by Ernest Kearney — Forough Farrokhzad was the subject of Sussan Deyhim’s The House is Black which I recently reviewed at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Little known outside of Iran, Farrokhzad was famously infamous in her native land, both, as a
By Ernest Kearney — The other night my lovely wife Marlene and I were out walking with a couple of friends, after a pleasant evening of theatre at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, when somehow the conversation turned toward the topic of
by Ernest Kearney — The world premiere of "Jackie Unveiled" by award-winning playwright Tom Dugan has been extended at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts through March 18.
by Ernest Kearney — It would be difficult to find two more dissimilar figures than the British lay theologian, academic and novelist Clive Staples Lewis and Sigmund Freud the secular Jew and father of psychoanalysis, whose theories of symptom formation, the unconscious, and of the
By Ernest Kearney — There is a great deal of talent involved in "Two Fisted Love" at the Odyssey Ensemble Theatre. On stage and off, the production is saturated with film and television professionals whose program notes would prime the salivation glands of about
The 2014 Pulitzer prize-winning drama, “Water by the Spoonful,” at the Mark Taper Forum through March 11, is Act II of the “Elliot” trilogy by “In the Heights” coauthor, Quiara Alegría Hudes.
by Ernest Kearney — That Sussan Deyhim’s The House is Black Media Project had such a limited engagement at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is unfortunate. Deyhim’s homage to the feminist movement in her native Iran and Forough Farrokhzad—one of that country’s “most
by Ernest Kearney — The Fountain Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of “The Chosen,” adapted for the stage Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok—author of the original work—is a well-deserved celebration of the novel’s 50-year anniversary.
By Ernest Kearney — Premise-wise "Small Mouth Sounds," by Playwright Bess Wohl, has a lot of potential. The highly touted New York production, directed by Rachel Chavkin, centers around six lost souls who gather at a retreat offered by a bestselling life counselor for a
There are identifiable years in the history of this nation that are shrouded in a foreboding of dire times ahead; 1860, 1877, 1914, 1918, 1929, 1941, 1963, 1979 and 2001. Like others, around 65,844,954 others, I foresee 2017 will be firmly fixed in that grim roster. But
