A Forward By Ernest Kearney — In times of radical events, it is both courageous and proper to take action to address the failures of
By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Director Ken Roht’s hellzapoppin’ vamping musical "Vampire Burt’s Serenade" has a good deal going for it. Burt, a manic Nosferatu,
By Darwyn Carson — Now we know. "The Game's" Episode 5 delivered—as promised—the identity of The Mole. Clever writing, this, from series creator Toby
By Darwyn Carson - (originally published 12/2014) Just as we were about to yawn and say pass the potatoes please, three unique
By Ernest Kearney — Early Thursday morning, February 27, 2020, noted character actor Gene Dynarski shuffled off his mortal coil in a Studio City
By Ernest Kearney — 1940 saw an expansion of Secretary of State Davenport efforts to educate Anglo-Saxon Americans of the threats to their race.
By Ernest Kearney — H. L. Mencken, journalist and social critic had predicted it in 1920: “As democracy is perfected, the office
By Ernest Kearney – The pundits proclaimed the ski lifts in Hell must be working overtime, for Donald Trump had won the Republican nomination
By Ernest Kearney - In the midst of the Great Depression, Donald Trump’s pronouncement that he would seek the Republican nomination to run against
By Ernest Kearney — The BLUE13 Dance Company according to Paul Crewes, the Artistic Director of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the
Ernest Kearney — In choosing Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," Mat Sweeney, Jesse Rasmussen and Choreographer Sebastian Peters-Lazaro of Four
He's gotta go, of course. But Donald The Dictator’s raptorial reign is far from the only damage being done to our democracy.
By Ernest Kearney — The rich soil of Frida Kahlo’s life has, spreading just beneath its surface, the roots of a dozen
By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Stanley Brown's 'Huckleberry Towers' is a show not without merit, but one without definition.
By Ernest Kearney — First and foremost, one leaves 'Dear Yoko' with the appreciation that Anzu Lawson has lived one heck of
y Ernest Kearney — The story goes that while giving an interview, many years back, Playwright Edward Albee was asked his opinion
By Ernest Kearney — I give to you my personal list of the best theatre Los Angeles offered in 2019, with a
By Ernest Kearney — David Mynne’s one-man show of Charles Dickens’ "Great Expectations" knocked me off my feet last year.
By Ernest Kearney — The Collaborative Artists Ensemble’s staging of "Unraveled" by Jennifer Blackmer brings to its audiences a serious, solid piece
By Ernest Kearney — With his play Jitney, August Wilson provided the book-end for both extremes of his ten-play series The Pittsburgh