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# TheTVolution

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- ['Black When I Was A Boy – Part II, Blacked Out'](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/black-when-i-was-a-boy-part-ii-blacked-out/) - By Ernest Kearney — This is the second installment of the autobiographical tale Cooper Bates first introduced to Hollywood Fringe audiences in 2018. That show, like this one, follows his journey from the small town of Hill City, Kansas as he tries to realize his dreams of an acting career. In this chapter, we are
- ['Coffee, Tea, And Gin' – Casey Alcoser and Lovecraft on a Loop](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/coffee-tea-and-gin-casey-alcoser-and-lovecraft-on-a-loop/) - By Ernest Kearney — Writer-Performer Casey Alcoser gives us a brief history of Lovecraft’s chilling monstrosities in this quirky Dadaesque sketch about the American fantasy/horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
- [Love, Laughs, and Lawlessness in – 'Oh, Lorraine!'](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/love-laughs-and-lawlessness-in-oh-lorraine/) - By Ernest Kearney — The first date that manages to spiral down from the awkwardness of the initial meeting into the flaming bowels of hell is not exactly a fresh concept. But when you have a cast of highly talented actors and a script where...
- ['The Last Dance From A Firebird' – The Descent Of Genius](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/the-last-dance-from-a-firebird-the-descent-of-genius/) - By Ernest Kearney — The first superstar of ballet was Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950). The remarkable fusion of strength and grace he possessed would lead to his being declared “the god of dance” by his admirers.
- [The Ramón Show & Friends: Collective Healing – Humor And Health](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/the-ramon-show-friends-collective-healing-humor-and-health/) - By Ernest Kearney — "The Ramón Show" is a public health service message masquerading as a Fringe show...
- [Sentence – Not Well Served](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/sentence-not-well-served/) - By Ernest Kearney — In "The Sentence," Co-Writers/Co-Directors-Producers Ainsley Ferrell and Hannah Moore have attempted to present a layered murder mystery...
- ['Five Years In Amsterdam' – De Slaaf Van Het Lot*](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/five-years-in-amsterdam/) - By Ernest Kearney — You could say Brendan Hunt’s tale of leaving Chicago is, very, similar to the adventures of Dorothy in "The Marvelous Land of Oz."
- ['Cross My Heart' – Crosses It and Touches It](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/cross-my-heart-crosses-it-and-touches-it/) - By Ernest Kearney — This Hollywood Fringe (HFF23) has not had a sweeter show, and the ingredients that went into making a success of "Cross My Heart" are few but well-selected.
- ['Dream Big' – Doesn’t Measure Up](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/dream-big-doesnt-measure-up/) - By Ernest Kearney — We have seen these types of shows, wherein one character is contemplating suicide; “Every Brilliant Thing,” “Suicide, Incorporated,” “'Night, Mother” and others...
- ['Sonnets From Suburbia' – A Little Bard in the Night](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/sonnets-from-suburbia-a-little-bard-in-the-night/) - By Ernest Kearney — Lady Penelope (Writer/Performer Penny Peyser) prances out on stage in her Elizabethan gown and red Kid sneakers. Apparently, during our long national quarantine, she was perfectly snug with her cat, composing sonnets while in blissful solitude. Lady Penelope abhors modern free verse, lamenting “A poem without a rhyme is like a
- ['Wounded' – Shows That Vengeance Is The Great Salve](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/wounded-shows-that-vengeance-is-the-great-salve/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Wounded" is an engine firing on all cylinders with a strong script by Jiggs Burgess, under the deft direction of Spencer Frankeberger.
- [Good News: Bugs Didn’t Bug Me!](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/good-news-bugs-didnt-bug-me/) - By Ernest Kearney — Take one-part Discovery Channel, one-part Hair, two-part Monty Python, mix well and you have "Bugs!" (HFF23)
- ['Take Me As I Am: A Joni Mitchell Tribute' – Well Worth The Taking](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/take-me-as-i-am-a-joni-mitchell-tribute-well-worth-the-taking/) - By Ernest Kearney — Australian Singer/Actress Rainee Blake builds a time machine in the Three Clubs Stage Room for her homage to Joni Mitchell, then manages to herd all of her audience into it to be transported back to 1976...
- ['Waiting For The Show' — Is Not Time Wasted](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/waiting-for-the-show-is-not-time-wasted/) - By Ernest Kearney — Filling in for the regular stage manager, Miles sweeps the floor, readies the stage, and tries to placate the impatient audience while it waits for the late and very unprofessional Blake to arrive and start his one-man show.
- ['A Retrospection' Reveals The Wonders Of Its Creator](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/a-retrospection-reveals-the-wonders-of-its-creator/) - By Ernest Kearney — My passion for the art of clowning constantly comes as a surprise to most people, while I find the general public’s dismissal of “clowns” as annoyances depressing and even distressing. (HFF23 coverage continues)
- ['Sinatra: Raw' Is Exceptionally Well Done!](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/sinatra-raw-is-exceptionally-well-done/) - By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer Richard Shelton’s "Sinatra: Raw" is, in a fashion, the mirrored opposite to the other musical homage of HFF23, Performer Rainee Blake’s "Take Me As I Am: A Joni Mitchell Tribute."
- [Criminal Defence – A Comedy is a Trial](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/criminal-defence-a-comedy-is-a-trial/) - 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 for a good number of years, and during that period has pick up his share of stories worth telling.
- [Heart of Golden Tar – Sinks Into Its Own Sludge](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/heart-of-golden-tar-sinks-into-its-own-sludge/) - By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer Drew Petriello has given his audience a war drama, a swashbuckling derring-do, a medical tearjerker, a tragic romance, a psychological mystery, a sexual psychodrama, poetic musings and philosophical speculations all wadded up in an allegorical fantasy played out within a human heart.
- ['Inappropriate' is Just Unsuitable….](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/inappropriate-is-just-unsuitable/) - By Ernest Kearney — For Hollywood Fringe Fest ’23, the members of the NEO Ensemble Theatre perform seven short skits written by the collective...
- [Genesis of a Playwright](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/genesis-of-a-playwright/) - 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 Mendelson decided to become a playwright.
- [Cadenza … Can’t](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/cadenza-cant/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Cadenza," sadly, fails on every level. It is poorly written, and poorly directed.
- [HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL 2023 ARRIVES!](https://thetvolution.com/2023/05/hollywood-fringe-festival-2023-arrives/) - By Ernest Kearney — Hollywood Fringe 2023 has without a doubt the most intriguing line-up of any of the years I’ve attended. Let's get into it.
- ['Getting There!' Rebecca O’Brien is a First-Class Ride…](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/getting-there-rebecca-obrien-is-a-first-class-ride/) - By Ernest Kearney — Rebecca O’Brien runs for a bus. Projected on the back wall of the Hudson Theatre is the photo of a bus stop...
- [Raise Your Hand…From The Dead!! (Gets A Thumbs Down…)](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/raise-your-handfrom-the-dead-gets-a-thumbs-down/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Raise Your Hand…From The Dead!!" at Hollywood Fringe Festival, 2023 is onstage at The Broadwater (Black Box) in Hollywood.
- ['The Month Long Ham Festival' – Some Prime Ribbing, Some Spam](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/the-month-long-ham-festival-some-prime-ribbing-some-spam/) - By Ernest Kearney — A big red balloon bursting is the first event of this immersive frolic during HFF23 by the NONSEMBLE, a troupe of performers drawing inspiration from the Fluxus collective.
- ['The Portable Dorothy Parker' – Travels Only So Far](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/the-portable-dorothy-parker-travels-only-so-far/) - By Ernest Kearney — Two parts success-one part not so much. What succeeds in this homage compilation to the pioneering journalist, critic, and poet Dorothy Parker is Parker herself.
