By Ernest Kearney — Australian Singer/Actress Rainee Blake builds a time machine in the Three Clubs Stage Room for her homage to Joni Mitchell, then manages to herd all of her audience into it to be transported back to 1976
By Ernest Kearney — Filling in for the regular stage manager, Miles sweeps the floor, readies the stage, and tries to placate the impatient audience while it waits for the late and very unprofessional Blake to arrive and start his one-man show.
By Ernest Kearney — My passion for the art of clowning constantly comes as a surprise to most people, while I find the general public’s dismissal of “clowns” as annoyances depressing and even distressing. (HFF23 coverage continues)
By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer Richard Shelton’s "Sinatra: Raw" is, in a fashion, the mirrored opposite to the other musical homage of HFF23, Performer Rainee Blake’s "Take Me As I Am: A Joni Mitchell Tribute."
By Ernest Kearney — The frustration with one-man show, "Criminal Defence," is that Writer/Performer Murray Meyer has been a practicing lawyer in Los Angeles for a good number of years, and during that period has pick up his share of stories worth telling.
By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer Drew Petriello has given his audience a war drama, a swashbuckling derring-do, a medical tearjerker, a tragic romance, a psychological mystery, a sexual psychodrama, poetic musings and philosophical speculations all wadded up in an allegorical fantasy played out
By Ernest Kearney — For Hollywood Fringe Fest ’23, the members of the NEO Ensemble Theatre perform seven short skits written by the collective
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.
By Ernest Kearney — "Cadenza," sadly, fails on every level. It is poorly written, and poorly directed.
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
