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		<title>The LA Weekly Asks: What Fantasy Show Would You Put on with Unlimited Money?</title>
		<link>http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/2012/05/21/the-la-weekly-asks-what-fantasy-show-would-you-put-on-with-unlimited-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 03:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great article over at the LA Weekly conducted by Steven Leigh Morris as he reaches out to seven LA Artistic Directors to ask the very intriguing question: What Fantasy Production Would You Put on if You Had Unlimited Money? The answers may surprise you. My favorite is Playwrights Arena&#8217;s Jon Lawrence Rivera&#8217;s response: &#8220;I&#8217;ve had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: Theatre Producers Make Historic Vote to Form Los Angeles League [UPDATED]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 19:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m hearing from some of my peeps who went to the LA Stage Alliance event at the Kirk Douglas Theatre last night. Over 75 producers from the 99 Seat Theatre Community showed up and though it sounded like the process was a little on the clunky side, thanks to the moderating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critique of the Week</title>
		<link>http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/2012/05/20/critique-of-the-week-147/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This review was brought to my attention before I even read it as something quite &#8220;effusive&#8221;. It is that. And a quite extraordinary example of a truly jubilant theatre review just lettin&#8217; it rip. THE TURN OF THE SCREW Brian Sonia-Wallace &#8211; LA Theatre Review Horror, by nature, is a theatrical genre because to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even Shakespeare couldn&#8217;t have written this one: The Struggle for the Future of LA Theatre</title>
		<link>http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/2012/05/19/even-shakespeare-couldnt-have-written-this-one-the-struggle-for-the-future-of-la-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 01:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you may be aware of the LA Stage Alliance-hosted talks on the 99 Seat Plan that have been occurring over the last few months or so. There are a couple of primers on the whole dillio here, here and here. Some of you may not be aware of what&#8217;s been going on. Some of you may simply not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An &#8220;Open&#8221; Letter from Terrence McFarland, CEO at LA Stage Alliance (that they never sent to us but we&#8217;re re-posting anyway)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 08:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably should have done this earlier &#8211; printed this &#8220;open&#8221; letter &#8211; but somehow the timing seems right now. Not sure why they didn&#8217;t send this &#8220;open&#8221; letter to us to help reach out to the smaller theatre community (it&#8217;s kinda our &#8220;constituency&#8221;, gents? Hellooo?), but they didn&#8217;t. Nevertheless,with this incredibly important May 20 producers&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Legitimacy &#8211; By Rick Culbertson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 07:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Again, LA Theatre Producer, Rick Culbertson, has allowed us to re-publish his clarion call to the LA Theatre producers out there, urging them to all go to the final LA Stage Talks Meeting on the 99 Seat Producers Question. The meeting is happening Sunday, May 20 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. I will have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bitter Lemons Contributor Jay McAdams Touted as one of LA&#8217;s &#8220;Most Interesting People 2012&#8243; by LA Weekly</title>
		<link>http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/2012/05/17/bitter-lemons-contributor-jay-mcadams-touted-as-one-of-las-most-interesting-people-2012-by-la-weekly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not BECAUSE he&#8217;s a Bitter Lemons contributor &#8211; obviously &#8211; though I&#8217;m sure it was a crucial component in the voting for LA Weekly&#8217;s Most Interesting People 2012 List. You can read the whole list here. Actually, anyone who knows Jay McAdams knows that he has always been Jay McAdams long before he became OUR [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pitch</title>
		<link>http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/2012/05/13/pitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 02:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Rohrer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great schism exists between you and everyone else: nobody cares about you as you do.  Nobody.  Your mother?  Wife?  Your husband and kids?  They would give their lives for you, but that&#8217;s their thing.  It&#8217;s not really about you, it&#8217;s about them and their own choices.  Love&#8217;s illusion of selflessness is not less illusory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critique of the Week &#8211; Runner Runner Up</title>
		<link>http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/2012/05/13/critique-of-the-week-runner-runner-up-36/</link>
		<comments>http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/2012/05/13/critique-of-the-week-runner-runner-up-36/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 15:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck McNut in full bluster. He may have needed to towel off after this one. He seems to really shine when he&#8217;s either really really happy, or really really annoyed. This one&#8217;s the former. FOLLIES Charles McNulty &#8211; LA Times There&#8217;s so much to praise in the blissful Broadway revival of &#8220;Follies,&#8221; which opened Wednesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critique of the Week &#8211; Runner Up</title>
		<link>http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/2012/05/13/critique-of-the-week-runner-up-83/</link>
		<comments>http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/2012/05/13/critique-of-the-week-runner-up-83/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 15:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few critics out there who can say so much with such little space, Bill is one of them. Yeah, it&#8217;s a &#8220;capsule&#8221; review, but it&#8217;s a capsule full of your daily dosage of minerals and vitamins. COPY Bill Raden &#8211; LA Weekly Whatever else a metaphor might be, in the theater it is [...]]]></description>
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