- [READ LIMERICKS 10/13/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/10/read-limericks-10-13-25/) - Trump’s policies screw farmers, sabotage the economy, derail alliances, …and fail to lower the price of eggs. Refreshing to watch MAGA slammed by their own fearless leader …as planned! But friends, to be wry just let sleeping dogs lie ‘cause they don’t even know they’ve been scammed. The tariffs are really a tax Trump’s profits
- [READ LIMERICKS 09/27/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/09/32756/) - Above: Trump, happy for the distraction from Epstein Charlie Kirk’s memorial was also a debate… Charlie’s wife spoke from her heart about forgiveness. Other speakers spewed hate and fear. “The answer to hate is not hate,” cried the widow. Donald weaved and never shed a tear. _________________________ Trump’s verbal stumbling through every speech sounds like
- [READ LIMERICKS 09/19/25 ](https://thetvolution.com/2025/09/read-limericks-09-17-25/) - A talking head explained the crime, said CK’s death was big, Big Time. The reason is, you knew his name and now that death has grown his fame. But school kids met their gunfire doom that same day in their own classroom. You know you’ll never learn *their* names and so their deaths are…just a
- [READ LIMERICKS 09/13/25 ](https://thetvolution.com/2025/09/read-limericks-09-08-25/) - Oh, that military parade Xi that put on for Putin and Kim…and Trump. China showed poor Donald how dictatorship is done: ’twas demoed in a big parade that dwarfed the U.S. one. Donald didn’t get his kicks from tanks and armor plate. Instead he got instruction on how soldiers challenged fate. Who gives a shit
- [READ LIMERICKS 09/03/25 ](https://thetvolution.com/2025/09/read-limericks-09-01-25/) - The orgy dome at Burning Man got, um, blown away. The orgy dome went down at Burning Man… the wind gods blew it ‘round into the sand. There goes living lewd… you’re not kissed, just screwed, and the last resort you found was in your hand!_________________________ The art of the troll: Gavin Newsome scores big imitating
- [READ LIMERICKS 08/28/25 ](https://thetvolution.com/2025/08/32703/) - 9 years later, Colin Kaepernick is still blackballed by the NFL for peacfully protesting the treatment of Blacks. (ESPN cancelled a finished Spike Lee series about Kaep…Trump’s doing, no doubt.) Kaepernick's knee is still strong... the Powers That Be are still wrong. White men can’t bear all the guilt that they share, so those assholes still
- [READ LIMERICKS 08/22/25 ](https://thetvolution.com/2025/08/read-limericks-08-18-25/) - Trump’s body language: “I lost” Donald got played again, Putin got laid and then Ukraine and Europe got fucked. Zelenskyy gets nothin’ and Trump’s busy bluffin’ but everyone knows that he sucked. Donald seemed strong but that didn’t last long. He went on FOX claiming a win. But pix told the story: t’was Putin got the glory. At least Donald wiped
- [READ LIMERICKS 08/17/25 ](https://thetvolution.com/2025/08/read-limericks-08-17-25/)
- [READ LIMERICKS 08/15/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/08/read-limericks-08-11-25/) - Trump Demands Homeless People Move Out of Washington, DC ‘Immediately' Drumpf wants the homeless gone now; He’s vague on just where or how. "Shoot ‘em or truck ‘em? The point is, folks: fuck ‘em! …It’s okay—I'm holier than thou."_________________________ The new Truth Social chatbot contradicts Trump Truth Social chatbot caught telling the truth: The tariffs,
- [READ LIMERICKS 08/08/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/08/read-limericks-08-04-25/) - Putin and Trump exchange idle threats. Poor Donald thinks he’s unfriended; it’s looks like this bromance has ended.He’s put up his dukes…but they're missiles with nukes!It’s scary what might be intended._________________________ Trump says bad jobs data was rigged…because that’s what *he’ll* do now, if he can. Trump claims the numbers were rigged ‘Cause that’s
- [READ LIMERICKS 08/01/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/07/read-limericks-07-28-25/) - Trump hates woke. Guess why… You know “anti-woke” is a monsterous joke …the goal is to keep you asleep. No critical thinking! Obey without blinking! You’re the ones groomed to be sheep. This dictator hates us, he lives to berate us; he’s always been up to no good. We can’t win for trying, we’re all
- [READ LIMERICKS 07/25/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/07/read-limericks-07-21-25/) - Trump calls his own supporters stupid. (He’s a little slow himself: he just figured out that Putin is playing him.) The Epstein hoax finds Donald fuming; conspiracy theories keep blooming. Why be so snide if there’s nothing to hide? Your cover-up lies keep ballooning._________________________ Trump calls his own supporters stupid. Why do you shield pedophiles,
- [READ LIMERICKS 07/19/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/07/read-limericks-07-14-25/) - Grok spouts the ugly opinions of Musk, its master. Love of Hitler, for example. The chatbot knows what to say next. They trained it with truckloads of text. But quoting, this raven said words harsh and craven, fed straight from the id, sans subtext._________________________ Is racist Grok consuming Musk’s tweets? When AIs can think for
- [READ LIMERICKS 07/11/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/07/32603/) - If FDR fathered the New Deal,then Drumpf just excreted the Screw Deal He’s starving the Poor so theRich can have more, it’swhere your chin meets Herr Trump’s boot heel._________________________ Trump suggested carving his own face into Mt. Rushmore. Delusional! Add Drumpf to Rushmore? There’s rocks in your head. First: as with money, you’re s’posed to
- [READ LIMERICKS 07/03/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/06/read-limericks-06-30-25/) - Trump insists—as usual, without evidence—that his bunker busters destroyed Iran’s nuclear program. Totally! But Iran claims that’s false. The truth likely lies in between all the posturing… The war of words should be amusing but counter claims make it confusing. Trump claims “we won” but Iran spoils the fun by insisting that asshole is losing.
- [READ LIMERICKS 06/26/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/06/read-limericks-06-23-25/) - Rock vs. hard place: Trump looked weak for holding back, but also weak for following Netanyahu’s lead. When Israel drops bombs, Donald follows. Those proud campaign pledges sound hollow.When Bibi says, “Jump!”“How high?” answers Trump.and down on his knees, Donald swallows._________________________ Hey Mr. Drumpf, those bunker busters set Iran’s nuke program back mere months, not
- [READ LIMERICKS 06/20/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/06/read-limericks-06-16-25/) - Trump loves Les Miserables. Someone should explain the plot to him. Les Miserables tells a tale: a tyrant sends poor folks to jail. And yet *his* offenses have no consequences. …Trump’s grasp of irony fails._________________________ Kristi Noem calls habeus corpus Trump’s “…constitutional right to remove people from this country.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_UIbsre2cY She’s got h-corpus reversed; Kristi
- [READ LIMERICKS 06/14/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/06/read-limericks-06-09-25/) - Elon Musk: this year’s Stranger in a Strange Land. Can you Grok that? Heinlein is spinning with shock;you're soiling the stature of “Grok.”You ignorant cluck, your philosophy sucks!The one thing you do well is talk._________________________ Trump sends the National Guard—and Marines—to LA with no plans for food, water, bathrooms…or beds. Guardsmen are stuck on the floor.Marines
- [READ LIMERICKS 06/07/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/06/read-limericks-06-02-25/) - The TACO man meme hits the internet... That TACO Man meme is the worst…it’s Trump’s nickname tactic reversed.He’s dying to tell us,“You all go to Hell!” butthe answer is “Loser, you first!”_________________________ RFK Jr. recommends health policy based on fictitous reports invented by AI, because they agree with his debunked conspiracy theories. I hear they’ve
- [READ LIMERICKS 05/30/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/05/read-limericks-05-26-25/) - No need to torch Teslas—they burn on their own.They’ll blaze while you masturbate on the way home.Musk claims that people burnedjust means success was earned…Tesla fails while the king squirms on his throne._________________________ Tesla batteries catch fire. Body panels fall off. 5 million recalls in ’24! Are you SURE you want him back? “Move fast
- [READ LIMERICKS 05/24/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/05/read-limericks-05-21-25/) - The House of Representatives might tank Trump’s "Big Beautiful" budget bill because—OMG—some *Republicans* oppose it! Wow—Republicans threaten Trump’s budget!So rare GOPs dare to judge it.It remains to be seenif they’ve really got spleenor they orate and later just fudge it. The truth is, they hate it because it’s not cruel enough. For example, you can
- [READ Limericks 05/16/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/05/read-limericks-05-12-25/) - Apologies to Leonardo and Mother’s Day… I figured out something today: Evil Trump art is passé.What truly would cutand turn MAGA guts?…to grant him a loving sashay. _________________________ Qatar’s proposed gift: a luxury AirForce One The new Air Force One is a palacea flying luxurious chalice.A bribe, there’s no doubtbuys political clout.It’s Trump’s brand-new substitute
- [READ LIMERICKS 05/10/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/05/read-limericks-05-05-25/) - Trump fires staff based on Laura Loomer’s conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories now rule.Believing will make you a fool. Ms. Loomer is blooming…it’s Trump who she’s grooming.He’s quickly becoming her tool._________________________ Trump “doesn’t know” if he’s supposed to honor the Constitution. The Constitution, what’s that?Some stupid rules pulled from a hat?I don’t have swallow it,ain’t gonna to
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/30/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-30-24/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME NOTE: I worry that my constant posting may be overwhelming thetvolution.com with short post after post after post. So I’ll continue rhyming just as often, but post it all just once a week, on Monday. Happy New Year! (maybe) Send Elon to Mars, that’s my hope…a throne for this wanna-be pope!I frequently
- [READ: LIMERICKS 01/06/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/01/read-limericks-01-06-25/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME My "firey resistance limericks" for January 6, 2025… Oh well, here we go once againwith Trump’s most deplorable friends.It’s easy to thinkamid the sad stinkthat we’ll all meet a horrible end. The MAGA barbarians loom.Our gates will be opening soon.With chaos writ largeand no one in charge…here comes the army of doom.
- [READ: LIMERICKS 01/13/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/01/read-limericks-01-13-25/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME Elon Musk and Nigel Farage went from love to hate quicker than a Brit can say, “Thanks Nigel, Brexit sucks.” Musk trading barbs with Farageearns them the label “garbazh”…The occasional gemsurfs this ocean of phlegmbut it’s mostly a shit-filled barrage. Bannon wades into the fraydemanding that *he* get a say. (uh, why?)It’s
- [READ: LIMERICKS 01/20/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/01/read-limericks-01-20-25/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME News: Forcasted bad weather forces Trump’s inauguration indoors, and limits the audience. So many MAGAs left out in the cold. Foreshadowing? Snow pushed the swearing inside,and ticketed MAGA-heads cried.Come on, break some glass!And then move your ass,to prove that you can’t be denied. Remember, you did it before…you busted down so many
- [READ: LIMERICKS 01/31/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/01/read-limericks-01-31-25-2/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME NEWS: Trump attended a prayer service (!!), where a Bishop asked him for mercy on gays and immigrants. You know, like Jesus would… “She’s nasty,” said Trump of a preacherwho asked him to not be a creature.This man known for whoringcalls morning prayer boring?I wish he’d man up and slur Reacher! He
- [READ: LIMERICKS 02/08/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/02/read-limericks-02-08-25/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME NEWS: Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. He doesn’t understand them. But we consumers will. The purpose of tariffs is clear:to make foreign purchases dear.So then we’ll buy local we’ll be U.S. focalto keep manufacturing near. But what if we’re only the buyers…we don’t manufacture, we hire?We need it? We’ll paywhatever
- [READ: LIMERICKS 02/11/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/02/read-limericks-02-11-25/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME NEWS: Trump proposes to ethnic-cleanse Gaza and build “a Mediterranean Riviera” …and his Chief of Staff reacts. Post-bombing, poor Gaza’s a messbut Trump’s got a plan to profess…He’ll clear out the rubble—which solves all that trouble!and build an exclusive address. Trump will cleanse Gaza, and thenthe homeland will be born again.A new
- [READ: LIMERICKS 02/21/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/02/read-limericks-02-21-25/) - MAGA folks worry that Trump won’t keep his promises. Seriously, when did he ever? What do Trump voters find scary?They worry their hopes might get buried.Will Trump keep his word?Oh, you silly old turd!He’ll bail when things start getting hairy._________________________ Musk says criticism by the media feels like a “daily proctology exam.” Musk claims The
- [READ LIMERICKS 02/27/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/02/read-limericks-02-27-2/) - Trump is ruling by fiat and the Replublican-controlled Congress is too scared to oppose him. The Executive Orderer thinks he’s a kingand he’s pissing and shitting on every damn thing.“If you can’t do it my waythen go eat some highway.”His “friends” are all sporting a golden nose ring._________________________ President Elon is at it again… “Summarize
- [READ LIMERICKS 03/07/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/03/read-limericks-03-07-25/) - Trump and Vance ambushed Zelenskyy on camera. President Asshole calls it “great TV.” The Donald and J.D. were crude,their treatment of allies is rude.You know where this ends…we lose all our friends.We’re so diplomatically screwed! You can’t make America greatwhile leading the world into hate.You’ve made us the bad guysthey’re watching with sad eyesas our
- [THE INSECURE MONARCH 03/10/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/03/the-insecure-monarch-03-10-25/) - “Long live the King!” Trump tweets. “And I am,” he tells his mirror. “Aren’t I?”
