By Steve Schlich — A lot of people think of our president as a divider, but last weekend he did

It is not with eyes alone that we read a novel’s passage or play’s scene; we read them through the

By Ernest Kearney — In "Jocasta A Motherf**king Tragedy," Brian Weir and the Ghost Road Theatre Company have

by Ernest Kearney “My mother didn’t wear sneakers,” Fahn proclaims at the opening of her one-woman show, Under the

By Ernest Kearney —  The Aeriform Arts Studios is setup for those interested in learning the skills of trapeze, ribbon silks, lyra

I’m sorry, but the Hitler analogy is at last appropriate. You can hear the original Führer’s hateful nationalism in nearly

We love Angela Lansbury. And PBS announced today, "She's ba-a-a-ck." Dame Lansbury with Michael Gambon will head the cast in

By David Nairne — You are going to have a frigging good time at "Ride or Die: The Hip-Hop Musical."

In "Andy: The Red-Nosed Warhola," director/adapter Ezra Buzzington has crafted a swift, stylish and oh so entertaining rendering of the

I’m a big mouth white guy of Irish descent who, most likely, has ancestral ties to former President Barrack Obama,

Conceived, written and produced by Linden Waddell — who also performs, with Miller directing — Hello Again! The Songs of

By Ernest Kearney  —  In his latest Hollywood Fringe Festival offering, "New Kid on the Block," playwright John Patrick Daly's heart is

"Silent Sky" in its final weekend at Long Beach's International City Theatre, is a well-crafted feel-good evening in the theatre. 

One of my favorite game announcers for the San Francisco Giants is a former Giant himself, pitcher Mike Krukow. He

The Latino Theater Company offers up a first-class troupe for the world premiere of Jonathan Ceniceroz’s “The Cruise.”

It amazes me what a higgledy-piggledy of sources have served as inspiration for musicals. Little Shops of Horror, Cats, Sunset Boulevard

By Ernest Kearney — Stacy Dymalski is both smart and sharp a reality attested to in her HFF2018’s show "The

Yesss! We’re finally back to our ersatz Survivor season. We’ve endured months of chest pounding and breast beating on the beach, with

Obama’s had a great couple of weeks politically, but he’s still gone as of January 20, 2017. That leaves a

By Ernest Kearney  —  There is a great deal of love and passion that has gone into Shannon Penrod’s one

Heck

A friend of mine, (one who knows I’ve just finished a year long project of re-reading the Bible—for the fifth

I've turned so many people on to this show and have never heard any regrets. The best is my brother

After a wait of more than a decade since her last release, Melissa Manchester's 20th album, You Gotta Love the

At the top of where the Angel’s Flight Trolley once deposited its riders (and hopefully will again one day), nestled

By Ernest Kearney  —  "Pretty Dead Girl – A Musical Necromance."  There’s a title that holds promise, wouldn’t you say?

By Ernest Kearney — This year the TVO crew and I saw 76 shows and from those, here are THE

By Ernest Kearney —  A small town unemployed knuckle-dragging ne'er-do-well (Adam Ferguson) is approached by a producer of reality TV

By Ernest Kearney  —  The Old Man and the Old Moon is an assemblage of all the elements that made

How rare a thing; a thinking man's sci-fi both stimulating and satisfying. Penned by Jerome Bixby known for such works

Well, the ninth of June, the official kick off for Hollywood Fringe 2016, is quickly approaching. Like some huge lumbering

by Ernest Kearney — In "Keith Moon the Real Me," playing at Hudson Theatre’s Maintstage thru April 15, writer

By Ernest Kearney  —  Ain’t That America offers a truly unique viewpoint on a segment of our country that has

By Ernest Kearney  —  When the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was found on April 14, 1930—a suicide at the age

Indeed, four men like them, four men devoted to each other from their money to their lives, four men always

By Ernest Kearney — The Drama Theatre Fantazja from Sydney, Australia arrived at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019

