By Ernest Kearney — Ideas are swarming in Josiah Blount’s flamboyant one-man theomachy ''Flayed, '' and we’re talking a swarm of the
Conceived, written and produced by Linden Waddell — who also performs, with Miller directing — Hello Again! The Songs of Allan Sherman is exactly
"Ascent" features the talents of dancer Adam Kerbel and Taiko drummer Shih-Wei Willie Wu in a fusion piece that displays more ambition than articulation.
The Hollywood Fringe is in full-on fourth gear mode. Festival Director / Fringe Founder Ben Hill with his “crack team of Fringe shipmates” have
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is a premier example of a thriving Los Angelean creative arts scene. Modeled after the famed Edinburgh Festival imprint, Fringe founder,
Starting June 1st and running throughout the entire month Hollywood Fringe 2017 will be offering up 356 shows; all vying for your attention. Tickets
Jack Lukeman has a voice that feels like a friend’s hand on a troubled shoulder. From his 1995 debut album — Wax, performing as
Forever Flamenco, have I said it once? Have I said it twice? I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve said it: “The Best
Please believe me when I tell you that Julia Migenes is an amazingly talented performer. She originated the role of Hodel in Fiddler on the
Beheadings– Fratricide - Infidelity - Parricide – Rebellion - The swain of Avon – And toe tapping ditties. One must admire the chutzpa Michael Shaw Fisher displays in Skullduggery for which
In Part I, we celebrated two dazzling effects of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s landmark musical Hamilton: with his theatrical retelling of our founding era, he has
It amazes me what a higgledy-piggledy of sources have served as inspiration for musicals. Little Shops of Horror, Cats, Sunset Boulevard are three examples of
Four Chords and a Gun at the Bootleg Theater, which relates the stories of when The Ramones worked with Phil Spector on recording their
At 100% full on energy the entire night, Garth Brooks IS the ultimate entertainer. From the moment he takes the stage, this man is
“Clip Show” A clip show is primarily a creature inhabiting the realm of television. Basically it denotes a particular episode, sometimes called cheaters, in which the
Just two years ago, documentary filmmaker Asif Kapadia began interviewing Amy Winehouse's family, friends and collaborators in a darkened London studio. Because Winehouse had died
When I started on this mission of writing about songwriters and how they weren’t being properly acknowledged, I had absolutely no idea that I’d
If you follow economic or political news at all, you know there has been a lot of discussion about our national infrastructure and the
The Wrecking Crew were a group of uncredited Los Angeles studio musicians who played on and created hundreds of hit records that became the
For the first decade of this century I didn't pay much attention to the music business. After close to 30 years in the business
"There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done." B.B. King The summer of 1995, while visiting my