by Ernest Kearney — The origins of Taiko drumming in Japan is lost in that vast attic called history, but the conservative scholars will tell you that it appeared in Japan, between the 5th and 6th centuries C.E., imported from either China or Korea.
by Ernest Kearney — Imagine if Donald Trump was president for life, that all the TV stations were operated by Fox News and that the nation’s population was an overwhelming mish-mash of “dittoheads,” “truthers,” and “birthers.” Well, welcome to Bassem Youssef’s world. If that name sounds vaguely
by Ernest Kearney — In "Keith Moon the Real Me," playing at Hudson Theatre’s Maintstage thru April 15, writer and performer Mick Berry certainly does look the part, bearing more than a passing resemblance to the drummer who died of an over-dose in 1978
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
