By Ernest Kearney - In the brief 20-year period in which Tom Lehrer recorded, he established himself as the greatest musical satirist of the 20th century inspiring the likes of Tim Minchin, Weird Al Yankovic and Randy Newman.
by Ernest Kearney — The main problem with actor Eric Billitzer’s "Nobody Needs Another Hamlet," (playing The Hollywood Fringe at the Broadwater) is that just about every actor does need a director.
By Ernest Kearney — Why…? Why…? C’mon, why…? Really, why…? Why…? Why…?
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
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.
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.
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.”
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
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.”
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
