SAMSON and THE BURNING BUSH – The Eleventh Plague Has Arrived with a Running Time of a 100 Minutes!
By Ernest Kearney — Why…? Why…? C’mon, why…? Really, why…? Why…? Why…?
‘GIDEON AND THE BLUNDERSNORP’ – Michael Gordon Shapiro Provides Music, Mayhem and Monster – You Bring the Laughs!
By Ernest Kearney — All through the enforced isolation of the pandemic, denied my needed fix of theatrical smack, desperately watching Zoom shows presented on YouTube to cut the edge off my cravings like an AA dropout knocking back bottles of Nyquil, I dreamt of
Alma Collins’ ‘Strong Like Honey’ Offers Strength Sweetened by Hard Won Insights
By Ernest Kearney - Alma Collins offers invaluable insights, in this Hollywood Fringe staging at the Hudson Theatre, and shows us that ithe journey can hold priceless discoveries.
‘I Hear So Extremely Loud’ – Ava Hase Looks into the Abyss our Society is Blind to…
By Ernest Kearney — Hase’s one-woman show, "I Hear So Extremely Loud," currently running at The Hudson Theatre, is composed of brief selections taken from a half dozen testimonies of those who have actually survived or suffered through a school shooting in America.
NATURE VS. Unsure at Whom it’s Swinging….
By Ernest Kearney — Karen Wilmer-West’s "Nature vs." begins with a nicely farcical melding of a totalitarian dystrophic America fused to an upper class ladies book club where the discussion is focused on the latest best-selling “bodice ripper.”
“Funny Bōnz, the ‘Humerus’ Solution” is a Bonanza of Cheap Laffs!
By Ernest Kearney — "Funny Bonz, the Humerus Solution" by the P3 Theatre Company suffers from a lack of slickness in some of the performances, which expresses itself by that naturalness and ease on stage which, in turn, relaxes an audience and makes them the
In ‘La Divina: The Last Interview of Maria Callas’ Shelley Cooper Hits all the High Notes
By Ernest Kearney — Maria Callas (1923-1977) left an indelible mark as one of the most gifted and influential opera singers of the 20th century if not “the most.”
Gordon Stephen Matheson Jr.’s ‘No Matter Watt – The Musical!’ and why it does Matter
by Ernest Kearney — It was fitting that the first show of the Hollywood Fringe Festival '21, for this reviewer, was Gordon Stephen Matheson Jr.’s "No Matter Watt – The Musical!" in that it embodies some of the essential and mandatory elements that give luster
“Liz Estrada” All I Am Saying Is Give War a Chance
By Ernest Kearney — "Lysistrata," the 411 BCE “anti-war,” “feminist” play by ancient Greece’s, King of Comedy, Aristophanes has endured many, many efforts at adaptation over the centuries. The recent re-workings are impressive by the extent of their diversity
NO MISSTEPS IN WOCHNER’S ‘7 STEP PROCESS’
By Ernest Kearney — If 'The Seven Step Process' by Lee Wochner is the last Zoom-play I sit through, it will be nice to say I went out on a high point.