- [READ LIMERICKS 03/21/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/03/read-limericks-03-21-25/) - Trump hawks Teslas at the White House. Would you buy a used government from this man? With Swasticars sold off the lawnand half of its stock value gone, this Tesla’s a junkerTrump’s White House a clunker…there’s no warranty on this con._________________________ Trump’s tariffs screw US trading partners, consumers, farmers…and the stock market. Trump’s stupid tariffs are
- [READ LIMERICKS 03/28/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/03/read-limericks-03-28-25/) - “They’re like a kid in a nuclear power plant running around hitting buttons,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service (which actually focuses on government efficiency), when asked about DOGE’s measures. “They have no sense of the cascade of consequences they’re causing.” DOGE is a posse of punks…basking in power, they’re drunk.Pursuing
- [READ LIMERICKS 04/04/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/04/read-limericks-04-04-25/) - A Dept of Defense klutz invited a journalist to a top secret chat—on a public platform! Secrets don’t mean much todayOur leaders just give them away.The chat needed hypoinstead got a typoand let the war plans go astray._________________________ Leaders? Hegseth (DOD) and Waltz (NSA) are massively unqualified. The cabinet’s fools got a passHegseth and Waltz
- [READ LIMERICKS 04/11/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/04/read-limericks-04-11-25/) - When everyone kisses Trump’s ass, no one gains advantage. Tech Lords, beware who you serve.Betraying your base took some nerve.You all gave us upin pursuit of a buck.Now *we* get what you fucks deserve._________________________ Trump’s Reverse-Midas effect reappears. Why is anyone surprised? He says he’s a builder, but what is he building?He thinks he’s a
- [READ LIMERICKS 04/14/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/04/32354/) - Trump tells his base: hang tough. Then *he* chokes on tariffs. Twice. Hey—Donnie killed tariffs on phones!He blinked like he’s running from drones.The markets went downthen from tech lords, a frown…this coward just ain’t got the stones._________________________ While Trump brags, his victims make deals with other countries. Beware of the braggart who claims“They’re kissing my
- [READ LIMERICKS 04/26/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/04/read-limericks-04-21-25/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME Trump attacks the FED chair for not bowing to his orders. The economy’s looking quite lame, and Trump’s seeking someone to blameHe’s doing his worst to makePowell accursed, but thatwon’t douse our cash that’s aflame. _________________________ Trump’s base is showing discontent with his mistakes. Their nest eggs got caught in a slump.It’s clear
- [READ LIMERICKS 05/03/25](https://thetvolution.com/2025/04/read-limericks-04-28-25/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME SCOTUS says un-deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Trump says no. Contempt of court: Trump’s latest ployHe’s treating the law like a toy.Watch how he stalls…he’s all talk and no balls.He’s just looking for stuff to destroy._________________________ An internet Comment from years ago: “When do we get to use the guns?” Trump jails a
- [How to Wield "Weird"](https://thetvolution.com/2024/09/how-to-wield-weird/) - By Steve Schlich — Tim Walz was not the first to label Donald Trump “weird.” That honor falls to, of all people, George W. Bush…describing Trump’s blistering 2017 inaugural speech famous for the phrase “American Carnage.” But Walz, now running for Vice President on the Democratic ticket, put it back into play. Rumor has it
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/15/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-15-24/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME The Republican-majority Senate will yield to Trump like frightened children and approve most, if not all, of his inappropriate cabinet picks. The Republican Senate’s got rulesthe obediant yes-men are tools.Approve every clownor you’re gonna go downthe victim of MAGA-head mules. We’ll end up with cabinet hell…so many belong in a cell.In charge
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/18/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-18-24/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME Some people care more about banning drag queens reading about tolerance and help for trans kids, than preventing school shootings. On shooting, some folks take this stand:a gun in each school teacher’s hand.But drag queens who readand those trans kids who needyour assistance instead just get banned. You know what we’re teaching
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/20/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-20-24/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME Trump’s tariffs will raise—not lower—prices. And deporting migrants will deprive farmers of workers they desperately need. Rural life’s gonna get badas MAGA-heads learn they’ve been had.Non-sensical tariffsand immigrant sheriffswill make lots of small farmers sad. Who will be picking their greens?It won’t be Republican teens!No produce to selland high prices from hellwill
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/22/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-22-24/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME Elon Musk used Twitter (now called X) to kill a spending bill, and Trump tagged along. What else will the Shadow President screw up? Musk sticks to Donald like glue…clinging like shit on your shoe.He pops up like whack-a-moleeverywhere Donny goesstuck in our guts like the flu. Musk’s worth 400-plus bil,and Donald
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/26/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-26-24/) - RESISTANCE THROUGH RHYME SCOTUS’ 2010 Citizens United decision set dark money loose in elections. We now live under a plutocracy. Money from sources unsignedrenders transparency blind.Dark money, Trump’s honeyfrom sources not sunnyfor forces not funny or kind. SCOTUS betrayed us to greedpolitical darkness now breeds.Anonymous plunderwill tear us asunderand thus our democracy bleeds.
- [An Act of Love](https://thetvolution.com/2025/02/an-act-of-love/) - An Act of Love by Trash (A Guest Contributor Entry) - Some time ago, I was invited to a lady's home fairly late at night. She and I often explored our passions intotally uninhibited and usually strange ways. When I arrived at her place, I parked the bike and knocked gently on her door. I
- ['A CHRISTMAS CAROL' Rings in the Holidays at aNoiseWithin](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/a-christmas-carol-rings-in-the-holidays-at-anoisewithin/) - By Ernest Kearney — In the crown of Los Angeles theatre, one of the brightest gems is the aNoiseWithin Company. Productions are stellar in their execution, gleaming with both intelligence and craft. The current production of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, (adapted by Geoff Elliott, and co-directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Mr. Elliott) displays the
- [READ: LIMERICKS 11/17/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/11/read-limericks-11-17-24/) - Opinion writer Dana Milbank said of Trump’s leadership picks so far: “His administration is going to be just as incompetent as it was last time—maybe more so.” His cabinet picks are quite horrible!The Devil would find them adorable.From where do they come?…pulled out of Trump’s bum.They’re that infamous sack of deplorables. ———————————————————— Proposed Director of
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/13/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-13-24/) - A golden oldie: remember when Trump 45 and FOX News pretended to be at odds? Trump’s fix on FOX News lost its luster,complaints are the most he can muster.His State-TV whorejust ain’t working no moreand all he’s got left is his bluster. Trump’s feud with FOX News is a pose.It’s fake, like those wrestling shows.They
- [READ: LIMERICKS 11/30/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/11/32181/) - Some of Trump’s appointments are getting swatted and receiving bomb threats. Whoa! Do we really want to poke that bear? If we stoop to that level, it won’t end well. What do you jerks think you’re doing?Your high ground’s the thing that you’re screwing.Bomb threats and swatting?Go back to boycotting…harassment will be your undoing! The
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/04/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-04-24/) - Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a public drunkard, also accused by former colleagues of sexism. Hegseth’s a scoundrel and drunk.His rep has the Dems in a funk.Trump wants his historyshrouded in mystery—‘cause he’s an arrogant punk. Hegseth as SecDef? That’s nuts!He’d screw up the job like a putz.He’ll fumble the ballon
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/11/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-11-24/) - Trump’s proposed cabinet is dominated by billionaires. The billionaire cabinet’s spiel:if you can’t earn the cash, then you steal.They think they know all’cause their biz made a haulbut their view of the world’s quite unreal. The billionaire cabinet rocks!they’ll spend their time measuring cocks.They’re sure you’re entrancedby the bulge in their pants…but it’s lucre—not meat—in
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/09/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-08-24/) - Putin has Gabbard’s ear and Trump’s heart. And would love to have America by the balls. 1.The siren who’s bending your earwill tell you what you want to hear. She’s Ms. Informationand killing our nation’sthe goal that she holds oh so dear. 2.Putin’s wet dream is our fall…He’s pushing our back to the wall.You think we’d
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/06/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/read-limericks-12-06-24/) - Joe Biden pardons his son and liberals condemn his compassion. 1. Joe pardons his son and they shout,“How dare you give Hunter an out!”These aren’t Right lost souls, manthey’re Lefty assholes, andthey don’t know what mercy’s about. 2. You say, don’t forgive every sin.But nothing’s more basic than kin.Prove that you’re meetingto call out Trump’s
- [READ: LIMERICKS 11/28/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/11/read-limericks-11-28-24/) - All manner of sycophants have been swooping into Mar-a-Lago to crawl and bow before the Orange Overlord, and to beg for employment. Trump aide Boris Epshteyn sought exhorbitant personal payments from job seekers, an internal legal review found. 1.A steady parade of fresh foolsapply to become Donald’s tools.Onward they flow,what these toads need to know is
- [READ: LIMERICKS 12/02/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/12/resistance-through-rhyme/) - Trumpʻs electoral "mandate" is actually a modest plurality. More people voted against him, than for him. Three times now! It turns out the mandate is mini:Trump’s popular margin, so skinny.What’s sold as pure goldis so false and so oldthat the brass near his ass is quite tinny! - - - - - - - -
- [READ: LIMERICKS 11/15/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/11/limericks-11-15-24/) - Trump actually won the popular vote, and you can cry or you can laugh…or in my case, write limericks. I plan to do this several times a week. ———————————————————— Trump’s first appointments seem vile…Gaetz reeks far worse than black bile.His picks for defenselack knowledge and senseand surely will make Putin smile. ———————————————————— Trump’s reelection, my
- [READ: LIMERICKS 11/26/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/11/read-limericks-11-26-24/) - The proposed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called Covid a manufactured conspiracy and advocated ivermection and hydroxychloroquine as cures—which they are not. He will perform massive—and amateur—surgery on our health care system. Ironically, both ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are used to fight parasites in animals. Like Trump and his friends?
