By Ernest Kearney — "Too Much Sun" by Playwright Nicky Silver, presently a guest production at the Odyssey Theatre, is a clever and witty work whose cleverness and wit is severely hamstrung by the looseness of its own first act.
By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Lauren Gunderson is the current “flavor of the month” of the American theatre scene, with her works the most often produced of any living American playwright.
By Ernest Kearney — As I’ve been proclaiming for as long as I’ve been reviewing theatre in L.A., the hottest ticket in this town, as well as one of its best-kept secrets, are the monthly Juergas overseen and promoted by Deborah Culver at Hollywood’s Fountain
Playwright Laura Maria Censabella's "Paradise," having closed a successful run at the Odyssey Theatre has now moved to the Matrix Theatre on Melrose Boulevard for a limited extension thru the end of the month.
By Ernest Kearney — There are particular products, —merchandise, institutions and other…stuff— exports from the U.K., which the rest of the world sometimes finds difficulty to appreciate.
By Ernest Kearney — At its best, theatre spans vast separations of time and culture revealing how shared struggles makes a community of all humanity. And this is what Idris Goodwin’s "Hype Man" at The Fountain Theatre, strives to do with its story of a
By Ernest Kearney — The Old Man and the Old Moon is an assemblage of all the elements that made theatre the earliest and most essential of humanity’s creative expressions:The making of myth and spinning of stories to explain the inexplicable, and
By Ernest Kearney — " Miss America’s Ugly Daughter" written and performed by Barra Grant, the daughter of Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America, was once, possibly, an entertaining evening.
By Ernest Kearney — There is an adage in the creative pursuit of playwriting: “It’s easier to set them up than knock them down.” How this translates, in actuality, is that there exists an awful lot of plays with very strong first acts which then
By Ernest Kearney — As one devoted to the study of history, I knew of Mary Walker (1832–1919), but I confess, only dimly in being aware that she was the only woman ever to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