Candidates, hang yourselves! Nobody does it better than you. The victories scored by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the April

Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts is a stunningly sincere and heartfelt drama that is sure to move any audience. That may

In James Cougar Canfield’s historical play Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement of Henry VIII the “ladies” in question are the

Whether you view the later works of Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett as avant-grade, Theatre of the Absurd, tragicomic

By Ernest Kearney — CC Sheffield’s story is pretty standard stuff at any Fringe

By Ernest Kearney — In Eugene O’Neill’s, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” in production at the Wallis through

What’s so embarrassing for me (an old white man) about watching an old white presidential candidate say—almost indignantly—“Well

You’re in Los Angeles and looking for the perfect space to mount your production. Available for your play, meeting, workshop or

By Ernest Kearney  —  In these turbulent and twisting times that find so many bewildered and baffled, suckered punched by

Forever Flamenco is back at the Fountain Theatre, which is cause for celebration. I am a self admitted aficionado, whose been

In my previous post, I quoted MSNBC reporter Chuck Todd speculating that the period before the South Carolina primary—now a

The peaceful dawning has come and gone. This day is like a long breath of air that has been held

Is Hillary honest? Does she lie? That seems an odd issue for the Trump camp to obsess about, considering the

At one point in the production of Lauren Gunderson's I and You at the Fountain Theatre, the main character's bedroom

The TVolution declares 'The Knick'  The Best Summer Freshman Drama (2014) Here the cast speaks on creating those intense and almost too

by Ernest Kearney — Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) was celebrated for his talent and disparaged for the madness that served as

We're back on the boat deck filled with potential Survivor contestants, waiting to see who will commit by jumping into

by Ernest Kearney — The Australian Theatre Company's "Grey Nomad" by Dan Lee is the tale of Helen (Ros Gentle)

The Coeurage Theatre Company has a mission statement, startling in both brevity and boldness: “…to make impassioned theatre accessible for

Just two years ago, documentary filmmaker Asif Kapadia began interviewing Amy Winehouse's family, friends and collaborators in a darkened London

The year 2015 is slipping away into history, and more importantly into memory. We are oblivious to the value of memory

In "The Girl who Jumped off the Hollywood Sign" written and performed by Joanne Hartstone, under the direction of Vince

by Ernest Kearney  —  Matei Visniec is a Romanian playwright who sought and was granted political asylum in France in

By Ernest Kearney  —  If you watch enough of the shows produced by that Fringe stalwart Michael Blaha you realize

First a bit of Irish history. The Black and Tans were a force of mostly former soldiers enrolled in the

Donald Trump knew that he lost the third debate long before it was over. As he seems to know, finally,

Starting June 1st and running throughout the entire month Hollywood Fringe 2017 will be offering up 356 shows; all vying

This is actually a treatment, the longer form that follows a successful pitch …because a treatment is longer and lots

by Ernest Kearney — Ice at the 24th Street Theatre is really a matter of  “All the King’s horses and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYJyVEUaC4 So Leslie Gore is crying because someone messed with her party? She’s clearly not a 2016 Republican. The sound you hear out

by Ernest Kearney — "Bright Star," currently on stage at the Ahmanson Theatre, is the epitome of what the Broadway

by Darwyn Carson — Time to Gird Your Loins everybody. If you haven't refreshed your memory yet, there's plenty of

Playwright Laura Maria Censabella's "Paradise," having closed a successful run at the Odyssey Theatre has now moved to the Matrix

The Robey Theatre Company and Los Angeles Theatre Center have partnered for the staging of "Dr. Du Bois and Miss

By Ernest Kearney — School of Night is known and respected on the Fringe circuit for performing acrobatic feats of

"Do You: Migration of the Monarchs" is a dazzling concept conveyed in a visually rich language, not a play as

by Ernest Kearney — The Fountain Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of “The Chosen,” adapted for the stage Aaron Posner and

By Ernest Kearney — And here they are

By Ernest Kearney  —   There is nothing so evasive as engendering effective and credible dread in a live theatre environment.