- [READ: LIMERICKS 11/24/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/11/read-limericks-11-24-24/) - Surely you’ve seen the photo. If not, it’s here. Forcing conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer Bobby Junior to eat MacDonald’s, food that a few days earlier he called “poison,” is emblematic of what Trump has in mind for us haters: you will eat shit and like it! 1.He fed RFK Mickey D…and *you* will now go
- [READ: LIMERICKS 11/19/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/11/read-limericks-11-19-24/) - Republicans are elbowing each other in the rush to bend a knee to Emperor Trump. But it’s not enough—now he wants recess cabinet appointments, .i.e., no Senate approval needed. Even without that power, he can avoid approval by using temporary appointments. For example, Acting Attorney General Matthew Gaetz. Oh, don’t worry… Senate Republicans wouldn’t dare
- [READ: LIMERICKS 11/21/24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/11/read-limericks-11-21-24/) - Trump and Musk: a match made in hell, and consumated—continuously—in public. This bromance of “equals” is doomed‘cause Elon and Trump can’t be groomed.One day each will knowthat the other must go…and set up a contest on Zoom. That billionaire cage match will bethe rumble we all pay to see.Thumb-typing, they’ll figure outwho’s got the bigger
- ['PASCAL & JULIEN' at the 24th Street Theatre – Theatrical Haiku at its Finest](https://thetvolution.com/2024/09/pascal-julien-at-the-24th-street-theatre-theatrical-haiku-at-its-finest/) - 'Pascal & Julien' by Australian Playwright Daniel Keene is a strange, halfling of a fairy-tale.
- ['JENNY LIND PRESENTS P.T. BARNUM' – Singing is Perfectly Intoned to its History](https://thetvolution.com/2024/08/jenny-lind-presents-p-t-barnum-singing-is-perfectly-intoned-to-its-history/) - By Ernest Kearney — Today most will know of Jenny Lind (October 6, 1820 – November 2, 1887), if at all, from the 2017 musical The Greatest Showman
- ['THE BUILD' –Theatre Well-Constructed](https://thetvolution.com/2024/08/the-build-theatre-well-constructed/) - By Ernest Kearney – Aaron Lyons has shown himself, in past Hollywood Fringe Fests, to be not merely a performer of solid talent but “a man of the theatre.’
- [Rachel Troy’s 'BABY' – A Magical Meditation on the Malignancy Of Manipulation](https://thetvolution.com/2024/07/rachel-troys-baby-a-magical-meditation-on-the-malignancy-of-manipulation/) - By Ernest Kearney — From the '50s on, psychologists plunged into the rather questionable field of study involving John Gluck, John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth’s work on maternal deprivation, the “Little Albert” experiments of John Watson and Rosalie Rayner on conditioned responses in infants, and the tests of behaviorist pioneer B.F. Skinner.
- [THE TVO AWARDS The Awards That Matter](https://thetvolution.com/2024/07/the-tvo-awards-the-awards-that-matter-2/) - By Ernest Kearney - Well, Congrats to all. This year TVO saw 64 shows and fully-reviewed 39 of them.
- [TheTvolution Medal Listing for HFF24](https://thetvolution.com/2024/07/thetvolution-medal-listing-for-hff24/) - By Ernest Kearney - Platinum shows are the standouts among the standouts, or those that...
- [SEXAME STRIP: THE NAUGHTY PUPPET CABARET SHOW – (How Long Have I Been Married?)](https://thetvolution.com/2024/07/sexame-strip-the-naughty-puppet-cabaret-show-how-long-have-i-been-married/) - By Ernest Kearney — For me, too much “naughty” and not enough “puppet.” But the Fringe audience loved this show.
- [B+ Mom: An Enthusiastic Guide To Imperfect Parenting – Gilding Uniqueness On The Commonplace](https://thetvolution.com/2024/07/b-mom-an-enthusiastic-guide-to-imperfect-parenting-gilding-uniqueness-on-the-commonplace/) - By Ernest Kearney — Melissa Greenspan’s one-woman show, I confess, was a hard sell for me. What can I say?
- ['Together Forever' – Left You Longing For More….  Much More](https://thetvolution.com/2024/07/together-forever-left-you-longing-for-more-much-more/) - By Ernest Kearney – By Ernest Kearney — On a small island surrounded by the man-made, turtle-laden lake in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, before the faux Ionic temple tomb of William Andrew Clark Jr., founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
- [DELUSIONS AND GRANDEUR – Venerated Clowning Perfectly Tuned….](https://thetvolution.com/2024/07/delusions-and-grandeur-venerated-clowning-perfectly-tuned/) - By Ernest Kearney — Hollywood Fringe 2024 has had a richness of clowns and clowning:
- ['THIS SHOW IS SURROUNDED BY TRUE EVENTS' – A Comedy With A Crippling Punch Line…](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/this-show-is-surrounded-by-true-events-a-comedy-with-a-crippling-punch-line/) - By Ernest Kearney Playwright Pamela Eberhardt has written a funny comedy that conceals, beneath the laughter, a very vicious “Bouncing Betty.”
- ['MEDICINE WOMAN' – A Yaqui way of Knowledge, But a lot Sexier](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/medicine-woman-a-yaqui-way-of-knowledge-but-a-lot-sexier/) - The" Medicine Woman" comes out among her audience passing out noise-makers, bells, poppers and the occasional twig of sage –
- [Batter Up: Double Play – What Can I Say, It’s a Home Run](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/batter-up-double-play-what-can-i-say-its-a-home-run/) - By Ernest Kearney — As someone who is bored to tears by sports and once even fell into a six-week coma when I accidentally turned on the TV to a curling event, I was amazed at how infectious Brett Moore’s "Batter Up: Double Play" was.
- ['ICE CATS: A DEAD MOTHER TRAUMEDY' — Mortality, Motherhood And Mayhem Meld Into A Memorable Show](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/ice-cats-a-dead-mother-traumedy-mortality-motherhood-and-mayhem-meld-into-a-memorable-show/) - Ernest Kearney — Alli Miller-Fisher has been a Fringe staple ever since I’ve been involved, and her performances both as an actress and in work with Cherry Poppins Productions...
- ['MEL MCGLENSEY IS MOTORBOAT'—She’s a Naughty Little Engine, She is….](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/mel-mcglensey-is-motorboat-shes-a-naughty-little-engine-she-is/) - By Ernest Kearney — Take Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita, replace the titular blond “nymphet” with Thomas, the cartoon train, then cast Betty Boop to play him - viola! You’ve got “Mel McGlensey is Motorboat.”
- ['QUEEN BEE' – Diagnosing Hive Death](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/queen-bee-diagnosing-hive-death/) - By Ernest Kearney — The folks behind "Queen Bee" were among the first I engaged with when plowing the collective crowds at the Office Hours. I
- ['WOODY FU: ONE MAN JOHN WICK' – Smart, Simple, Silly…Who Could Ask For Anything More?](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/woody-fu-one-man-john-wick-smart-simple-sillywho-could-ask-for-anything-more/) - By Ernest Kearney — Lionsgate’s’ quartet of John Wick movies constitutes one of the most successful film franchises in cinema history having amassed over a billion dollars in ticket sales between 2014 to 2023.
- ['CARTER TALKS ABOUT KODIAK BEARS' – And Does So Very Fluently ](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/carter-talks-about-kodiak-bears-and-does-so-very-fluently/) - By Ernest Kearney — For his first Fringe show, Carter Breeden-Villacorta comes off looking like an “Old Pro.”
- ['FURIOZO' – Through Clowning’s Glass Darkly](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/furiozo-through-clownings-glass-darkly/) - By Ernest Kearney — In his show "Furiozo," Polish clown Piotr Sikora develops an interesting relationship with his audience, one comparable to those relationships between the iceberg and the Titanic...
- ['SUCK MY TONGUE' - The Internet Age Seen Through “Marx Brothers Colored Glasses”](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/suck-my-tongue-the-internet-age-seen-through-marx-brothers-colored-glasses/) - By Ernest Kearney — During the 1950s, when advances in the field of computer sciences first emerged on the world stage, with all its future promise and potential shimmering in the eyes of dreamers...
- ['FRINGE! TONITE! ALIVE!' – “Hereeeee’s Alex!”](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/fringe-tonite-alive-hereeeees-alex/) - By Ernest Kearney — From the first mention of this Fringe Festival spin of the classic Tonight Show format with Alex Enriquez as its “Johnny Carson,” I thought it was a brilliant idea, and what do you know. I was right!
