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 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.
Our top reviewers in 2018 have been (in alphabetical order):
Carol Kaufman Segal (click here for her reviews)
Daniel Faigin (click here for his reviews)
David MacDowell Blue (click here for his reviews)
Deborah Klugman (click here for her reviews)
Don Grigware (click here for his reviews)
Ellen Dostal (click here for her reviews)
Eric Gordon (click here for his reviews)
Erin Conley (click here for her reviews)
Ernest Kearney (click here for his reviews)
Gil Kaan (click here for his reviews)
Leigh Kennicott (click here for her reviews)
Leo Buck (click here for his reviews)
Patrick Chavis (click here for his reviews)
Rob Stevens (click here for his reviews)
Ryan Luevano (click here for his reviews)
Shari Barrett (click here for her reviews)
Steven Stanley (click here for his reviews)
Travis Michael Holder (click here for his reviews)
We would also like to thank these top Publicists and theater companies, who consistently post events that they are working on, so that the shows can qualify for audience reviews and for the Annual Better Lemons’ Critics and Audience Choice Awards:
Chance Theatre (Chance Theatre @Bette Aiken Theater Arts Center)
Judith Borne
Lucy Pollak (Lucy Pollak Public Relations)
Miriam Billington (Morgan Wixson Theatre)
Nora Feldman
Phantom Projects (Phantom Projects Theatre Group)
Road Theatre (The Road Theatre Company)
Rubicon Theatre Company (RubiconTheatre.org)
Sandra Zeitzew (Santa Monica Playhouse)
Scott Golden (Sacred Fools at the Broadwater)
Susan Gordon
Philip Sokoloff
Sandra Kuker (Sandra Kuker PR)
Sarah Jarvis (The Wallis)
Sebastian Muñoz (Force of Nature Productions)
SkyPilot Theatre (SkyPilot Theatre Company)
Tyler Flynn (Pepperdine University – Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts)
Zombie Joe’s (Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group)
In every category Better Lemons has grown since 2017 and 2018 and we look forward to working with you all in 2019 to help us grow more and get the word out about the great things about LA!
And now to the exciting part of 2018. Here is a list with all the SWEET productions of 2018, with publicist name listed where applicable.
The Better Lemons’ DoubleSweet #LemonMeter Choice Awards for 2018
are going to the following productions:
(productions that received SWEET #LemonMeter ratings
from audience and critics)
BLACK WHEN I WAS A BOY at Asylum @ Studio C
41 Audience reviews – 100% Sweet
3 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
WOUNDED at the Lounge Theatre
25 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
BALLS’ ON at The Broadwater
25 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
3 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
A STEADY RAIN at the John Kirby Studio
22 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
DOCTOR ZOMBA’S GHOST SHOW OF TERROR at The Complex
22 audience reviews – 86% Sweet
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by the Dean Productions Theatre Company
18 audience reviews – 100% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
3 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
THE UNIVERSE (101) at The Complex
17 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
4 critics reviews – 88% Sweet
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RAZOR RIBBON at Asylum @ Studio C
17 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
3 critics reviews – 83% Sweet
MOVIN’ ON UP at The Complex
16 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
4 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
SKIN JOBS at The Broadwater
12 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
3 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
THE RENTAL at The Complex
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
3 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
GRAY PEOPLE (2019 EXTENSION) at The Belfry Stage
8 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
FIRE IN A DARK HOUSE at the Whitefire Theatre
8 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
8 critics reviews – 90% Sweet
THE MAN WHO SAVED EVERYTHING at Theatre West
8 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
5 critics reviews – 75% Sweet
THE WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE at studio/stage
6 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
7 critics reviews – 93% Sweet
THE MARRIAGE ZONE at the Santa Monica Playhouse
6 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
15 critics reviews – 87% Sweet
STILL…THE PLAY INSPIRED BY 4:44 at The Complex
6 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
4 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
SAM SHABER: LIFE, DEATH & DURAN DURAN at The Complex
5 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
THE PLEASURE PROJECT at The Lyric Hyperion
5 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
4 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
DOROTHY & ALICE: AN AERIAL PLAY at Aeriform Arts
5 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
4 critics reviews – 88% Sweet
FALLEN SAINTS: DARK by Force of Nature Productions
5 audience reviews – 100% Sweet – Sebastian Muñoz
6 critics reviews – 92% Sweet – Sebastian Muñoz
STILL at The Actors Company
5 audience reviews – 90% Sweet
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
GOD: THE APOLOGIES TOUR at studio/stage
5 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
LAERTES LOVES HAMLET LOVES OPHELIA at The Broadwater
5 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
4 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
I AM SOPHIE at the Pico Playhouse
4 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
