HHF2019 Recommendations Round Two
By Ernest Kearney — So here you have the second round of Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019 offerings that sound promising:
“Les Miz and Friends!”– Cheap Laffs Worth Their Weight in Gold
By Ernest Kearney — We live in a world of tangerine despots, murderous religionists, a generation who places more credibility in lowlifes on the internet than organizations with 45 Pulitzer Prizes among them,
“My Life on a Diet” For-Reals and Other Goodies with ‘the’ Renée Taylor
By Ernest Kearney — Watching Renée Taylor’s one-woman show, My Life on a Diet, is akin to sitting on a veranda with the Statue of Liberty, after the two of you have knocked back a couple of bottles of Krug Clos d'Ambonnay and
Hollywood Fringe Festival ˈ19—The 1st Recommendations
By Ernest Kearney — June is slowly but steadily approaching, and with June comes that Saturnalia of the Arts, The Hollywood Fringe to fill the venues of the Santa Monica Boulevard theatre ghetto running from east of Vine Ave to west of Highland,
Howard Zinn’s “Marx In Soho” Hits the Mark At The Social Stage
By Ernest Kearney — Howard Zinn, the socialist academic, is most familiar as the author of the 1980 revisionist A People’s History of the United States, which managed and still manages to rattle the cages of historians on both sides of the political
“Too Much Sun”… Eclipsed By Its Opening Act
By Ernest Kearney — "Too Much Sun" by Playwright Nicky Silver, presently a guest production at the Odyssey Theatre, is a clever and witty work whose cleverness and wit is severely hamstrung by the looseness of its own first act.
“Ada and the Engine” in Fine Condition
By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Lauren Gunderson is the current “flavor of the month” of the American theatre scene, with her works the most often produced of any living American playwright.
“Forever Flamenco” at the Fountain Remains Hot-Hot-Hot
By Ernest Kearney — As I’ve been proclaiming for as long as I’ve been reviewing theatre in L.A., the hottest ticket in this town, as well as one of its best-kept secrets, are the monthly Juergas overseen and promoted by Deborah Culver at Hollywood’s Fountain
Laura Maria Censabella’s “Paradise” – Lost At The Matrix
Playwright Laura Maria Censabella's "Paradise," having closed a successful run at the Odyssey Theatre has now moved to the Matrix Theatre on Melrose Boulevard for a limited extension thru the end of the month.
“The Judas Kiss” Reflecting the Imagery of Martyrdom
By Ernest Kearney — There are particular products, —merchandise, institutions and other…stuff— exports from the U.K., which the rest of the world sometimes finds difficulty to appreciate.