By Ernest Kearney — We have seen these types of shows, wherein one character is contemplating suicide; “Every Brilliant Thing,” “Suicide, Incorporated,”
By Ernest Kearney — You could say Brendan Hunt’s tale of leaving Chicago is, very, similar to the adventures of Dorothy in
By Ernest Kearney — Lady Penelope (Writer/Performer Penny Peyser) prances out on stage in her Elizabethan gown and red Kid sneakers. Apparently, during our
By Ernest Kearney — "Wounded" is an engine firing on all cylinders with a strong script by Jiggs Burgess, under the deft direction of
By Ernest Kearney — Take one-part Discovery Channel, one-part Hair, two-part Monty Python, mix well and you have "Bugs!" (HFF23)
By Ernest Kearney — Australian Singer/Actress Rainee Blake builds a time machine in the Three Clubs Stage Room for her homage to
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 — For Hollywood Fringe Fest ’23, the members of the NEO Ensemble Theatre perform seven short skits written by
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