MARTIANS – AN EVENING WITH RAY BRADBURY at the Whitefire Theatre
4 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
9 critics reviews – 94% Sweet
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE at The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
4 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
GLORIA at the Lounge Theatre
4 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
CLARISSANT at the Atwater Village Theatre
4 critics reviews – 88% Sweet
4 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
VILLAINY at the Whitefire Theatre
3 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
4 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
The Better Lemons’ Audience #LemonMeter Choice Awards for 2018 are going to the following productions:
(productions, which have a minimum of 10 audience reviews)
BABY BOY at The Complex
48 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
BLACK WHEN I WAS A BOY at Asylum @ Studio C
41 audience reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
HOUSES WITHOUT WALLS at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre
40 Audience reviews – 100% Sweet
MARON DOLL at studio/stage
38 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
BALLS’ ON at The Broadwater
25 audience reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
WOUNDED at the Lounge Theatre
25 audience reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
I DIED TODAY at The Actors Company
25 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
MY MOM DIED WHEN I WAS 14 (A COMEDY) at studio/stage
24 audience reviews – 98% Sweet
NOBODY’S REALLY HELPED ME at The Broadwater
24 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
A STEADY RAIN at the John Kirby Studio
22 audience reviews – 100% Sweet (Double Sweet Show)
DOCTOR ZOMBA’S GHOST SHOW OF TERROR at The Complex
22 audience reviews – 86% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
GUN AND A MOTEL BIBLE at The Broadwater
20 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME at The Actors Company
19 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
LOVE, LOCS & LIBERATION at studio/stage
18 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by the Dean Productions Theatre Company
18 audienc reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show) – Philip Sokoloff
MANY TRUMP REFUGEES IN ONE BODY at The Broadwater
18 audience reviews – 97% Sweet
PUBLIC COMMENT, A NEW MUSICAL at The Actors Company
17 audienc reviews – 100% Sweet
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RAZOR RIBBON at Asylum @ Studio C
17 audience reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
THE UNIVERSE (101) at The Complex
17 audience reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
COWBOY MOUTH at The Actors Company
17 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
MOVIN’ ON UP at The Complex
16 audience reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
WE ARE TRAFFIC – A SOLO RIDESHARE ADVENTURE at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre
16 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
RONNIE BRIXTON – THE BEST OF BRITISH BOXING at The Complex
16 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
WHITE NIGHTS, BLACK PARADISE at the Hudson Theatre
15 audience reviews – 97% Sweet
MONDAY MORNING AND CHEESE & THINGS at The Actors Company
13 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
THE COLOR COLLECTIVE at The Complex
13 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
THE OZ MONOLOGUES at The Actors Company
13 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
ANXIETY WRITTEN at The Actors Company
12 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
TURN OFF THE LIGHTS at the McCadden Place Theatre
12 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
IT’S EASIER TO LOVE A CAT at the New Collective
12 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE at the El Portal Theatre
12 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
THE FOXHOLE STORIES: TWIST, PULL, SMOKE, RUN-MOTHERFUCKER-RUN! at the Lounge Theatre
12 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
WHITE PEOPLE DRINKING – THE CONTROVERSIAL COMEDY at Three Clubs
12 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
SKIN JOBS at The Broadwater
12 audience reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
LADY FARTS at The Complex
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
TRAPPED AT TEA TIME at The Actors Company
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
NEW KID ON THE BLOCK at The Actors Company
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
KEY CHANGE at the Secret Rose Theatre
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
SEX RATED G at The Complex
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
F*CK FICTION: TRUE TALES OF LIFE & DEATH IN PARADISE at The Broadwater
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
FEEDING A MONSTER STAGE PLAY at the Hudson Theatre
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
JACK BENNY (A MéNAGE EN TRAIN) at Three Clubs
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
BRIMSTONE at Impro Studio
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
SAM SHEPARD & PATTI SMITH’S COWBOY MOUTH at The Broadwater
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
THE RENTAL at The Complex
11 audience reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
VIXEN DEVILLE REVEALED at the Lounge Theatre
10 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
A LIFE BEHIND BARS at the Lounge Theatre
10 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JULIA ROBERTS: A PARODY MUSICAL at the Asylum @ Studio C
10 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
THE PARISIAN DREAM at the Assistance League of Los Angeles
