By Ernest Kearney — This was my first “mashup” of theatre and film with soundtrack framed within a concert rendering. "Love Actually Live" at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts starts off with points for me ahead of the game.
By Ernest Kearney — "Fool for Love" by Sam Shepard, which just closed the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood, is not a tidy play. In fact, as far as theatrical experiences go, it shares many of the same traits as Elizabethan bear-baiting; brutal and violent—with
By Ernest Kearney — The story of Jim Jones has material enough for any ten dramatists. In the production "White Nights, Black Paradise," which closed this past Sunday at the Hudson Theatre, Playwright Sikivu Hutchinson starts with the arrival of two African American sisters.
By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer Kathryn Taylor Smith has accomplished something remarkable with her one woman show "A Mile In My Shoes" currently on stage thru Dec 9, at the Hudson Backstage Theatre in Los Angeles…
By Ernest Kearney — "Pretty Dead Girl – A Musical Necromance." There’s a title that holds promise, wouldn’t you say? Written by Shawn Ku with music & lyrics by AnnMarie Milazzo (with some additional lyrics by Ku) this 2004 short film tells of
By Ernest Kearney — At the very least, congratulations must be bestowed on Writer/Director Amit Itelman’s "Bride of Blood" as hands down the wackiest show I’ve encountered in 2018.
By Ernest Kearney — We are told by author Alan L. Brooks, he is "a doctor, not a playwright – and he has a 40 year career as a radiologist to prove it.” First, let me get the “cheap shot” outa the way: “Alan, keep
by Ernest Kearney — Matei Visniec is a Romanian playwright who sought and was granted political asylum in France in 1987. Following the collapse of the Communist regime of Nicolai Ceausescu in 1989, Visniec became one of his nation’s most touted dramatists.
By Ernest Kearney — The Silence of the Lambs, the 1991 thriller directed by Jonathan Demme—based on the Thomas Harris 1988 novel of the same name/screen adaptation by Ted Tally—dished out one super genius serial killer with an appetite for sautéing his victims and another
By Ernest Kearney — "Gloria," the Pulitzer Prize-finalist, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is best described as an E-Ticket ride to the infernal regions of hell. Oh yes, indeed, the trip the Echo Theater Company takes you on, starts out full of fun and snickers; but a
