By Ernest Kearney — There is a great deal of talent involved in "Two Fisted Love" at the Odyssey Ensemble Theatre. On stage and off, the production is saturated with film and television professionals whose program notes would prime the salivation glands of about
The 2014 Pulitzer prize-winning drama, “Water by the Spoonful,” at the Mark Taper Forum through March 11, is Act II of the “Elliot” trilogy by “In the Heights” coauthor, Quiara Alegría Hudes.
The audience has come to The Lovelace Studio Theatre in the Wallis Center for the Performing Arts, in expectation of a theatrical interpretation of one of the great classics of English literature; that 183,349-word bildungsroman boasting six principal characters, 33 secondary characters and scores of
by Ernest Kearney — That Sussan Deyhim’s The House is Black Media Project had such a limited engagement at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is unfortunate. Deyhim’s homage to the feminist movement in her native Iran and Forough Farrokhzad—one of that country’s “most
by Ernest Kearney — The Fountain Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of “The Chosen,” adapted for the stage Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok—author of the original work—is a well-deserved celebration of the novel’s 50-year anniversary.
By Ernest Kearney — Premise-wise "Small Mouth Sounds," by Playwright Bess Wohl, has a lot of potential. The highly touted New York production, directed by Rachel Chavkin, centers around six lost souls who gather at a retreat offered by a bestselling life counselor for a
There are identifiable years in the history of this nation that are shrouded in a foreboding of dire times ahead; 1860, 1877, 1914, 1918, 1929, 1941, 1963, 1979 and 2001. Like others, around 65,844,954 others, I foresee 2017 will be firmly fixed in that grim roster. But
by Ernest Kearney — 'Antony and Cleopatra' has it all — magnificent history, towering characters, stunning pageantry and poetry of the highest order — yet it is one of Shakespeare’s least produced plays
Imagine a petting zoo where Caffè Latte is served. Or imagine you’re in the mood to find a cat to enhance your life when you accept an invite to have coffee and cakes at an acquaintance’s apartment. You go, and there you find the perfect cat. It
The Chromolume Theatre at The Attic has been the site of some stunning successes, and while their current production of Steven Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures," playing through December 17, is not of similar rank, it is still a staging of note.