By Ernest Kearney  —  "Baba, Jee (Father, Yes)" is a solidly written, smartly directed and tightly performed piece. The story

Under the direction of Giovanna Sardelli, solid performances command the stage, in a new work by Rajiv Joseph; author of

CURSED “MY ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD” is an Ear Wax Medal Winner I write this without the least rancor towards Ms. Mendoza. I

A one-woman-show on Barack Obama’s mother

Wendy Williams stops by Books and Books in Coral Gables to sign her new book Ask Wendy. How you doin'?

The intended purpose of this monthly column is to bring to the attention of cinema junkies those odd and typically

ShoWorks Entertainment has traveled from South Africa to stage two offerings at the Fringe, both written by South African playwright

By Ernest Kearney — Poetess-songsmith-performer Kate Radford and Co-Producer Shoshannah Frankel have given the Hollywood Fringe Festival a work of

Not much delivers more joy than the reup of a favorite TV show. Case in point: The third season of

From the first moments of "Mary’s Medicine," currently running at the Complex Theatres during Hollywood Fringe 2017, playwright/director Matthew Robinson

By Ernest Kearney - The Cherry Poppins Productions have embraced a formula which has served them well in Hollywood Fringe

By Ernest Kearney — Well I can’t say that I was able to discern the “three short plays, written by

Hollywood Fringe, Week One —Part IV  The main stays of any Fringe are the solo performances; one-man shows, one-woman, one-whatever shows.

By Ernest Kearney — Fear and the pain we deny are the cancers of the soul. Having been

Arms and the Man is one of George Bernard Shaw’s most appealing plays; which is what he intended it to

By Ernest Kearney — Watching Renée Taylor’s one-woman show, My Life on a Diet, is akin to sitting

By Ernest Kearney — Actor, Playwright, Joshua Thomas was last at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2014 with

On second thought, don't flash that cash—I'll get ill. The Koch brothers have reportedly committed $900 million, give-or-take, to Republican

By Ernest Kearney  —  From the very start of the preshow it was evident that the cast of "Mackers!" was

"Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino's" by writer/director Richard Lucas approaches being the ultimate Hollywood Fringe Festival offering.

Irish playwright Martin McDonagh speaks fluent Grand Guinol, but speaks it with the lilt of Galway. The importance of this has

It opens with a real-life catastrophic event: a meteor the size of a small house hits a small town in

Billed as an exploration of music and magic "Incantesimo" relies heavily on the ability of music to take us into

By Ernest Kearney  —  There is an adage in the creative pursuit of playwriting: “It’s easier to set them up

Welcome to Springtime TV Madness: Sarah Manning faces off against manic Castor Clone Rudy (Ari Millen) aka "Scarface." Watch "The Weight of this

"Shakeslesque" is a playfully amusing blend of Bard and boobs; a racy, randy raucous romp in which the buxom babes

As the nerdiest kid this side of the Rockies, I lived for the cheesy Sci-Fi that oozed out of the

"Herpes: A Love Story," a show about the scourge of the sexual revolution, provides creator/performer Cherise Pascual with the opportunity

Unlikely heroes unite against an unknown making its way through the underground of New York and perhaps

Even the best magicians never actually do magic—they give you a believable illusion that they are performing the impossible. Mostly,

by Ernest Kearney As he espoused passion for both the city and its theatre, it is fitting that

For a complete medal tally for all 60 viewed by this contributor see click HERE.  Below is a The TVolution

By Ernest Kearney — "Too Much Sun" by Playwright Nicky Silver, presently a guest production at the Odyssey

With Black History Month you hear accounts of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Cyrus Attucks and other historical black figures

Now I’ve seen some truly remarkable acting at this year’s Fringe, but here are two amazing ensembles that stand out

