Genesis of a Playwright
At 60, when most people are planning for retirement or researching where they're going to spend the remainder of their days, Stevenson Ranch resident Braddon Mendelson decided to become a playwright.
Cadenza … Can’t
By Ernest Kearney — "Cadenza," sadly, fails on every level. It is poorly written, and poorly directed.
‘Getting There!’ Rebecca O’Brien is a First-Class Ride…
By Ernest Kearney — Rebecca O’Brien runs for a bus. Projected on the back wall of the Hudson Theatre is the photo of a bus stop
Raise Your Hand…From The Dead!! (Gets A Thumbs Down…)
By Ernest Kearney — "Raise Your Hand…From The Dead!!" at Hollywood Fringe Festival, 2023 is onstage at The Broadwater (Black Box) in Hollywood.
‘The Month Long Ham Festival’ – Some Prime Ribbing, Some Spam
By Ernest Kearney — A big red balloon bursting is the first event of this immersive frolic during HFF23 by the NONSEMBLE, a troupe of performers drawing inspiration from the Fluxus collective.
‘The Portable Dorothy Parker’ – Travels Only So Far
By Ernest Kearney — Two parts success-one part not so much. What succeeds in this homage compilation to the pioneering journalist, critic, and poet Dorothy Parker is Parker herself.
‘The Jason Helfgott Experience’ – When A Movement Artist Doesn’t Move
By Ernest Kearney — Lean and long-limbed Jason Helfgott bills himself as a “movement artist,” and his "Experience” is onstage at The Broadwater in Hollywood for Hollywood Fringe Fest ’23.
‘Trying’ With Chance Lang Succeeds
By Ernest Kearney — "Trying" playing during the Hollywood Fringe Festival '23, at the Asylum @ Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre in Hollywood, began as a CalArts venture entitled Self Portrait Project.
‘Two Cats on a Date’ – A One-Trick Feline
By Ernest Kearney — Griffin Kelly’s one-woman show, at HFF 2023, is an odd little hybrid of a Disney animated feature and gritty French film-noir.
Rodney Gardiner – A Miracle in ‘Smote This, A Comedy About God…And Other Serious $H*T’
Ernest Kearney — “At a Caribbean funeral, grief is to the Holy Ghost what an 8-ball is to Rick James…” This is one of the lines from Rodney Gardiner’s one-man show