“Othello” — A Classical Representation with a Twist
By Ernest Kearney — Of all Shakespeare’s plays save "Hamlet," "Othello" offers the most challenges to any cry of players, while also demanding they travel a similar path.
A Toolbox for The Resistance
By Steve Schlich — Above: #PlaidShirtGuy mocks Trump at a Montana rally. He (and friends) were eventually shooed off-camera, but the video is internet-immortal.
Unpacking The Vision of Ray Bradbury at The Whitefire Theatre
by Ernest Kearney As he espoused passion for both the city and its theatre, it is fitting that the late writer Ray Bradbury should find himself resurrected on a Los Angeles stage. (The Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks)
ICT’s “The Glass Menagerie” — The Final Weekend
By Ernest Kearney — In 1944 The Glass Menagerie established its young playwright, Tennessee Williams as a major new talent in the world of theatre, and of his 70 plays it remains one of his most highly respected and most often staged. In this autobiographical work,
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“Special Bulletin”: Better Than Ever
By Ernest Kearney — It always pleases me when I revisit a film after many years and find that it’s as good as I remembered. Alas, that is often not the case. But if anything, the 1983 made-for-TV thriller, Special Bulletin was better than memory held. What
How the Left is Losing …Its Mind
By Steve Schlich — Admit it: you’ve clicked on the link “How the Right Lost Its Mind” and read with anxious hope that somehow, naming the beast would slay it. Alas, my friends. The Right did indeed lose its mind, but that was years ago, and
Creating Mass Movements — Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
By Ernest Kearney — In these turbulent and twisting times that find so many bewildered and baffled, suckered punched by the events of the last two years, I find myself in this punishing period for our nation oddly consoled by a soothing sense of déjà-vu. Yes,
The Heart of Murray Mednick’s “Mayakovsky and Stalin”
By Ernest Kearney — When the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was found on April 14, 1930—a suicide at the age of 36—his handwritten note read "To all of you. I die, but don't blame anyone for it, and please do not gossip.
“Under Milk Wood” Proffers the Poetics of Life
By Ernest Kearney — The Open Fist Company under Ben Martin’s skillful direction have done well by Author Dylan Thomas in their production of his “Under Milk Wood.”
“Blade of Jealousy” Delivers a Paper Cut
By Ernest Kearney — I can’t say I am very conversant with the 17th century Spanish Playwright Tirso de Molina. He was a fascinating contradiction of passions and pursuits.