At 100% full on energy the entire night, Garth Brooks IS the ultimate entertainer. From the moment he takes the

Hollywood Fringe 2016 is better than ever and continues on for two more weeks: dance, artistry, plays. There's also plenty

It is surprising how a vocal style dating back before the 1500s can still strike one as so immediate. Such

Flamenco is exceptional. Nowhere is grace found infused with such power, nor the sorrow and the joy of the human condition expressed

A lot of attention is being given to that first basket, the “basket of deplorables,” as Mrs. Clinton called it

by Ernest Kearney —  My Own Private River Phoenix is a smart and funny piece that is just not ready to

Here's the bulletin: A tough new detective, year 1864, is coming to our airwaves. Tom Weston-Jones stars in BBC America's,

No, not that race card. But some candidate will play it before the election. Promise. I mean the horse race card.

By Ernest Kearney — A writer (Scott Golden) is assigned to do a book on the town of

Check out this "Game of Thrones" location video focusing on Iceland and Spain; just luscious

Playwright Michael Leoni’s characters connected with the audience to an intense degree, and yet

There were Poirots before him. There will be Poirots to follow. Right now, for over seven hundred and fifty million

The old elephants in the room for Republicans—racism, sexism, disdain for the poor (to name a few)—are no longer invisible

VOICES According to the program notes, voiceover artist Carla Delaney wrote this one woman show as a birthday gift to herself,

By Ernest Kearney  —  Of all Shakespeare’s plays save "Hamlet," "Othello" offers the most challenges to any cry of players,

By Ernest Kearney — “DoubleDouble,” playwright Guy Zimmerman reveals in the program notes, “came out of a case I wanted

I initially reviewed John Posey’s one man show, Father, Son & Holy Coach when it played at the Whitefire Theatre

It’s a safe bet that more people want Trump out of office than want him in. Hell, that was true

By Ernest Kearney — Its title, "The Other Side of the Razor Ribbon," refers to the modern style

The folks who produce Survivor think that they understand tribes. Jeff Probst’s first official duty, on the first episode of every season,

Last year no one knew what to expect. The burning question was: "Who is Orphan Black?" This recap is for anyone

Who's your favorite? Time to decide! My best guess as to who ends up on the high ground would be: Team Stark

“Hell is really cold, wet and smells like fish.” In the tale of his time as a greenhorn on a commercial

Photo above is from Creative Commons: “hacker army 2.0” by Rodrigo Paoletti is licensed under CC BY 2.0

“Clip Show” A clip show is primarily a creature inhabiting the realm of television. Basically it denotes a particular episode, sometimes called

By Ernest Kearney  —  On December 21, 1988 a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103 over the town of

By David Nairne — "Son Of A Bitch," running at the Broadwater during Hollywood Fringe 2019, focuses on Lee Atwater’s

By Ernest Kearney Playwright Greg Kalleres opens "Meanwhile Back at the Super Lair" interestingly enough; with a

By Ernest Kearney  —  I can’t say I am very conversant with the 17th century Spanish Playwright Tirso de Molina. 

The movie Jurassic Park removed an intriguing side plot from Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name, that I think applies directly

It is always a pity when a show falls through the cracks, and with 375 Fringe 2017 shows that is

If not for a twist of fate and a bit of luck we might never have been witness to David

People are funny. In the way we keep making the same mistakes. Even when we're conscious of our tendency to run

By Ernest Kearney  —  David Lucarelli’s "Doctor Zomba’s Ghost Show of Terror" is straight forward fun.  As directed by Kevin

…and the biggest problem with democracy is that every damn fool gets one vote. You heard me right. The metric

By Ernest Kearney — Bad Jews at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble was hard for me to watch. Hard in the same

 By Ernest Kearney  —  "Gloria," the Pulitzer Prize-finalist, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is best described as an E-Ticket ride to the

“I was trained as a classical musician, so my approach to theater comes from a different perspective than most playwrights.”