- ['The Connie Converse Universe Starring Hope Levy' – An Enigma Wrapped in a Mystery Gilded in Talent](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/the-connie-converse-universe-starring-hope-levy-an-enigma-wrapped-in-a-mystery-gilded-in-talent/) - By Ernest Kearney — After an hour spent with her music, we still do not know who Elizabeth Eaton Converse, “Connie” to her friends, actually was...
- ['Remember 92: Sierra Leone Will Rise Again' – The Horrors of War Come Home](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/remember-92-sierra-leone-will-rise-again-the-horrors-of-war-come-home/) - By Ernest Kearney — Since the period of decolonization in Africa, that continent has been lashed continuously with bloody internal conflicts involving nearly half of its 54 nations.
- [WHIM – Hell is Other Barnyard Creatures](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/whim-hell-is-other-barnyard-creatures/) - By Ernest Kearney — On September 19, 1783, the Montgolfier brothers inaugurated the French ballooning craze.
- ['Latitude' – Without Debate, a Deep and Daffy Discourse](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/latitude-without-debate-a-deep-and-daffy-discourse/) - By Ernest Kearney — “Latitude” by Aaron Francis is a daffy and delightful intellectual discourse between two migrating ducks...
- ['TRUMPERY'…..](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/trumpery/) - By Ernest Kearney — About five minutes into "Trumpery" I was shouting out where the treasure was buried,
- ['The Unspeakable History Of (Women In) Ventriloquism' – I Want To Hear That Unspeakable Stuff!](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/the-unspeakable-history-of-women-in-ventriloquism-i-want-to-hear-that-unspeakable-stuff/) - By Ernest Kearney — First Note: Hannah Leskosky is a wonderful ventriloquist. Second Note: Her show is too short.
- ['MEETING #7' – A Strong Concept Wanders…](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/meeting-7-a-strong-concept-wanders/) - By Ernest Kearney — Annie Kahane’s "Meeting #7" is a tourist advisory lecture for aliens and other intergalactic riff-raff immigrating to earth.
- [‘Silly, Sad, Swords’ – No, A Bit, Not Very Sharp](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/silly-sad-swords-no-a-bit-not-very-sharp/) - By Ernest Kearney – There was a mob on stage for this one, performing fourteen skits that mostly missed the mark with me.
- [‘How I Elected a President’ – Matt Lieberman Spoke, the Deplorable Listened](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/how-i-elected-a-president-matt-lieberman-spoke-the-deplorable-listened/) - By Ernest Kearney – Writer/Performer Matt Lieberman and Director Aysha Wax have delivered a slick and amusing mea culpa...
- ['The Border'… Is There Room on the Shelf Next to 'Cadenza'?](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/the-border-is-there-room-on-the-shelf-next-to-the-cadenza/) - By Ernest Kearney – I want every show I see to leave me gaping in wide-mouth wonderment.
- [‘The Dolphin I Loved’ – A Fine School Of Silly Fish](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/the-dolphin-i-loved-a-fine-school-of-silly-fish/) - By Ernest Kearney – Silliness. Wet silliness. Dolphin sex silliness. Just a whole lot of silliness, in fact...
- [Vivian Vance Alive And Well Running Chinese Take-Out - Galatians 5:12](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/vivian-vance-alive-and-well-running-chinese-take-out-galatians-512/) - By Ernest Kearney – There’s nothing like “Adventures in John Wuchte’s brain” to guarantee a toe-tapping good time in the theater.
- [Mark Vigeant’s 'The Best Man Show' – Murderous Matrimonial Merriment For The Masses](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/mark-vigeants-the-best-man-show-murderous-matrimonial-merriment-for-the-masses/) - By Ernest Kearney – If pushed to describe Mark Vigeant’s overall approach to comedy, I would compare it to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – only much funnier.
- ['Bigfoot! The Musical' – A Pic And Save Production - A Tiffany Payout](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/bigfoot-the-musical-a-pic-and-save-production-a-tiffany-payout/) - By Ernest Kearney – The Unknown Artist Company has taken this silly, simplistic musical by Tony award-winning Amber Ruffin and composer David
- ['BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOL': Zelda Fitzgerald in 1,800 Seconds](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/beautiful-little-fool-zelda-fitzgerald-in-1800-seconds/) - By Ernest Kearney – Zelda Fitzgerald was more than merely the wife of Author F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was an icon of early feminism, an author, an...
- [In Some Dark Valley: The Testament of Reverend Brand – A Brilliant Ballard of the Spiritually Blinded](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/in-some-dark-valley-the-testament-of-reverend-brand-a-brilliant-ballard-of-the-spiritually-blinded/) - By Ernest Kearney — The dark wooden canopy of the Appalachia Valley, known as The Great Valley, shrouds a deep and massive scar that cuts across the eastern landscape of America.
- ['THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK' – Lewis Carroll Meets Dick Cheney](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/the-hunting-of-the-snark-lewis-carroll-meets-dick-cheney/) - By Ernest Kearney – Sometime after the publication of "Through the Looking-Glass" in 1871, author Lewis Carroll penned his nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark – An Agony in Eight Fits."
- [Al FINE, This Titanic Doesn’t Sink](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/al-fine-this-titanic-doesnt-sink/) - By Ernest Kearney — All I was expecting from "Al Fine"— a ten-minute show about “the final moments of the musicians on the Titanic,” was a group of actors on stage going “glub-glub-glub” as they threw ice cubes at the audience...
- ['SAM' – Sweetness Substituting for Substance](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/sam-sweetness-substituting-for-substance/) - By Ernest Kearney – "Sam" is a sweet show, and writer/director/performer Sam Labrecque is an engaging and talented young actress.
- [SOFT ANIMAL: Creative Clowning in Search of a Show](https://thetvolution.com/2024/06/soft-animal-creative-clowning-in-search-of-a-show/) - By Ernest Kearney – A big one-eyed pink gob skitters on stage; a belching, burping, farting, gurgling kinda cuddly pink blob who wants to play catch.
- [Hollywood Fringe Festival 2024! It's Time](https://thetvolution.com/2024/05/hollywood-fringe-festival-2024-its-time/) - By­ ­­­­­­­ Ernest Kearney — Ah, there’s the rumbling that’s music to my ears. A rumbling rising up from actors emoting, directors interpreting, producers frothing;
- [Pat Kinvane’s 'King' — Helping Us Find The Voice We Deserve At The Odyssey — Maybe….](https://thetvolution.com/2024/05/pat-kinvanes-king-helping-us-find-the-voice-we-deserve-at-the-odyssey-maybe/) - By Ernest Kearney — A horizontal tango. A wailing of loneliness. A cleaning of the stage accompanied by a smothering profusion of lavender.
- ['Stalin’s Master Class' - A Little Despotism in the Night](https://thetvolution.com/2024/04/stalins-master-class-a-little-despotism-in-the-night/) - By Ernest Kearney ­— “A lot of trouble about a little music,” snarls Andrei Zhdanov (John Kayton) the Central Committee’s Chief of Ideology as he lords it over the two quivering souls before him.
- [Reviewing The Warren Commission’s Findings, Conspiracy Theorists who Reject Them and — while I’m at it — an Asinine Little Movie, “The Assassination & Mrs. Paine”](https://thetvolution.com/2022/12/reviewing-the-warren-commissions-findings-conspiracy-theorists-who-reject-them-and-while-im-at-it-an-asinine-little-movie-the-assassination-mrs-pain/) - By Ernest Kearney — Sadly, violence is all too often mistaken by the weakest among us as strength. Then, should they turn to violence, they’ll blame the world or fault society for driving them to it.
- [An Extract of Poison and Fire – 2024 Los Angeles International Flamenco Festival *](https://thetvolution.com/2024/04/an-extract-of-poison-and-fire-2024-los-angeles-international-flamenco-festival/) - By Ernest Kearney — Oxymorons. Defined by assorted dictionaries as, “A combination of contradictory or incongruous words.” They pour forth from Shakespeare’s plays: “Sweet sorrow,” “feather of lead,” “wolvish-ravening lamb.”
- [Stephen Sachs’ 'Fatherland' at the Fountain – A Sad Fable For Our Times](https://thetvolution.com/2024/03/stephen-sachs-fatherland-at-the-fountain-a-sad-fable-for-our-times/) - By Ernest Kearney – In Fatherland, Stephen Sachs has taken a page from such “documentary plays” as Michael Hastings’ 1966 Lee Harvey Oswald: A Far Mean Streak of Indepence [sic] Brought on by Negleck [sic] an indictment of
- ['Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street' - Serial Murder Musical at Its Best](https://thetvolution.com/2024/03/sweeney-todd-the-demon-barber-of-fleet-street-serial-murder-musical-at-its-best/) - By Ernest Kearney — There are those legendary hit musicals that graced the Great White Way to sold-out audiences and gathered enough awards to sink your average battleship.
- [L.A. Int'l Flamenco Festival: March 7&9 2024](https://thetvolution.com/2024/02/l-a-intl-flamenco-festival-march-79-2024/) - The International Flamenco Festival Features Living Legend 'Tomatito', 'Jose Maya & Rycardo Moreno' direct from Spain - March 7 and 9.
- [Harold Pinter’s 'Betrayal' Faithfully Realized at City Garage](https://thetvolution.com/2024/02/harold-pinters-betrayal-faithfully-realized-at-city-garage/) - By Ernest Kearney – Perhaps the greatest accolade that can be awarded to an author is when the undeniable ascendency of their artistry and achievements is rendered up as an adjective.
- ['Napoleon' — A Legacy: Military Campaigns and Josephine](https://thetvolution.com/2024/01/napoleon-a-legacy-military-campaigns-and-josephine/) - By Nicusor Ciumacencu — Growing up, I remember Mom obsessed with Napoleon, reading any book she could find about his life and his stunts. She talked to me about what a man Napoleon was, about Josephine and all his other amorous adventures. and now, as an adult
- [More On Scorsese’s 'Killers of the Flower Moon'](https://thetvolution.com/2023/12/more-on-scorseses-killers-of-the-flower-moon/) - By Nicu Ciumacencu — I didn’t know about the Osage Nation tragedy in the early Twentieth Century due to the discovery of oil.
