By Ernest Kearney — Hollywood Fringe 2024 has had a richness of clowns and clowning:
By Ernest Kearney — "Vice" is a futuristic, dystopian drama, chock full of revolution, the dominance of virtual reality to keep populations docile, a
By Ernest Kearney — At the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival, "The Girl Who Jumped Off the Hollywood Sign" —written and performed by
By Ernest Kearney — “Tomb” borrows from Stephen King’s The Shining and George Lukas’ classic THX 1138. There’s nothing wrong with
By Ernest Kearney — "Black Woman in Deep Water" written and performed by Makena Hammond, under Jane Fleiss Brogger’s, direction is a pearl whose
By Ernest Kearney — Joyce Lee’s "The Dean’s Office" approaches a number of vital issues involving the propagation of systemic racism in the learning
By Ernest Kearney — Ruchi Kishore, creator and star of "Dirty Chai – a hip-hop bollywood musical" which recently played during the Hollywood Fringe
By Ernest Kearney — “The Easter Bunny” is a self-described live stream “urban horror story” by Canada’s Marbles Theatre Group. It
By Ernest Kearney - In this refashioning of the first chapter from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, "The Great Gatsby," the audience is realigned
"Toshanisha – The New Normal" is a collaboration between South America’s Os Satyros and Africa’s Bold Theatre Kenya, and
By Ernest Kearney — There are three types of shows I am always in hopes of finding, which keeps me returning, year after year,
By Ernest Kearney — "Goldbaby" is a sketch group cut from the same cloth as Saturday Night Live, but, to their credit, the group
By Ernest Kearney — “EGG,” a clever dance piece chronicling a woman’s life from birth, by Australian Performer Erin Fowler is one
By Ernest Kearney — In "Estrawbery Fields Forever" (HFF'21), Verenice Zuniga shares with her audiences a journey. Unfortunately it is a journey less like
By Ernest Kearney — The love story of Lady Shizuka Gozen (1165 – 1211) and the legendary samurai Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 – 1189)
By Ernest Kearney — In "Deconstructing Holly," the courage shown by Playwright/Performer Holly Sidell in recounting her long struggle against cancer, resulting
By Ernest Kearney - In the brief 20-year period in which Tom Lehrer recorded, he established himself as the greatest musical satirist of the
by Ernest Kearney — The main problem with actor Eric Billitzer’s "Nobody Needs Another Hamlet," (playing The Hollywood Fringe at the Broadwater) is that
By Ernest Kearney — Why…? Why…? C’mon, why…? Really, why…? Why…? Why…?
By Ernest Kearney — All through the enforced isolation of the pandemic, denied my needed fix of theatrical smack, desperately watching Zoom shows presented
By Ernest Kearney - Alma Collins offers invaluable insights, in this Hollywood Fringe staging at the Hudson Theatre, and shows us that ithe journey