By Ernest Kearney  — "Dracula's Taste Test" is no great shakes, but neither does it hold itself up as anything else.

Office Beat: A Tap Dance Comedy playing now at 2016's Hollywood Fringe: A review

By Steve Schlich  —  Admit it: you’ve clicked on the link “How the Right Lost Its Mind” and read with anxious

The Democratic field has lost half since we last spoke. Not the Republicans, the Democrats! Joe Biden: gone, even if

Let's imagine one could take a heaping jigger of Citizen Kane, another of Blade Runner, pour in a dash of

I can always appreciate Long Beach's International City Theatre even when I don't necessarily enjoy a particular production. Case in point

Sunset Baby is an intelligently written play with a superb cast that positively gleams from those benefits which blesses any

Deaf West Theatre has produced some of the best theatre to come out of Los Angeles.

Santiago Cabrera is Aramis.  Though they are, the four of them, multilayered individuals, Aramis would seem to be the one

When I started on this mission of writing about songwriters and how they weren’t being properly acknowledged, I had absolutely

I love Shakespeare. Straight up. If I could cook him down I'd probably be mainlining the Bard. Any Shakespeare junkie has a

By Ernest Kearney  — Bill Posley’s superbly slick, and raucously funny show, "The Day I Became Black," reveals to

By Ernest Kearney  —  “I was like Mozart in his day,”  announces Bartholomew (Writer/Performer Montana Cypress) from his sanctuary in

The Leftovers jumps deep into a mass of angst gurgling inside nearly everyone 'left' untouched after what may have been

In the words of an FTWD character: “When civilization ends, it ends fast.” That’s Right. I love The Walking Dead. The discovery that I

Every campaign has at least one noir moment, when (as in film noir) the protagonist tries to do The Right

There have been a number of performances that will travel with me for quite some time during Hollywood Fringe 2017…

The Boundless Artists Theatre Company has presented Fringe audiences with a production of the fairy tale The Little Mermaid, which

Game of Thrones Season 5 is coming. It's time to prepare. Take a look to see glimpses of interactions

"Chimera Bella," with cinematography by James Delhauer, is described as “an acrobatic journey”; I saw little proof of either.

By Ernest Kearney  —  "Uncivil Correctness: Joan Rivers, Abbie Hoffman, Bin Laden," apparently, began as a class project and, unfortunately,

Loser! The Tweet Defeat of Donald Trump did not begin with “Liddle’ Bob Corker” and his oh-so-devastating viral tweet: https://twitter.com/SenBobCorker/status/917045348820049920? Wham! Impressive. But

The 2014 Pulitzer prize-winning drama, “Water by the Spoonful,” at the Mark Taper Forum through March 11, is Act II

By Ernest Kearney  —  Still is a stylishly staged deconstruction of a murder mystery, involving three high school students, that

By Ernest Kearney — "Catastrophe!" is unfortunately the most aptly named show of this year’s Hollywood Fringe.

• With the title, Out, Damned Spot, you probably would've expected the sixth episode to keenly focus on eldest son

Coming Soon!!

By Ernest Kearney — "Tattered Capes" by Gregory Crafts is like a Graphic Novel for the serious Graphic

A recap of The Musketeers — Season One. Season Two begins January 17, 9/8c only on BBC America.

By Ernest Kearney — Are we the sum of our parts, or our parts themselves? Can we ever be

Theatre Unleashed, who has employed a sense of intelligence and willingness to push the envelope over the ensuing years,

The audience has come to The Lovelace Studio Theatre in the Wallis Center for the Performing Arts, in expectation of

If that be the fashion of your dreams then I say hold on to those dreams

Ready. Set. Time for more AMC’s Better Call Saul and Fargo (FX); among the most—if not the most—highly anticipated return

What "Help! I Might be Fabulous" presents is a modern fable by way of Stonewall and "La Cage aux Folles,"

