By Ernest Kearney — I always say, at least to anyone willing to listen, that the two most common types of failures, theatre-wise, are those shows which are wonderfully produced but have no idea, and those shows that have a solid concept and are poorly
By Ernest Kearney — Readers of my Fringe reviews on TVO are undoubtedly familiar with the rating system I apply to the shows I see. There are five grades. That wasn’t always the case. My first year of reviewing there were only three,
By Ernest Kearney — Fear and the pain we deny are the cancers of the soul. Having been raised in the Solid Rock Ministries, a right wing conservative Christian cult that publicly punished its disciples for offenses in the eyes of the community
By Ernest Kearney — For The Tvolution Medal Listings for the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019, all shows attended are placed in one of the five categories listed below
By Ernest Kearney — The Drama Theatre Fantazja from Sydney, Australia arrived at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019 with an international cast and a beautifully produced staging of "The Trial of Dali" by playwright Andrew Kolo.
By Ernest Kearney — Are we the sum of our parts, or our parts themselves? Can we ever be free to be fully ourselves independent of our features?
By Ernest Kearney — Sam Pasternak’s concept in “Public Domain, The Musical,” while poking fun at Disney Studio’s propensity for squeezing profits out of any literary character for whom it won’t have to pay royalties is simple and straightforward.
By Ernest Kearney — It strikes me that certain shows at the Fringe are trying to follow the success of "The Mighty Boosh," the surreal skit comedy that went from hit at the Edinburgh Fringe to BBC cult classic and one such hopeful is "Olivia
By Ernest Kearney "The Mayor’s Debate of Tranquility, Nebraska" at the Complex Hollywood, while both a "Twilight Zone" doppelganger and political parable is certainly the cream that rises to the top.
By Ernest Kearney — At the start of "The Last PowerPoint," which played The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019, the CEO of disIncorporated plunges into a room to razzle and dazzle his prospective consumers with a high powered corporate pitch to introduce his company’s newest