10 audience reviews – 100% Sweet
The Better Lemons’ Critics #LemonMeter Choice Awards for 2018 are going to the following productions:
ARRIVAL & DEPARTURE at the Fountain Theatre
24 critics reviews – 92% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
THE CHOSEN at the Fountain Theatre
22 critics reviews – 98% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
FREUD’S LAST SESSION at the Odyssey Theatre
22 critics reviews – 95% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
MUTT HOUSE at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
19 critics reviews – 89% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
NATIVE SON by the Antaeus Theatre
19 critics reviews – 87% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
GLORIA by the Echo Theatre Company
18 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
BAD JEWS at the Odyssey Theatre
18 critics reviews – 97% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
THREE DAYS IN THE COUNTRY by the Antaeus Theatre
18 critics reviews – 94% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
FOREVER BOUND at the Atwater Village Theatre
18 critics reviews – 94% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
FINKS by the Rogue Machine Theatre
16 critics reviews – 97% Sweet – Judith Borne PR
VIOLET at the Actors Co-op
16 critics reviews – 97% Sweet – Nora Feldman Publicity
COME FROM AWAY at the Ahmanson Theatre
16 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
DEAR EVAN HANSEN at the Ahmanson Theatre
16 critics reviews – 84% Sweet
ICE at the 24th STreet Theatre
15 critics reviews – 87% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
THE MARRIAGE ZONE at the Santa Monica Playhouse
15 critics reviews – 87% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
VALLEY OF THE HEART at the Mark Taper Forum
15 critics reviews – 77% Sweet
THE HUMANS at the Ahmanson Theatre
15 critics reviews – 87% Sweet
THE LITTLE FOXES by the Antaeus Theatre
15 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
14 critics reviews – 96% Sweet
SEñOR PLUMMER’S FINAL FIESTA at Plummer Park
14 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
HAITI at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum
13 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
THE HOTHOUSE by the Antaeus Theatre
13 critics reviews – 92% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
WICKED LIT: THE CHIMES & THE CORPSE at the Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery
13 critics reviews – 88% Sweet
WAITRESS at the Pantages Theatre
13 critics reviews – 88% Sweet
SWEAT at the Mark Taper Forum
13 critics reviews – 85% Sweet
MAYAKOVSKY AND STALIN at the Lounge Theatre
13 critics reviews – 77% Sweet
CABARET at the Celebration Theatre @ The Lex
12 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – David Elzer Marketing and Public Relations
COST OF LIVING at the Fountain Theatre
12 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
CORIOLANUS at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum
12 critics reviews – 96% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS – A LOVE STORY at the The Victory Theatre Center
12 critics reviews – 92% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
SCREWBALL COMEDY at Theatre 40
12 critics reviews – 88% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
4PLAY: SEX IN A SERIES at Theatre 40
12 critics reviews – 88% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
AIN’T TOO PROUD at the Ahmanson Theatre
12 critics reviews – 88% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM at the Odyssey Theatre
12 critics reviews – 83% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at the The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
12 critics reviews – 83% Sweet – Sarah Jarvis
THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO SPACE AS A MAN at Son of Semele
12 critics reviews – 83% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
SEX at the Hudson Theatre
12 critics reviews – 75% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Geffen Playhouse
11 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE at the Center Theatre Group
11 critics reviews – 95% Sweet
MEXICAN DAY by the Rogue Machine Theatre
11 critics reviews – 91% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
A CAROL CHRISTMAS at The Group Rep
11 critics reviews – 91% Sweet – Nora Feldman
LYSISTRATA UNBOUND at the Odyssey Theatre
11 critics reviews – 86% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
NATIVE GARDENS at the Pasadena Playhouse
11 critics reviews – 86% Sweet
AMERICAN HERO by the IAMA Theatre Company
11 critics reviews – 77% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
RADIANT VERMIN by Door Number 3 Theatre
10 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
OLD CLOWN WANTED at the Odyssey Theatre
10 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
SHOWPONY at The Victory Theatre Center
10 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
YELLOW FACE by Fire Escape Theatre
10 critics reviews – 95% Sweet
ALRIGHT THEN by Pacific Resident Theatre
10 critics reviews – 95% Sweet
DADDY LONG LEGS at the International City Theatre
10 critics reviews – 95% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
THE MOTHER F**KER WITH THE HAT at the Gloria Gifford Conservatory
10 critics reviews – 95% Sweet
CRY IT OUT at the Echo Theater Company
10 critics reviews – 90% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
SOFT POWER at the Ahmanson Theatre
10 critics reviews – 90% Sweet
WOOD BOY DOG FISH at the Garry Marshall Theatre
10 critics reviews – 85% Sweet – Chelsea Sutton
OPPENHEIMER by the Rogue Machine Theatre
9 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Judith Borne Publicity
PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES at the Sierra Madre Playhouse
9 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
BUS STOP at Theatre 40
9 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center
9 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
UNDER MILK WOOD by the Open Fist Theatre
9 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
HERSHEY FELDER: BEETHOVEN at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
9 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Sarah Jarvis
ENGAGING SHAW at Theatre 40
9 critics reviews – 94% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
HANSEL AND GRETEL at the LA Opera
9 critics reviews – 94% Sweet
A WALK IN THE WOODS at the Actors Co-op
9 critics reviews – 94% Sweet – Nora Feldman
MARTIANS – AN EVENING WITH RAY BRADBURY at the Whitefire Theatre
9 critics reviews – 94% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
SHE LOVES ME at the Actors Co-op
9 critics reviews – 94% Sweet – Nora Feldman
OUR VERY OWN CARLIN MCCULLOUGH at the Geffen Playhouse
9 critics reviews – 94% Sweet
ON YOUR FEET at the Pantages Theatre
9 critics reviews – 89% Sweet
IRONBOUND at the Geffen Playhouse
9 critics reviews – 83% Sweet – Judith Borne Publicity
A BRONX TALE at the Pantages Theatre
9 critics reviews – 78% Sweet
GRAY PEOPLE at The Belfry Stage
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
BUGABOO & THE SILENT ONE at the Lounge Theatre
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
EL NINO by the Rogue Machine Theatre
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Judith Borne
THE 39 STEPS at the International City Theatre
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
DOCTOR ZOMBA’S GHOST SHOW OF TERROR at The Complex
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
A PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY at A Noise Within
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
DON’T HUG ME, WE’RE FAMILY by Don’t Hug Me Productions
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Nora Feldman
THE RESCUED at The Road Theatre Company
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
DAMAGED FURNITURE at the Whitefire Theatre
8 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Nora Feldman
THE OTHER PLACE at the Chance Theater
8 critics reviews – 95% Sweet
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN by the Echo Theater Company
8 critics reviews – 94% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
L.O.V.E.R. at Zephyr Theatre
8 critics reviews – 88% Sweet – Susan Gordon
MAN OF LA MANCHA at A Noise Within
8 critics reviews – 88% Sweet
THE MADRES at Skylight Theatre Company
8 critics reviews – 88% Sweet – Judith Borne
ALL NIGHT LONG by the Open Fist Theatre Company
8 critics reviews – 88% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
HOSTAGE at the Skylight Theatre Company
8 critics reviews – 88% Sweet – Judith Borne
THE GLASS MENAGERIE at the International City Theatre
8 critics reviews – 88% Sweet
ROPE at the Actors Co-op
8 critics reviews – 75% Sweet
CABARET at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
EASY TARGETS: ARTISTS AND HEROES at The Broadwater
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT at Celebration Theatre @ The Lex
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
URBAN DEATH TOUR OF TERROR: HAUNTED THEATRE ATTRACTION at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
THE GIN GAME at the Sierra Madre Playhouse
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
RESA FANTASTISKT MYSTISK at The Broadwater
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
BRIGHT STAR at Musical Theatre West
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
AN EVENING OF BETRAYAL by The 6th Act
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Sandra Kuker PR
RUMORS at The Group Rep
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Sandra Kuker PR
JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA at the Chance Theater
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
THE GIANT VOID IN MY SOUL by the Ammunition Theatre Company
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Judith Borne
SILENCE! THE MUSICAL by the Bucket List Theatre
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
CULT OF LOVE by the IAMA Theatre Company
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Lucy Pollak Publicity
AMERICAN SAGA – GUNSHOT MEDLEY: PART 1 by the Rogue Machine Theatre
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Judith Borne
A STEADY RAIN at the John Kirby Studio
7 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (Double Sweet Show)
THE CAPE AND THE KLAN at the The Group Rep
7 critics reviews – 93% Sweet – Nora Feldman
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by After Hours Theatre Company
7 critics reviews – 93% Sweet – David Elzer Marketing and Public Relations
VIETGONE at East West Players
7 critics reviews – 93% Sweet
SIGNIFICANT OTHER at the Geffen Playhouse
7 critics reviews – 93% Sweet
PARADISE – A DIVINE BLUEGRASS MUSICAL COMEDY at the Ruskin Group Theatre
7 critics reviews – 93% Sweet
THE WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE at studio/stage
7 critics reviews – 93% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
THE CAKE at the Geffen Playhouse
7 critics reviews – 93% Sweet
NEWSIES at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
7 critics reviews – 93% Sweet
THE CHALK GARDEN at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum
7 critics reviews – 79% Sweet
“BLACK!” at the Zephyr Theatre
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
I AM NOT A COMEDIAN…I’M LENNY BRUCE at Theatre 68
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
ROMEO AND JULIET at the The Group Rep
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
