By Ernest Kearney — Oxymorons. Defined by assorted dictionaries as, “A combination of contradictory or incongruous words.” They pour forth from Shakespeare’s
By Ernest Kearney — Filling in for the regular stage manager, Miles sweeps the floor, readies the stage, and tries to placate the impatient
By Ernest Kearney — My passion for the art of clowning constantly comes as a surprise to most people, while I find
By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer Richard Shelton’s "Sinatra: Raw" is, in a fashion, the mirrored opposite to the other musical homage of
By Ernest Kearney — The frustration with one-man show, "Criminal Defence," is that Writer/Performer Murray Meyer has been a practicing lawyer in Los Angeles
By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer Drew Petriello has given his audience a war drama, a swashbuckling derring-do, a medical tearjerker, a tragic
By Ernest Kearney — "Cadenza," sadly, fails on every level. It is poorly written, and poorly directed.
By Ernest Kearney — Rebecca O’Brien runs for a bus. Projected on the back wall of the Hudson Theatre is the
By Ernest Kearney — "Raise Your Hand…From The Dead!!" at Hollywood Fringe Festival, 2023 is onstage at The Broadwater (Black Box) in
By Ernest Kearney — A big red balloon bursting is the first event of this immersive frolic during HFF23 by the NONSEMBLE, a troupe
By Ernest Kearney — Two parts success-one part not so much. What succeeds in this homage compilation to the pioneering journalist, critic, and poet
By Ernest Kearney — Lean and long-limbed Jason Helfgott bills himself as a “movement artist,” and his "Experience” is onstage at The
By Ernest Kearney — "Trying" playing during the Hollywood Fringe Festival '23, at the Asylum @ Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre in Hollywood, began
By Ernest Kearney — Griffin Kelly’s one-woman show, at HFF 2023, is an odd little hybrid of a Disney animated feature and gritty French
Ernest Kearney — “At a Caribbean funeral, grief is to the Holy Ghost what an 8-ball is to Rick James…” This is
By Ernest Kearney — In "My Dead Dad," Samuel Jae is covering very well-trodden ground – very well covered.(HFF23)
By Ernest Kearney — 'Jackie' written by Austrian playwright, novelist and 2004 Noble Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is like a Rap-poetry rant inspired by
By Ernest Kearney — Inspiration for 'Befok' (or The Desperate Attempt to Impress Iñárritu), playing during HFF23 at the Broadwater in Hollywood…
By Ernest Kearney — I am a sucker for clowns
By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Lauren Gundersen has a flair in farming history for fascinating feminists – astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt who
