By Ernest Kearney — With his play Jitney, August Wilson provided the book-end for both extremes of his ten-play series The Pittsburgh Cycle, which explores the black experience in the America of the 20th century.
By Ernest Kearney — While watching a stage magician’s performance there is an unavoidable disappointment when one can plainly see the plexiglass boxes beneath the surface of the water he’s supposedly walking on, or when we catch a glimpse of the metal
The Tvolution is reprinting the following review, in anticipation of the upcoming production of “A Christmas Carol,” playing at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, December 4 through December 8.
By Ernest Kearney — Defenders by Cailin Maureen Harrison is an odd little hybrid, that comes across like M. Night Shyamalan had usurped from Steven Spielberg the direction of Saving Private Ryan. Currently running at The Broadwater in Hollywood, the play is
By Ernest Kearney — "Romeo and Juliet in Hell," written and directed by Matt Ritchey, currently being staged at the Actor’s Workout Studio is a rough and tough, rather ribald, ride.
By Ernest Kearney — In his 1944 play No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre famously penned, “Hell is other people.” In The Dog Log, the epistolary memoirs by Richard Lucas, I’m sure the author might insist Sartre apply the adjunct “And Yorkies too!”
By Ernest Kearney — Roberta Kathleen Parks, Audrey Nelson, Mary Jo Peyton, Shirley Marie Sherrill, Melissa Anne Smith, Carrie Ann Rois, Kathie Sue Pierce, Steven Tuomi, Shannon Zielinski, Sue Luna, Dorothy Keeler, Emeline Cigrand, Lela Kneiding, John Butkovich, Lisa Levy, Margaret
By Ernest Kearney — "One of the Nice Ones" produced in 2016 by the Echo Theater Company resulted in two accomplishments for its playwright Erik Patterson.
By Ernest Kearney — Jonathan Shapiro’s "Sisters in Law" now at the Wallis is based on Linda Hirshman’s bestselling dual biography on Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve on the Supreme Court.
By Ernest Kearney — In their theatrical variation of the Three Card Monty scam entitled Never Ever Land on the stage of Theatre Unleashed, Playwright Rider Strong and Director Michael A. Shepperd have deployed all the needed dramatic elements –
