“Jackie Unveiled” — Extended at the Wallis
by Ernest Kearney — The world premiere of "Jackie Unveiled" by award-winning playwright Tom Dugan has been extended at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts through March 18.
‘Freud’s Last Session’ — The Great Debate is on at the Odyssey
by Ernest Kearney — It would be difficult to find two more dissimilar figures than the British lay theologian, academic and novelist Clive Staples Lewis and Sigmund Freud the secular Jew and father of psychoanalysis, whose theories of symptom formation, the unconscious, and of the
‘Two Fisted Love’ at the Odyssey — Lots of Talent, but…
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
‘Water by the Spoonful’ at the Taper—Does the Pulitzer Winner Satisfy?
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 Unadulterated Satisfaction in ‘Great Expectations’
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
Sussan Deyhim’s Gripping ‘House is Black’
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
“The Chosen” Takes the Stage at The Fountain
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.
“Small Mouth Sounds” at The Broad—A Review
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
Los Angeles Theatre —The Best of 2017
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
“Antony and Cleopatra, the Musical” — A Review
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