- [Andrei Kureichik’s 'Insulted. Belarus' – Handwriting On The Wall At City Garage](https://thetvolution.com/2023/11/andrei-kureichiks-insulted-belarus-handwriting-on-the-wall-at-city-garage/) - By Ernest Kearney — City Garage’s production of "Insulted. Belarus," a chronicle of that country’s political woes by native son Andrei Kureichik, is commendable on a number of levels
- [Anna Quyang Moench’s 'Birds Of North America' Take Nest At The Odyssey](https://thetvolution.com/2023/11/anna-quyang-moenchs-birds-of-north-america-take-nest-at-the-odyssey/) - By Ernest Kearney — For a decade, each fall, the father John (Arye Gross) and his daughter Caitlyn (Jacqueline Misaye) spend time in the backyard of the family’s Maryland home bonding in that most serenely pensive pursuit of bird watching; referred to by enthusiasts as “birding.”
- [Finally 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' that won’t give you Nightmares!](https://thetvolution.com/2023/10/finally-a-midsummer-nights-dream-that-wont-give-you-nightmares/) - By Ernest Kearney — "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" ( at A Noise Within thru Nov. 12) is one of the most underrated, and in some ways misunderstood, of all the Bard’s plays
- ['Blood At The Root' – A Riveting Rashomon Of Race](https://thetvolution.com/2023/10/blood-at-the-root-a-riveting-rashomon-of-race/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Blood at the Root" by Dominique Morisseau (onstage at the Atwater Village Theatre thru Oct. 28) is a slick, stylish, very smartly devised piece of writing.
- ['Ghost Land' ­­­­– War’s Horror At City Garage Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/2023/10/ghost-land-wars-horror-at-city-garage-theatre/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Ghost Land," at City Garage Theatre, opens with the kindly face of a gigantic god staring down upon us, a god that we soon see is as sickly and as wounded as we all are.
- ['Elephant Shavings' –  Adventures In Ron Sossi’s Mind](https://thetvolution.com/2023/09/elephant-shavings-adventures-in-ron-sossis-mind/) - By Ernest Kearney — There is no drama in this drama rather there is contemplation, the drama of which is divergence, and its catharsis in perception.
- ['A Slight Ache' is at the Odyssey and the Possum is Gleefully Under the Serving Cart[1]](https://thetvolution.com/2023/08/a-slight-ache-is-at-the-odyssey-and-the-possum-is-gleefully-under-the-serving-cart1/) - By Ernest Kearney — “When a splinter is intolerable crucifixion is endurable.” The joy of Harold Pinter’s plays is in the unraveling of them.
- [Biden vs Trump - The Scorecard Game](https://thetvolution.com/2023/05/biden-vs-trump-the-scorecard-game/) - By Ernest Kearney - The Great Biden/Trump "Liar-Liar, Pants on Fire" 2024 Scorecard Game at last!
- [‘UNCLE FRANK’  or The Colors That We Lost and the Rights That We Gained](https://thetvolution.com/2023/08/uncle-frank-or-the-colors-that-we-lost-and-the-rights-that-we-gained/) - By Nicusor Ciumacencu — Before any analyzing, "Uncle Frank," written and directed by Alan Ball, is pleasant to watch, literally; its color palette is a joy to the eye.
- [From A Galaxy Far Away…'Party Down' Season 3 ](https://thetvolution.com/2023/08/from-a-galaxy-far-awayparty-down-season-3/) - By Nicusor Ciumacencu — I recently watched Season 3 of "Party Down," which ran just over a month from February-end to March-end of this year. This is a show I’ve been wanting to write about for a while.
- ['Exorcistic: The Unauthorized Rock Musical Parody of The Exorcist' – Glorious Toe-Tapping, Head-Spinning Fun!](https://thetvolution.com/2023/08/exorcistic-the-unauthorized-rock-musical-parody-of-the-exorcist-glorious-toe-tapping-head-spinning-fun/) - By Ernest Kearney — With a great many artists whose work you are familiar with, you can be assured of having an evening of great entertaining fun.
- [The TVO Awards for Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023!](https://thetvolution.com/2023/07/the-tvo-awards-for-hollywood-fringe-festival-2023/) - By Ernest Kearney - The TVO Awards presents 'The Best Of' for HFF23.
- [The Tvolution.com Medal Count for HFF23](https://thetvolution.com/2023/07/the-tvolution-com-medal-count-for-hff23/) - By Ernest Kearney This year, during the HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL, The TVolution & crew saw 81 shows and honestly, I wish we could have seen them all. “Medals” were awarded in one of FOUR categories:
- ['Rhythm Delivered' - Drumatix Puts Their Best Foot Forward…](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/rhythm-delivered-drumatix-puts-their-best-foot-forward/) - By Ernest Kearney — “Rhythm Delivered” features DrumatiX, a gaggle of tap-dancing percussionist clowning mimes unleashed on the Fringe by Choreographer Noa Barankin…
- ['Avital Ash Workshops Her Suicide Note (Work In Progress)' An Hour Of Shame and Snickering Most Sublime](https://thetvolution.com/2023/07/avital-ash-workshops-her-suicide-note-work-in-progress-an-hour-of-shame-and-snickering-most-sublime/) - By Ernest Kearney — In Judaism shame is at the forefront of it all. As related in Genesis, after their eating of the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve’s first expression of their new state was in hiding from God.
- ['Flayed' – Flamboyant – Funny – Flawed](https://thetvolution.com/2023/07/flayed-flamboyant-funny-flawed/) - By Ernest Kearney — Ideas are swarming in Josiah Blount’s flamboyant one-man theomachy ''Flayed, '' and we’re talking a swarm of the Biblical variety
- [Monthly French TV Picks](https://thetvolution.com/2023/07/monthly-french-tv-picks/) - By Darwyn Carson — Wish your streaming came avec un peu de français? From the Desk of TV5MONDE: Your pic of Films, Documentaries and Favorite Series. See How To Watch Below!
- [Ted Lassoed in Boringness Season 3](https://thetvolution.com/2023/07/ted-lassoed-in-boringness-season-3/) - By Nicusor Ciumacencu — EASY. That’s how Ted Lasso always felt - the story, development, predictability, expectancy, etcetera. An easy show with not many surprises...
- ['Titanical The Musical'  – Eat Your Heart Out James Cameron!](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/titanical-the-musical-eat-your-heart-out-james-cameron/) - By Ernest Kearney — Madeleine Lemay has created a silly short songfest about the doomed romance between the Titanic and the iceberg...
- ['Unwrapped: Life After Giftedness' – No Present to This Gift](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/unwrapped-life-after-giftedness-no-present-to-this-gift/) - By Ernest Kearney In “Unwrapped: Life After Giftedness,” Kira Wallace has done some excellent writing, filling her solo-show script with clever and exceedingly poignant lines.
- [Michelle Murphy’s 'Keeper' – Bittersweet, Very Funny](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/michelle-murphys-keeper-bittersweet-very-funny/) - By Ernest Kearney — A young girl who loves camp is at the core of the story in "Keeper," and her tale is one that radiates with sincerity and love.
- [Nick Pupo: 'Addicted' – Could Be Habit Forming](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/nick-pupo-addicted-could-be-habit-forming/) - By Ernest Kearney — Nick Pupo’s HFF23 production of his show "Addicted," did everything an audience wants a show to do.
- ['So Proudly We Hailed'  –  A Musical Salute To The Brave](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/so-proudly-we-hailed-a-musical-salute-to-the-brave/) - By Ernest Kearney — I sat through one presentation of the musical “So Proudly We Hailed,” then immediately sat through a second presentation with a different cast.
- [The Ending of a Succession](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/the-ending-of-a-succession/) - By Nicusor Ciumacencu — On a simplistic note, as a man, watching "Succession" from beginning to end, the feeling I had was “We will always rule this world!”
- ['Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act'– A Well-Treaded But Lovely Walk Down “Memory Holmes”](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/sherlock-holmes-the-last-act-a-well-treaded-but-lovely-walk-down-memory-holmes/) - By Ernest Kearney — In “Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act,” Nigel Miles-Thomas excels as the legendary detective from a script by David Stuart Davies, a connoisseur of all things 221B Baker Street.
- ['Shagadelic: The Origins of Slang Words For Doing It'- Does It F**King Well!](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/shagadelic-the-origins-of-slang-words-for-doing-it-does-it-fking-well/) - By Ernest Kearney — Part of the reason that show, "Shagadelic" works so well is that Writer/Performer Michael Blaha could easily be a tenured academic of any Ivy League University.
- ['Mark Pleases You' – In A Word: “Wow!”  In Two Words: “Wow!  Wow!!”](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/mark-pleases-you-in-a-word-wow-in-two-words-wow-wow/) - By Ernest Kearney — In his show "Mark Pleases You," Vigeant provides enough wackiness to overload the largest three rings any circus has ever had to offer.
- ['Flamencodanza' – A Superlative Performance, A Stinging Indictment](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/flamencodanza-a-superlative-performance-a-stinging-indictment/) - By Ernest Kearney — I am an aficionado when it comes to Flamenco. I am also a huge fan of both Aylin Bayaz and Raul Mannola and their show Flamencodanza.""
- ['A Worthless Piece Of Sh*t' – They’re Not Kidding](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/a-worthless-piece-of-sht-theyre-not-kidding/) - By Ernest Kearney — There was some talent on the stage – Danielle Shvartsman, Hess Hagge, and Phil Arliss – and then there wasn’t.
