLD MEN: THE MUSICAL at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
13 Critics reviews - 77% Sweet
HAPPY DAYS at the Mark Taper Forum
12 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
CANYON at theLos Angeles Theatre Center
12 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
THE VANDAL at the Chance Theater
12 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
DEATH OF A SALESMAN at the Ruskin Group Theatre
12 Critics reviews - 96% Sweet
NANCY F***ING REAGAN at the Secret Rose Theatre
12 Critics reviews - 88% Sweet
AMERICA ADJACENT at theSkylight Theatre Company
12 Critics reviews - 83% Sweet
DEFENDERS at The Broadwater
12 Critics reviews - 79% Sweet
ANASTASIA at the Pantages Theatre
12 Critics reviews - 75% Sweet
JULIUS WEEZER at the El Portal Theatre
11 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
ANDY WARHOL’S TOMATO at the Pacific Resident Theatre
11 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
BURIED CHILD at A Noise Within
11 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
11 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
HERSHEY FELDER: A PARIS LOVE STORY at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
11 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
ANNA IN THE TROPICS by the Open Fist Theatre Company
11 Critics reviews - 95% Sweet
THE GLASS MENAGERIE at A Noise Within
11 Critics reviews - 95% Sweet
AT THE TABLE at The Road Theatre Company
11 Critics reviews - 91% Sweet
MISS LILLY GETS BONED at the Rogue Machine Theatre
11 Critics reviews - 91% Sweet
SISTERS IN LAW at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
11 Critics reviews - 91% Sweet
THE GREAT LEAP at the Pasadena Playhouse
11 Critics reviews - 91% Sweet
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Odyssey Theatre
11 Critics reviews - 86% Sweet
M. BUTTERFLY at the South Coast Repertory
11 Critics reviews - 77% Sweet
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER by The Group Rep/Lonny Chapman Theatre
10 Critics reviews - 100% Sweet
TREYA'S LAST DANCE at the Hudson Theatres
10 Critics reviews - 95% Sweet
DAMES AT SEA by the Sierra Madre Playhouse
10 Critics reviews - 95% Sweet
NEVER IS NOW at the Skylight Theatre Company
10 Critics reviews - 95% Sweet
THE NEW ONE at the Ahmanson Theatre
10 Critics reviews - 95% Sweet
FRIENDS WITH GUNS at The Road Theatre Company
10 Critics reviews - 90% Sweet
ROALD DAHL'S MATILDA THE MUSICAL by 5 Star Theatricals
10 Critics reviews - 90% Sweet
DISNEY'S FROZEN at the Pantages Theatre
10 Critics reviews - 90% Sweet
THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE by the 24th STreet Theatre
10 Critics reviews - 85% Sweet
SPECIAL at the Theatre of Note
10 Critics reviews - 85% Sweet
SWEENEY TODD - THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET at the South Coast Repertory
10 Critics reviews - 85% Sweet
FIFTEEN MEN IN A SMOKE-FILLED ROOM at Theatre 40
10 Critics reviews - 85% Sweet
LOOSE KNIT by The Group Rep/Lonny Chapman Theatre
10 Critics reviews - 80% Sweet
