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
‘My Dead Dad’ – Laments of an Engaging Son
By Ernest Kearney — In "My Dead Dad," Samuel Jae is covering very well-trodden ground – very well covered.(HFF23)
Jackie – A Tragedy of Mannequins and Wardrobe
By Ernest Kearney — 'Jackie' written by Austrian playwright, novelist and 2004 Noble Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is like a Rap-poetry rant inspired by David Lynch’s early films.
‘Befok’ (or The Desperate Attempt To Impress Iñárritu) – Stir Crazy In The Prison Of Our Passions
By Ernest Kearney — Inspiration for 'Befok' (or The Desperate Attempt to Impress Iñárritu), playing during HFF23 at the Broadwater in Hollywood…