By Ernest Kearney — Laura Grimaldi is a whirlwind of a performer with a winning mixture of humor and honesty. In "Left Turns," her one-woman show, she slides easily into a host of characters
By Ernest Kearney — Now the funny thing is that the title, We Need This Musical to Stop Us From Killing Ourselves — the Musical! is slightly longer than the show.
By Ernest Kearney — "Fresh Meat" is set in a dystopian future where the world order seems to have fused into three distinct classes: cannibals, furries and butchers. Now the only category of that trio which may need some explanation is “furries.”
By Ernest Kearney — In his latest Hollywood Fringe Festival offering, "New Kid on the Block," playwright John Patrick Daly's heart is in the right place, and one senses he truly is concerned about the homeless people of L.A.
By Ernest Kearney — "Baba, Jee (Father, Yes)" is a solidly written, smartly directed and tightly performed piece. The story is straight-forward and has, at its center, one of the popular motifs of great drama — from "Oedipus to Long Day’s Journey into Night" —
By Ernest Kearney — Its title, "The Other Side of the Razor Ribbon," refers to the modern style of barbed wire one sees adorning those fence tops surrounding a standard correctional facility.
By Ernest Kearney — " Coasterthon Catastrophe: An Amusement Park Musical" is a rough, dopey, kinda silly, rather tuneful, utterly frantic, sorta fun, 45 minute songfest about a pair of pals left hanging, upside down, at a major amusement park when their roller
By Ernest Kearney — There is a great deal of love and passion that has gone into Shannon Penrod’s one woman show The Autism Mamalogues; which is understandable as she is a self-described “Autism Mom.”