“Loose Underwear” Suffers from a Loose Narrative
By Ernest Kearney — "Loose Underwear" has a great deal going for it not the least of which is Writer/Performer Dagmar Stansova.
“Beyond Glory”— and an Appeal to the Fringe Community
By Ernest Kearney — I make an effort to see all the international shows and those productions coming from other states to participate in the Hollywood Fringe Festival early on in the festival.
Let’s Write a Musical — Death, Where is Thy Sing?
By Ernest Kearney — "Let’s Write a Musical," played the McCadden Theatre at this year’s Hollywood Fringe. It is a show of contradictions, commencing with Director John Coppola’s usage of slender enactments in its staging that makes for a charming presentation of
The Play That Goes Wrong… and Goes, and Goes, and Goes…
By Ernest Kearney – "The Play That Goes Wrong" is a huge Hindenburg of a cartoon which has found its mooring mast at the Ahmanson Theatre. Perhaps the “cartoon” lacks the screwiness of a Tex Avery or Chuck Jones romp, but it delivers
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The Tvolution 2019 Hollywood Fringe Awards Are Here!
By Ernest Kearney — This year the TVO crew and I saw 76 shows and from those, here are THE TVOLUTION 2019 Fringe Awards…
“The Duchess and The Stripper” — History in a G-String
By Ernest Kearney — Blaze Starr, stripper and paramour of Louisiana Governor Earl Long (brother of Huey), and Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor who shook the English monarchy to its foundation, shared in common Baltimore as a home town.
“Princess Magic’s Trash Time Revue” — Talent in Search of a Show
By Ernest Kearney — I always say, at least to anyone willing to listen, that the two most common types of failures, theatre-wise, are those shows which are wonderfully produced but have no idea, and those shows that have a solid concept and are poorly
Propelled Power: Duchess Elizabeth, Eva Braun, Mamie Till – The One and Only Earwax of HFF2019….
By Ernest Kearney — Readers of my Fringe reviews on TVO are undoubtedly familiar with the rating system I apply to the shows I see. There are five grades. That wasn’t always the case. My first year of reviewing there were only three,
‶Temple Tantrum″ A Perfect Performance in a Near Perfect Show….
By Ernest Kearney — Fear and the pain we deny are the cancers of the soul. Having been raised in the Solid Rock Ministries, a right wing conservative Christian cult that publicly punished its disciples for offenses in the eyes of the community
The Tvolution Medal Listing for HFF’19
By Ernest Kearney — For The Tvolution Medal Listings for the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019, all shows attended are placed in one of the five categories listed below