By Ernest Kearney — A small town unemployed knuckle-dragging ne'er-do-well (Adam Ferguson) is approached by a producer of reality TV (Te’juana Johnson) with an offer. The producer will pay Ferguson one million dollars; he will have one week to spend the sum however he likes,
By Ernest Kearney — If most non-artists know the name Chris Burden (1946-2015), it is for the art installation “Urban Light,” in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Wilshire Boulevard, featuring 202 antique street lamps that once provided illumination to neighborhoods
By Ernest Kearney — Puppeteer Jean Minuchin’s "Still Life of an Orange and Other Puppet Parables" starts off strong and closes strong but… somewhere along the way, the middle falls out, leaving a center that doesn’t seem connected to the creative bookends it’s wedged between.
By Ernest Kearney — Still is a stylishly staged deconstruction of a murder mystery, involving three high school students, that shifts between the police investigation immediately after the crime to a random meeting between two of the, centrally involved, figures years later.
By Ernest Kearney — Michael Shaw Fisher has apparently taken to heart George Burns’ sage advice on how to be a success in “showbiz.” According to Burns, “Find talent and marry it.” That Fisher started out as a pretty talented guy has only gained a
By Ernest Kearney — The Burglars of Hamm are a delightfully merry and madcap lot. And if you needed proof of that, well there’s "Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk," which has been extended from its Hollywood Fringe 2018 run.
By Ernest Kearney — "The Importance of Being Oscar" is demonstrative of a particular difficulty in writing plays, scripts or novels dealing with historical personages; the author must always master them.
TheTvolution.com Award Tallies for mid run of the Hollywood Fringe Festival ‘18 (HHF18): We rank all the shows we attend in one of the five categories listed below:
By Ernest Kearney — It is a pity that "Shilo Kloko" was at the Fringe so briefly, because it offers a wonderful opportunity to experience Butoh dance theatre and Japanese puppetry art.
By Ernest Kearney — If you watch enough of the shows produced by that Fringe stalwart Michael Blaha you realize he knows one of the great secrets of successful producers. Forget helicopters flying over the audience or high-tech computerized video effects or a