The Tragedy of JFK (as told by Wm. Shakespeare) is cleverly conceived, beautifully acted and stylishly staged. (If this review

I expected President Drumpf to embarrass himself—and us by proxy—when he went abroad last month. He did not disappoint, so

By Ernest Kearney — Premise-wise "Small Mouth Sounds," by Playwright Bess Wohl, has a lot of potential. The highly touted

When the bar is set as high as writer/director David Hare and thespian extraordinaire Bill Nighy (yes, I am biased)

By Ernest Kearney — An Amazing Abyss of Artsy Abstract Absurdity.* I ran into Mitchell Bisschop, ("Pit

What does this all mean? A flashy, vulgar celebrity/businessman runs for public office with no prior experience except having run a

Rectify creator Ray McKinnon had a seed of an idea: "I was just interested in the life of a man

The TVolution Hollywood Fringe Festival Awards Coming Soon!

The Wrecking Crew were a group of uncredited Los Angeles studio musicians who played on and created hundreds of hit

And when chemotherapy fails, what’s left—Kryptonite? There’s no easy cure for the cancer that is metastasizing in the Republican Party right

by Ernest Kearney  —  IAMA Theatre Company’s production, "Sinner’s Laundry," at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood, can be summed up

By Ernest Kearney — I always say, at least to anyone willing to listen, that the two most common types

Never start off your career with a masterpiece. Where do you go from there? Known in some circles as the Joseph Kesselring

Panos Vlahos, making his U.S. debut at Hollywood Fringe (2017) in “Mistero Buffo,” combed three pieces from the last half

By Ernest Kearney  —  In my opinion, Long Beach’s International City Theatre artistic director, caryn desai has a genius for

"If you want to live, come with me – and keep in harmony" Yes, I troll Netflix, the cable channels, and

THE GOLD MEDALS: ANNA IN THE DARKNESS LA LA LA STRADA NELL GWYNNE – A DRAMATICK ESSAYE ON ACTING AND PROSTITUTION SHAKESPEARE'S LAST NIGHT

By Ernest Kearney — The power of story is in its journey, it matters little whether that journey is Odysseus’s,

By Ernest Kearney  —  The School of Night and its Artistic Director, Christopher Johnson can always be counted on to

Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile told the officer who shot them, “I have a gun.” They may have thought

By Ernest Kearney "The Mayor’s Debate of Tranquility, Nebraska" at the Complex Hollywood, while both a "Twilight Zone" doppelganger

"The Spidey Project" has been one of the most popular shows at Fringe 2017 and it’s easy to understand why

Ana Lily Amirpour's intelligent and superbly crafted film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is definitely a world view

The Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble never fails to deliver. "Ajax in Iraq," "The SuperHero and his

A few weeks back, Molly Ball wrote in the Washington Post about the 2016 Presidential Campaign’s “…rich irony that America's

A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story, a multi-award winning work by Evelina Fernández is fiercely ambitious, thoroughly and intelligently mounted

Periodically in the theatre certain works crop up at the most crucial of times arising in answer to some distinct

By Ernest Kearney — Readers of my Fringe reviews on TVO are undoubtedly familiar with the rating system I apply

Imagine a petting zoo where Caffè Latte is served. Or imagine you’re in the mood to find a cat to

What can be said about A Haunted House 2? My, it is rare to see such a testament to mediocrity.

"Stringmates" by Amanda Noriko Newman takes its core concept from the Asian legend of the “Red String of Fate,” the

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Well Hollywood Fringe 2016 has come to a close and with it comes the last of the Round Ups

By Ernest Kearney  —  Playwright Lauren Gunderson is the current “flavor of the month” of the American theatre scene, with

By Ernest Kearney — There are particular products, —merchandise, institutions and other…stuff— exports from the U.K., which the rest of

Seven years prior to American Idol breaking out on Fox to become one of the most successful and talked about

By Steve Schlich — My premise is brutal: business is a cross between a dictatorship and a junta …which makes