By Ernest Kearney — In their theatrical variation of the Three Card Monty scam entitled Never Ever Land on the stage of Theatre Unleashed, Playwright Rider Strong and Director Michael A. Shepperd have deployed all the needed dramatic elements –
by Ernest Kearney — What is the definitive symbolic icon of man’s crucible of flesh? The precise embodiment of his indarba to the narrow vale of life? Is it the Promethean Titan, Kafka’s Josef K, Joyce’s Leopold Bloom or Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane? Is it Faust
By Ernest Kearney — Nowadays most people, — particularly those generations born after the epoch when high school courses were given on the proper use of the slide rule and Johnson & Johnson Band-Aids® still came packaged with that handy little red “tear string”
By Ernest Kearney — The best theatre I’ve seen has been on bare stages, under looming oak trees, in gloomy, ramshackle homes. So whenever I walk into an equity-waver house and I see a really superbly designed (and undoubtedly expensive) set it always makes me
By Ernest Kearney — "I Am Not A Man" is a stand up routine trying to pass for a solo show, more than anything else, and usually those are less than successful. What saves this one from that fate is the sincerity of Writer/Performer Heather
By Ernest Kearney — There are seldom any survivors when a relationship crashes and burns, just those who walk away maybe a little wiser. That is essentially what Scott Langer’s "Thank You For Loving Me" tries to offer.
By Ernest Kearney — "Loose Underwear" has a great deal going for it not the least of which is Writer/Performer Dagmar Stansova.
By Ernest Kearney — I make an effort to see all the international shows and those productions coming from other states to participate in the Hollywood Fringe Festival early on in the festival.
By Ernest Kearney — "Let’s Write a Musical," played the McCadden Theatre at this year’s Hollywood Fringe. It is a show of contradictions, commencing with Director John Coppola’s usage of slender enactments in its staging that makes for a charming presentation of
By Ernest Kearney – "The Play That Goes Wrong" is a huge Hindenburg of a cartoon which has found its mooring mast at the Ahmanson Theatre. Perhaps the “cartoon” lacks the screwiness of a Tex Avery or Chuck Jones romp, but it delivers