THE IMMIGRANT at the Sierra Madre Playhouse
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
26 PEBBLES at Theatre 40
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
THE ALAMO at Ruskin Group Theatre
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
NEXT TO NORMAL by Panic! Productions
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Sandra Kuker PR
SOUTH PACIFIC at the Rubicon Theatre Company
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
SAM SHABER: LIFE, DEATH & DURAN DURAN at The Complex
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
WOUNDED at the Lounge Theatre
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
GOD: THE APOLOGIES TOUR at studio/stage
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at A Noise Within
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
GLORIA at the Lounge Theatre
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (DoulbeSweet Show)
UK UNDERDOG at the Zephyr Theatre
6 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Lucy Pollak PR
FALLEN SAINTS: DARK by Force of Nature Productions
6 critics reviews – 92% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show) – Sebastian Muñoz
BLACKTOP HIGHWAY at the Odyssey Theatre
6 critics reviews – 92% Sweet
CARDBOARD PIANO at the International City Theatre
6 critics reviews – 92% Sweet – Lucy Pollak PR
DEATHTRAP at The Group Rep
6 critics reviews – 92% Sweet – Nora Feldman
WIESENTHAL at Theatre 40
6 critics reviews – 92% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
CAL IN CAMO by Red Dog Squadron Theatre
6 critics reviews – 92% Sweet – Judith Borne
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS at the Actors Co-op
6 critics reviews – 92% Sweet – Nora Feldman
OUTLAW by Clago Productions
6 critics reviews – 92% Sweet – Susan Gordon
RED SPEEDO at The Road Theatre Company
6 critics reviews – 83% Sweet
SWANSONG at the Skylight Theatre Company
6 critics reviews – 83% Sweet
FAMOUS at The 11:11 Space
6 critics reviews – 75% Sweet
SISTERS THREE by The Inkwell Theater
6 critics reviews – 75% Sweet – Judith Borne
BACCHAE BY EURIPIDES at the Getty Villa Outdoor Theater
6 critics reviews – 75% Sweet
EVERYTHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center
6 critics reviews – 75% Sweet
ONE LAST THING BEFORE YOU GO at Thymele Arts
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A PLAY at Celebration Theatre @ The Lex
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – David Elzer Marketing and Public Relations
TIME STANDS STILL at the Lounge Theatre
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
MEMBERS ONLY at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet – Lucy Pollak PR
THE COLOR PURPLE at the Greenway Court Theatre
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
A LOVE AFFAIR at the Santa Monica Playhouse
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
THE NIGHT FORLORN (OR WAITIN’ ON GODSFORD) at Theatre West
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
WHAT WENT WRONG by the Shinbone Theatre Company
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE at The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF STRANGER THINGS at Rockwell: Table & Stage
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE at The Road Theatre Company
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
I AM SOPHIE at the Pico Playhouse
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
THE BABY DANCE: MIXED at the Rubicon Theatre Company
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
STILL at The Actors Company
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
REMEMBERING BOYLE HEIGHTS at CASA 0101
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
SCHOOL GIRLS at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
GOOD PEOPLE at the Chance Theater
5 critics reviews – 100% Sweet
PLUNGE BY TOM JACOBSON at Son of Semele
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet
NINE WINNING ONE-ACTS at The Group Rep
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet
BLUE SURGE by Sixty-six Theatre Company
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet
A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN at The Actor’s Gang
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet – Peter Goldman Publicity
YOU IN MIDAIR at the Lounge Theatre
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet – Lucy Pollak PR
PIRATES OF PENZANCE at the Pasadena Playhouse
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet
JACKIE UNVEILED at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet – Sara Jarvis
FIRE IN A DARK HOUSE at the Whitefire Theatre
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
SPECIAL at Theatre of Note
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet – Philip Sokoloff
ALLEGIANCE at East West Players
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet
SKELETON CREW at the Geffen Playhouse
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet
RIPE FRENZY at the Greenway Court Theatre
5 critics reviews – 90% Sweet
A MILE IN MY SHOES at the Lounge Theatre
5 critics reviews – 80% Sweet
MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD at Theatre of Note
5 critics reviews – 80% Sweet
NOISES OFF at A Noise Within
5 critics reviews – 80% Sweet
LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR at the Garry Marshall Theatre
5 critics reviews – 80% Sweet
THE MAN WHO SAVED EVERYTHING at Theatre West
5 critics reviews – 75% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show) – Sandra Kuker PR
VILLAINY at the Whitefire Theatre
4 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
THE PLEASURE PROJECT at The Lyric Hyperion
4 critics reviews – 100% Sweet (DoubleSweet Show)
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