PAUL MYRVOLD – Paul Myrvold’s Theatre Notes
The “I Love LA” Award goes to the critic who did the most to promote LA Theatre in 2019.
Congratulations to Paul from all of us!
Paul Myrvold, has been writing theatre commentary for over thirty years, first in the Bay Area covering every kind of performance including plays, musicals, ballet, opera, circus, and even a Portuguese-style bull fight. He has written about theatrical performances at all levels in all kinds of venues from the premiere theatres, such as A.C.T., Berkeley Rep and TheatreWorks, to smaller, high quality venues such as San Jose Stage Company, City Lights Theatre Company, and Pacific Repertory Theatre in Carmel. He has also covered community theatre productions, college and university productions and, on occasion, high school productions.
Now residing in Southern California, Paul has been commenting on shows throughout Los Angeles County and has stretched his beat to Orange County and South Coast Repertory.
An Equity actor for over forty years, Paul played Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum in San Jose Stage Company’s award winning production of The Three Penny Opera and the dual roles of Sir Walter Elliot and Admiral Croft in the world premiere of Jane Austen’s Persuasion also at San Jose Stage Company. He earned a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for “Outstanding Performance” in the supporting roles of J. V. “Major” Bouvier and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale in the musical Grey Gardens at TheatreWorks (2008). In the summer of 2018, he appeared in the highly acclaimed Open Fist Theatre production of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood as Reverend Jenkins and Narrator. Paul has performed on Broadway (most notably in the hit show Shenandoah with John Cullum), off Broadway, off-off Broadway, in regional theatres, summer stock and as a Guest Artist at colleges and universities from coast to coast. He has performed his signature role Cervantes/Quixote in Man of La Mancha eight times over four decades, the latest of which was an intimate, theatre-in-the round production at Pacific Repertory Theatre. Some other favorite roles include King Lear, Fred Graham / Petruchio in Kiss Me, Kate, Trigorin in The Sea Gull, Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music and Caldwell B. Cladwell in Urinetown. Paul is never happier than when he is in the theatre, either on stage or in the audience, and he hopes to see you at intermission or after the show.
To view all of Paul’s review excerpts, visit his Better Lemons page HERE.
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Tomorrow we will announce the winner of the “Enlightenment” Award – the critic who did the most to inform and educate in 2019.
THE BETTER LEMONS “FOMENTER OF REVOLUTION” CRITIC AWARD for 2019 went to Ed Rampell from Hollywood Progressive.
THE BETTER LEMONS “NAME DROPPER” CRITIC AWARD for 2019 went to Jill Weinlein from Onstage Blog.
THE BETTER LEMONS “SAY WHAT” CRITIC AWARD for 2019 went to Lorenzo Marchessi from The Geek Authority.
THE BETTER LEMONS “SILVER TONGUE” CRITIC AWARD for 2019 went to Vanessa Cate from Stage Raw.
THE BETTER LEMONS “DIRECTOR” CRITIC AWARD for 2019 went to Ernest Kearney from TheTVolution.
THE BETTER LEMONS “UP LATE” CRITIC AWARD for 2019 went to Eric Gordon from People’s World.
THE BETTER LEMONS “THEATRE HOUND” CRITIC AWARD for 2019 went to Shari Barrett from Broadway World.