The Arts

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

At 60, when most people are planning for retirement or researching where they're going to spend the remainder of their days, Stevenson Ranch resident Braddon

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…