“Bride of Blood” Dripping with…?
By Ernest Kearney — At the very least, congratulations must be bestowed on Writer/Director Amit Itelman’s "Bride of Blood" as hands down the wackiest show I’ve encountered in 2018.
“A Splintered Soul” Drama in a Vacuum Splint
By Ernest Kearney — We are told by author Alan L. Brooks, he is "a doctor, not a playwright – and he has a 40 year career as a radiologist to prove it.” First, let me get the “cheap shot” outa the way: “Alan, keep
“Old Clown Wanted” — More Fun Than a Barrel of Monkey
by Ernest Kearney — Matei Visniec is a Romanian playwright who sought and was granted political asylum in France in 1987. Following the collapse of the Communist regime of Nicolai Ceausescu in 1989, Visniec became one of his nation’s most touted dramatists.
“Silence!” A Toe Tapper of a Musical is Born
By Ernest Kearney — The Silence of the Lambs, the 1991 thriller directed by Jonathan Demme—based on the Thomas Harris 1988 novel of the same name/screen adaptation by Ted Tally—dished out one super genius serial killer with an appetite for sautéing his victims and another
“Gloria” – A Heavily Armed Production
By Ernest Kearney — "Gloria," the Pulitzer Prize-finalist, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is best described as an E-Ticket ride to the infernal regions of hell. Oh yes, indeed, the trip the Echo Theater Company takes you on, starts out full of fun and snickers; but a
“Othello” — A Classical Representation with a Twist
By Ernest Kearney — Of all Shakespeare’s plays save "Hamlet," "Othello" offers the most challenges to any cry of players, while also demanding they travel a similar path.
Unpacking The Vision of Ray Bradbury at The Whitefire Theatre
by Ernest Kearney As he espoused passion for both the city and its theatre, it is fitting that the late writer Ray Bradbury should find himself resurrected on a Los Angeles stage. (The Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks)
ICT’s “The Glass Menagerie” — The Final Weekend
By Ernest Kearney — In 1944 The Glass Menagerie established its young playwright, Tennessee Williams as a major new talent in the world of theatre, and of his 70 plays it remains one of his most highly respected and most often staged. In this autobiographical work,
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“Special Bulletin”: Better Than Ever
By Ernest Kearney — It always pleases me when I revisit a film after many years and find that it’s as good as I remembered. Alas, that is often not the case. But if anything, the 1983 made-for-TV thriller, Special Bulletin was better than memory held. What
Creating Mass Movements — Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
By Ernest Kearney — In these turbulent and twisting times that find so many bewildered and baffled, suckered punched by the events of the last two years, I find myself in this punishing period for our nation oddly consoled by a soothing sense of déjà-vu. Yes,