By Ernest Kearney — H. L. Mencken, journalist and social critic had predicted it in 1920: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain
By Ernest Kearney – The pundits proclaimed the ski lifts in Hell must be working overtime, for Donald Trump had won the Republican nomination for president when a great many Americans had rejected the statesman for a huckster.
By Ernest Kearney - In the midst of the Great Depression, Donald Trump’s pronouncement that he would seek the Republican nomination to run against Franklin Roosevelt in the 1936 election stunned many.
By Ernest Kearney — The BLUE13 Dance Company according to Paul Crewes, the Artistic Director of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, is reimagining “the classical forms from India, with an American contemporary aesthetic.” And that is true enough.
Ernest Kearney — In choosing Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," Mat Sweeney, Jesse Rasmussen and Choreographer Sebastian Peters-Lazaro of Four Larks have a wealth of themes and concepts to experiment with in their adaptation of "Frankenstein" at the Wallis Annenberg Center
By Ernest Kearney — The rich soil of Frida Kahlo’s life has, spreading just beneath its surface, the roots of a dozen plays merely awaiting the sun and nurturing of the right playwright’s shining creativity. With "Frida – Stroke of Passion" at
By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Stanley Brown's 'Huckleberry Towers' is a show not without merit, but one without definition.
By Ernest Kearney — First and foremost, one leaves 'Dear Yoko' with the appreciation that Anzu Lawson has lived one heck of a life, and she is a powerhouse of a performer.
y Ernest Kearney — The story goes that while giving an interview, many years back, Playwright Edward Albee was asked his opinion as to Sam Shepard. Albee responded with, “He writes good plays – about every third one.”
By Ernest Kearney — I give to you my personal list of the best theatre Los Angeles offered in 2019, with a few swipes at the less of the best…. First off, the production of August Wilson’s "Jitney" at the Mark
