‘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
A Noise Within’s ‘Metamorphoses’ Makes Myth Meaningful to Modern Masses.
By Ernest Kearney — "Metamorphoses," or perhaps more accurately from the Greek root “Transformations,” was Roman poet Ovid’s most ambitious effort and is, definitely, his most well-known work.
‘Wakings!’ An Enjoyable Excursion Towards Enlightenment At The Odyssey
By Ernest Kearney — Wakings! directed by Ron Sossi at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble consists of four short pieces, four riddles on the nature of what it means to awake and questioning what it is that we awake to.
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Hollywood Fringe Festival Returns for 2022!
By Ernest Kearney — Well like a phoenix rising from a pandemic pyre the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022 is here! Two hundred and twenty-six shows will entertain, amuse, inspire, thrill and dazzle audiences throughout the month of June. And here is a sampling of what
‘Tea’ at the Hero Theatre — A Ritual of Redemption, A Reflection of Righteousness
By Ernest Kearney — Tea holds a special significance in Japanese culture. Part of its importance can be derived from its introduction to the Island Kingdom in the 9th century when it was brought over from China by two Buddhist monks.
‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ — More Thought-Provoking Than Snicker-Stimulating — at International City Theatre
By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Lucas Hnath’s plays are an oddity. Generally, the core of any drama is the conflict generated by specific actions of the dramatis personae, with which the author has chosen to crowd his stage.