Kayla Boye Embodies the Role in ‘Call Me Elizabeth’
By Ernest Kearney — Set in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1961, Elizabeth Taylor (Kayla Boye) shares with an unseen interviewer, and the audience, her life story
Lisa Pezik’s ‘Too Big for Her Britches’ – Just About the Perfect Size
By Ernest Kearney — In "Too Big for Her Britches," Writer/Performer Lisa Pezik is this side of amazing.
Ben Moroski’s ‘Dog’ – Disturbing Descent into the Darkness of Denial
By Ernest Kearney — “Lights up!” a voice calls from the darkness before explaining, “That’s a theatre thing.” Aptly enough, we are left in the dark.
‘Authentic Self: The Quarantine Diaries’ – More Authenticity Needed…
By Ernest Kearney — Bianca Singer has an engaging persona, but that persona seems out of place within her one-woman show "Authentic Self: The Quarantine Diaries."
‘A Terrible Show for Terrible People’: Show (Pretty Darn Good!) People (Jury Still Out…)
By Ernest Kearney — I am a self-confessed sucker for good clowning and Bonnie He offers that up in her one-woman creation, "A Terrible Show for Terrible People."
‘How To Be Japanese’ – A Pleasant Romp Down A Familiar Road
In her one-woman show, “How to be Japanese,” Miyo Yamauchi shows herself to be an enjoyable and very entertaining storyteller.
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‘Housewife ’52’ A Toe Tapping Indictment Of Testosterone Tyranny
By Ernest Kearney — Remove the focus of the hit series "Mad Men" away from the masculine realm of Madison Avenue, fix it onto the bleak domestic field of their feminine “better
‘Pig Farm’ — Some Bacon, a Lot of Fat
By Ernest Kearney — In "The Pig Farm," Director John Leingang and Writer Richard Klein crowd their stage with a cluster of genres, providing their audiences with murderous cuties, suicidal elders, asinine Christians, coldblooded mobsters, ravenous piggies and
‘Beowulf’ One Man, Approximately 10,000 Words, One Amazing Revelation
By Ernest Kearney — I see the barest of stages: nondescript chair, nondescript glass…half full of nondescript water. Some token of a set would help, I think. John Heimbuch wanders, literally wanders onto the stage and he is pretty nondescript himself: slacks, Standard Shoes, Ross Dress
Noor Inayat Khan: The Forgotten Spy – a Strong Performance Suffers a Restricted Structure
By Ernest Kearney — Actress/Playwright Almanya Narula’s choice of subject matter shows a keen sense of what is both the dramatic and commercial. "Noor Inayat Khan: The Forgotten Spy" is a tale of espionage, taken from the annals of World War II, that involves the