‘Poor Clare’ by The Echo Theater Company Left Impoverished, Even More
By Ernest Kearney — The story of Chiara Offreduccio, AKA Clare, is one of the most beloved “ripping yarns” of the Catholic Church.
Carla Delaney’s ‘Worth It!’ Worthy of a Better Production
By Ernest Kearney — Carla Delaney is a talent to luxuriate in, with a lovely voice, sharp comedic skills, and a persona that can fill a small auditorium. These praise worthy qualities are very evident in her one-woman-show "Worth It!"
‘Blues in the Night’ – If Music Be the Food of Love, A Feast Awaits at Long Beach’s ICT
By Ernest Kearney - Since its Broadway opening in 1982 it’s doubtful a year has passed without there being at least two dozen (likely more) revivals of the Tony nominated musical, "Blues of the Night," all across the nation.
Mark Wilding’s ‘Our Man in Santiago’ — Cloak and Dagger With Chuckles Aplenty
By Ernest Kearney - "In Our Man in Santiago," Playwright Mark Wilding forgoes those subtle, silken threads from which history spins its webs, which is entirely acceptable since he’s penning a farcical romp and not a historical recounting.
Rachel Parker’s ‘The Wolfe & The Bird’; Guns Don’t Kill People – Parents Do
By Ernest Kearney — There’s a great deal that is familiar about The Wolfe & the Bird, Rachel Parker’s one-woman show at the Matrix.
The TVO AWARDS for Hollywood Fringe Festival 2021
By Ernest Kearney — Well, 2021 was strange in every way: The UN declared it the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, a mob of goose-stepping “Americans” cretinized political lunkheads and MAGA sophomoraniacs, who congressional Republicans mistook for “your average tourists,” and who attacked the
SUGAR AND SH*T … Bad Soup, Famished Horse or Baby with an Eye Patch.
By Ernest Kearney — “Sugar and Sh*t,” at the Hollywood Fringe Festival '21, is full of moments that clash and tumble and deprive both the actresses and their audience of the show that could have been. Which is a pity because
(It’s Been 76 Years and We’re) STILL WAITING FOR LEFTY… Who’s in a Rush?
By Ernest Kearney — With “(It's Been 76 Years and We're) Still Waiting For Lefty,” presented during Hollywood Fringe '21, Playwright Gregory Crafts has taken up the challenge of rekindling the 1935 theatrical fire set by Clifford Odets’s Depression Era drama.
WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD… A Radioactive Immersive Farce for Our Time
By Ernest Kearney — A time warped backyard BBQ where the hot dogs and burgers come with extra strangeness and squirt of inanity to go along with the mustard and pickles, in "Welcome to the Neighborhood."