- ['The Jason Helfgott Experience' – When A Movement Artist Doesn’t Move](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/the-jason-helfgott-experience-when-a-movement-artist-doesnt-move/) - By Ernest Kearney — Lean and long-limbed Jason Helfgott bills himself as a “movement artist,” and his "Experience” is onstage at The Broadwater in Hollywood for Hollywood Fringe Fest ’23.
- ['Trying' With Chance Lang Succeeds](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/trying-with-chance-lang-succeeds/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Trying" playing during the Hollywood Fringe Festival '23, at the Asylum @ Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre in Hollywood, began as a CalArts venture entitled Self Portrait Project.
- ['Two Cats on a Date' – A One-Trick Feline](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/two-cats-on-a-date-a-one-trick-feline/) - 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 film-noir.
- [Rodney Gardiner - A Miracle in 'Smote This, A Comedy About God...And Other Serious $H*T'](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/rodney-gardiner-a-miracle-in-smote-this-a-comedy-about-god-and-other-serious-ht/) - Ernest Kearney — “At a Caribbean funeral, grief is to the Holy Ghost what an 8-ball is to Rick James…” This is one of the lines from Rodney Gardiner’s one-man show...
- ['My Dead Dad' – Laments of an Engaging Son](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/my-dead-dad-laments-of-an-engaging-son/) - By Ernest Kearney — In "My Dead Dad," Samuel Jae is covering very well-trodden ground – very well covered.(HFF23)
- [Jackie – A Tragedy of Mannequins and Wardrobe](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/jackie-a-tragedy-of-mannequins-and-wardrobe/) - By Ernest Kearney — 'Jackie' written by Austrian playwright, novelist and 2004 Noble Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is like a Rap-poetry rant inspired by David Lynch’s early films.
- ['Befok'  (or The Desperate Attempt To Impress Iñárritu) – Stir Crazy In The Prison Of Our Passions](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/befok-or-the-desperate-attempt-to-impress-inarritu-stir-crazy-in-the-prison-of-our-passions/) - By Ernest Kearney — Inspiration for 'Befok' (or The Desperate Attempt to Impress Iñárritu), playing during HFF23 at the Broadwater in Hollywood…
- ['Dillis' – Existential Dopiness from a Dainty Idiot](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/dillis-existential-dopiness-from-a-dainty-idiot/) - By Ernest Kearney — I am a sucker for clowns...Fellini’s clowns, Beckett’s clowns, Bill Irwin, Red Bastard, Slava Polunin, and any buffoon or...
- ['The Book of Will' – The Battle for Shakespeare Revealed](https://thetvolution.com/2023/06/the-book-of-will-the-battle-for-shakespeare-revealed/) - By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Lauren Gundersen has a flair in farming history for fascinating feminists – astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt who devised a galactic “measuring tape” (Silent Sky,)...
- ['Kiss of the Spider Woman' at A Noise Within – The Timid Shall not Survive[1]](https://thetvolution.com/2023/04/kiss-of-the-spider-woman-at-a-noise-within-the-timid-shall-not-survive1/) - By Ernest Kearney — The National Reorganization Process was the sanitized designation for the military dictatorship that controlled Argentine from 1976 to 1983 subjecting its citizens to, a restriction of their civil rights and...
- [School Of Night’s ‘Battlesong of Boudica’ Raging at The Hudson](https://thetvolution.com/2023/04/school-of-nights-battlesong-of-boudica-raging-at-the-hudson/) - By Ernest Kearney — Christopher William Johnson and his School of Night company has, over the years, been responsible for an impressive array of intelligent, entertaining and wildly ambitious productions; "Punch and Judy" (actors-not puppets,) "Hercules Insane" and "Klingon Tamburlaine," to name a few.
- ['THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT' — WITTY WARCRAFT, WOUNDED TRUTH](https://thetvolution.com/2023/04/the-lifespan-of-a-fact-witty-warcraft-wounded-truth/) - By Ernest Kearney — In 2003 Harper’s Magazine commissioned John D’Agata to pen an essay about the suicide of a 16-year-old Las Vegas teenager, Levi Presley, who leapt to his death from the observation deck of the Stratosphere Hotel.
- ['Unrivaled' Unravels at the Boston Court](https://thetvolution.com/2023/04/unrivaled-unravels-at-the-boston-court/) - By Ernest Kearney — In Unrivaled, Playwright Rosie Naraski introduces audiences to Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shōnagon, two celebrated authoresses of 11th century Japan.
- [Hanoch Levin’s 'Yaacobi & Leidental' at the Odyssey Theatre, a Farcical Crucible … with Music!](https://thetvolution.com/2023/03/hanoch-levins-yaacobi-leidental-at-the-odyssey-theatre-a-farcical-crucible-with-music/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Yaacobi & Leidental" is currently having its US premiere at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and the merging of play and venue is certainly a match made in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- [FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE, an Invasion of the Jacko-Snatchers Musical](https://thetvolution.com/2023/03/for-the-love-of-a-glove-an-invasion-of-the-jacko-snatchers-musical/) - By Ernest Kearney — In 1998 the headline of The National Enquirer bellowed to the gullible: “Titanic Survivor Found on Iceberg! She Still Thinks its 1912!” Here was the inspiration for Jeffrey Hatcher’s Scotland Road.
- [In 'Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground,' No, Not A History Lesson…](https://thetvolution.com/2022/12/in-eisenhower-this-piece-of-ground-no-not-a-history-lesson/) - By Ernest Kearney — In dramatizing the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, you are faced with two wildly, out of balance acts. The first act is Eisenhower the military man,
- [BENATAR / GIRALDO MEET THE BARD FOR AN IMPRESSIVE PARTNERSHIP IN 'INVINCIBLE'](https://thetvolution.com/2022/12/benatar-giraldo-meet-the-bard-for-an-impressive-partnership-in-invincible/) - By Ernest Kearney — If you’re a fan of Pat Benatar, Invincible is a must see, and if you’re not, see it anyway. The concept is not new, a retelling of "Romeo and Juliet" in a modern setting with music.
- ['SMILE' AT ATWATER VILLAGE THEATRE – MORE OF A SMIRK](https://thetvolution.com/2022/11/smile-at-atwater-village-theatre-more-of-a-smirk/) - By Ernest Kearney — Set in an upscale neighborhood of Philadelphia, Melissa Jane Osborne’s "Smile" (on stage at Atwater Village Theatre) begins with Rachel (Isabella Feliciana) seated in the office of high school counselor, Helen (Andria Kozica).
- ['Di Lady Di,' on the boards again at The Whitmore in North Hollywood](https://thetvolution.com/2022/11/di-lady-di-on-the-boards-again-at-the-whitmore-in-north-hollywood/) - “Di Lady Di,” a favorite at this year's Hollywood Fringe, is currently playing in rotation with All is True, or Henry VIII at The Whitmore Theatre in North Hollywood, throughout November and early December. Ernest Kearney's Fringe review for “Di Lady Di” has been reposted below.
- ['Di Lady Di' – Charlotte Munson, Perfect as the “People’s Princess”](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/di-lady-di-charlotte-munson-perfect-as-the-peoples-princess/) - By Ernest Kearney — What is startling about Charlotte Munson’s performance in her musical “Di Lady Di,” is the agility she displays in shifting from moments of silly mockery of Prince Charles to embracing the understated sensuality of the “People’s Princess” all in the space of a mere breath.
- ['ARKHIPOV' AN OPERATIC HYMN TO A SOVIET SAVIOR](https://thetvolution.com/2022/10/arkhipov-an-operatic-hymn-to-a-soviet-savior/) - By Ernest Kearney ­— With their opera 'Arkhipov,' Composer Peter Knell and Librettist Stephanie Fleischmann have superbly captured the historical event in their ironic juxtaposition of a tragedy barely avoided...
- ['Crude' - Mötley Crüe with a PG Rating](https://thetvolution.com/2022/09/crude-motley-crue-with-a-pg-rating/) - By Ernest Kearney — Doctor Zomba’s Ghost Show, David Lucarelli’s loopy homage to late night television horror hosts, was plainly rooted in his appreciation for the hi-jinks of Jeepers Creepers, Elvira and others. Lucarelli reveals himself as a dedicated “Metalhead” with his new production, "Crude."
- [A Musical 'Animal Farm' – Man may be to Man a Wolf, but Animals are to Animals a Man](https://thetvolution.com/2022/09/a-musical-animal-farm-man-may-be-to-man-a-wolf-but-animals-are-to-animals-a-man/) - By Ernest Kearney — Throughout its 30-year history, A Noise Within has demonstrated, for any theatrical company, the strategy for success. A focused concentration on a creative field, an unflagging commitment to artistic integrity, and a distinct structure in place to assure that neither that focus nor that commitment is ever threatened with compromise.
- [Athol Fugard’s ‘Valley Song’ – A Hymnal in Celebration of Hope](https://thetvolution.com/2022/09/athol-fugards-valley-song-a-hymnal-in-celebration-of-hope/) - By Ernest Kearney -- "Valley Song," at Long Beach’s International City Theatre, is in many ways unique among South African playwright Athol Fugard’s works.
- ['A Dream at the End of Time' – A Toe Tapping Lovecraftian Fable](https://thetvolution.com/2022/07/a-dream-at-the-end-of-time-a-toe-tapping-lovecraftian-fable/) - By Ernest Kearney — In selecting a basis for their musical, “A Dream At the End of Time,” Thomas Barrett Blakeley and Duncan C.B. Smith chose one of the oddest of H.P Lovecraft’s short stories, "The Quest of Iranon."
- ['It’s in Our Bones' — Needs It in the Writing](https://thetvolution.com/2022/07/its-in-our-bones-needs-it-in-the-writing/) - By Ernest Kearney — At the core of Nicholas Buda’s drama, "It’s In Our Bones,"' are two sisters trapped in a cabin confronting each other with their history of antagonistic disregard.
- [THE TVO AWARDS — The Awards That Matter](https://thetvolution.com/2022/07/the-tvo-awards-the-awards-that-matter/) - By Ernest Kearney — This was the Fringe that was meant to show to our city and the world, we’re still here, alive and kicking. And I think we showed them.
