April 2024

Entertainment, Featured, Features, On Stage, Plays, The Arts, Theater

‘Stalin’s Master Class’ – A Little Despotism in the Night

By Ernest Kearney — “A lot of trouble about a little music,” snarls Andrei Zhdanov (John Kayton) the Central Committee’s Chief of Ideology as he lords it over the two quivering souls before him.

Dance, Entertainment, Featured, Features, Music, On Stage, Plays, Special Events, The Arts, Theater

An Extract of Poison and Fire – 2024 Los Angeles International Flamenco Festival *

By Ernest Kearney — Oxymorons. Defined by assorted dictionaries as, “A combination of contradictory or incongruous words.” They pour forth from Shakespeare’s plays: “Sweet sorrow,” “feather of lead,” “wolvish-ravening lamb.”