- [THE Tvolution FINAL MEDAL COUNT FOR HFF'22](https://thetvolution.com/2022/07/the-tvolution-final-medal-count-for-hff22/) - All the shows reviewed, during Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022, are ranked in one of the five categories listed below: PLATINUM: These are shows that are either the standouts among the standouts or shows that capture the essence of the Fringe or prove themselves unique in some way above all others.
- ['Blood Pig' — Black Comedy in Need of a Transfusion](https://thetvolution.com/2022/07/blood-pig-black-comedy-in-need-of-a-transfusion/) - By Ernest Kearney — I’m not sure if Playwright Devin Arnold has watched a little too much League of Gentlemen or not anywhere near enough.
- ['Tommy and the Brothers' – A Toe Tapping Second Coming](https://thetvolution.com/2022/07/tommy-and-the-brothers-a-toe-tapping-second-coming/) - By Ernest Kearney — This tribute to Patrick, Tom, Liam Clancy and their musical confederate, Tommy Makem, is long overdue in “the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.”
- ['The Toughest Man in Chicago'—The Best Show of the Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2022/07/the-toughest-guy-in-chicago-the-best-show-of-the-fringe/) - By Ernest Kearney — Writer and performer Mitchell Bisschop recreates two prominent Chicagoans in his show. Royko, and his close friend and fellow writer Louis “Studs” Terkel.
- [This has to be a Coincidence – Needs Some Skepticism](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/this-has-to-be-a-coincidence-needs-some-skepticism/) - By Ernest Kearney — Hanoch Serebrenik is a very funny soul. His comic timing and his mannerisms display that happy combination of talent and experience.
- ['Pain In My Asperger’s' — Musical Hijinks, Trumps Life’s Adversity](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/pain-in-my-aspergers-musical-hijinks-trumps-lifes-adversity/) - By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer and Composer Jeremy Ebenstein was diagnosed with high functioning Asperger’s Syndrome early on in life.
- ['Afghanistan Is Not Funny' – It Is Riveting, Painful and Honest](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/afghanistan-is-not-funny-it-is-riveting-painful-and-honest/) - By Ernest Kearney — British Comedian and Playwright Henry Naylor set off to Afghanistan to gather material for his play "Finding Bin Laden," and somewhere along the way found his own humanity.
- ['Beautiful Monsterz' – The Cancer of Celebrityhood](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/beautiful-monsterz-the-cancer-of-celebrityhood/) - By Ernest Kearney — Steve Vlasak’s shows are nothing if not ambitious. This was as apparent in his earlier Hollywood Fringe production of "Nights at the Algonquin Round Table" (HFF’17), as it is in his latest effort "Beautiful Monsterz" (HFF’22).
- ['Something in the Air'  – Nothing On The Stage](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/something-in-the-air-nothing-on-the-stage/) - By Ernest Kearney — After a “successful workshop” production, a group of CalArts students have brought "Something in the Air" to HFF22. After seeing it I’m afraid I must question just who told them their workshop staging was “successful.”
- ['Mr. Malcolm’s Music Factory' - Music for the Young Masses](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/mr-malcolms-music-factory-music-for-the-young-masses/) - By Ernest Kearney — Legendary rocker Joe Cocker was being interviewed once very early in his career when the BBC reporter asked him what he would have done if he hadn’t become a musician...
- ['My Name is Thileepan' – A Tragic History Badly Told](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/my-name-is-thileepan-a-tragic-history-badly-told/) - By Ernest Kearney — Ahash Francis, has chosen a subject for his one-man show that is a fascinating and tragic figure from the history of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
- ['The Undiscovered Country…' A Return Ticket from a One Way Trip](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/the-undiscovered-country-a-return-ticket-from-a-one-way-trip/) - By Ernest Kearney — Larry Davidson’s one-man show, “The Undiscovered Country – A Skeptic’s Guide to the Afterlife” is rife with gimmicks – puppets, magic tricks, Judge “Jewry,” multi-medium, tarot cards and audience participation.
- ['Breed Or Bust' — Honesty and Humor Win the Day](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/breed-or-bust-honesty-and-humor-win-the-day/) - By Ernest Kearney — It cannot be said that Joyful Raven’s “Breed or Bust” is a beautifully written piece chronicling one woman’s struggles against the tyranny of a patriarchal society attempting to dictate its control over her body.
- ['Best Wife Ever!' — Comedy Gold, but Fringe Silver](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/best-wife-ever-comedy-gold-but-fringe-silver/) - By Ernest Kearney — Cat Alvarado is a young comedian with lovely plumes in her bonnet. Unfortunately, her one-woman show "Best Wife Ever" is a comedy routine masquerading as a solo piece.
- ['Camp Ginger' — A Tale Told with Talent (and a Flute!)](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/camp-ginger-a-tale-told-with-talent-and-a-flute/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Camp Ginger" is an intelligent well constructed tale of a young, sensitive, socially maladroit lad who is sent off to a summer camp that...
- ['Dying For Our Voices' — Noble Intentions, An Unexceptional Failure](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/dying-for-our-voices-noble-intentions-an-unexceptional-failure/) - By Ernest Kearney — In our time, in our world, there is no more important battle than that for the truth. And the journalists and reporters who bear the slanders of...
- [Are You Loving It?, Well, Honestly…](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/are-you-loving-it-well-honestly/) - By Ernest Kearney — As a huge fan of the international art of clowning, right at the top of my “To See” list from the get go of HFF22 was Japan’s Theatre Group Gumbo production of "Are You Loving It?"
- ['Tommy Cooper: I Didn’t Let You Down, Did I?' —Niek Versteeg Doesn’t Disappoint Either](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/tommy-cooper-i-didnt-let-you-down-did-i-niek-versteeg-doesnt-disappoint-either/) - By Ernest Kearney — There are two parts to Niek Versteeg’s solid success at playing the titular role in “Tommy Cooper: I Didn’t Let You Down, Did I?”
- ['The Tanner' – Epic History Told from the Front Line](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/the-tanner-epic-history-told-from-the-front-line/) - By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer Alex McSherry takes his clue from Historian John Keegan’s classic work "The Face of Battle" in "The Tanner."
- ['The Great Wildcat Jackson' — Entertaining Flash from the Past](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/the-great-wildcat-jackson-entertaining-flash-from-the-past/) - By Ernest Kearney — The golden era of the sideshow maybe sadly gone, but you wouldn’t know that from watching Fred Blanco’s skillfully crafted homage...
- [Vincerò - The Italian Opera Experience – The Wonders of Opera Wonderfully Shared](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/vincero-the-italian-opera-experience-the-wonders-of-opera-wonderfully-shared/) - By Ernest Kearney — “Vincerò” is the closing term cried by the “Unknown Prince,” which concludes “Nessun Dorma” from the opera "Turandot."
- ['Revelation!' – Clive Kennedy Is Most Certainly Indeed!](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/revelation-clive-kennedy-is-most-certainly-indeed/) - By Ernest Kearney — At first Clive Kennedy seems out of place on the stage at the Complex, where he is performing in "Revelation!" at 'Hollywood Fringe Festival '22.
- [Thom Pain (Based On Nothing) — A Perfect Storm of the Matrix Of Language](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/thom-pain-based-on-nothing-a-perfect-storm-of-the-matrix-of-language/) - By Ernest Kearney — Will Eno’s "Thom Pain (Based on Nothing)" began as a one-man show performed at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe...
- ['Cassandra' – A Musical Myth Mishandled](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/cassandra-a-musical-myth-mishandled/) - By Ernest Kearney — “Cassandra,” at the Studio/stage for HFF’22, has a good deal going for it.
- ['To Bah or Not to Bah Humbug' – Surefire Silliness Swiftly Served](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/to-bah-or-not-to-bah-humbug-surefire-silliness-swiftly-served/) - By Ernest Kearney — Playing onstage at the Broadwater for HFF'22, "To Bah or Not to Bah Humbug" is thirty minutes of inoffensive fun...
- ['Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You' — The Sinful Silliness of Holy Humor](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/sister-mary-ignatius-explains-it-all-for-you-the-sinful-silliness-of-holy-humor/) - By Ernest Kearney — Frankly, I have always thought that Christopher Durang’s 1979 play was a lousy piece of playwriting – melodramatic, lacking in subtlety with...
- ['The Second Coming Of Joan Of Arc' — An Alt Joan for the Burning](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/the-second-coming-of-joan-of-arc-an-alt-joan-for-the-burning/) - By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Carolyn Gage announces that the "Maid of Orlèans," in her 1987 play, "The Second Coming of Joan of Arc," resonates with modern sensibilities.
- ['Death To Realism' – A Ramble Without Ramification](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/death-to-realism-a-ramble-without-ramification/) - By Ernest Kearney — In "Death To Realism," Creator/Performer, Marshall Prehm obviously has something he wishes to say, but sadly he says it too obtusely.
- ['No One Comes To See Us Anymore' — An Intriguing Concept in Search of a Production](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/no-one-comes-to-see-us-anymore-an-intriguing-concept-in-search-of-a-production/) - By Ernest Kearney — “No One Comes to See us Anymore,” on at the Hollywood Fringe, has a singular concept which is heavy with potential and possibilities.
- ['Tourrorists' — A Concept In Search of a Play](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/tourrorists-a-concept-in-search-of-a-play/) - By Ernest Kearney — Right from the start there are flashes of cleverness in “Tourrorists,” a comedy based on the January 6th attack on the nation’s capital. It begins with the vetting of the audience…
- ['Shubop-Dubay-Had: The No Matter Watt Prequel' – Adventures In Gordon’s Brain](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/shubop-dubay-had-the-no-matter-watt-prequel-adventures-in-gordons-brain/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Shubop-Dubay-Had" is, as advertised, the prequel to Gordon’s HFF19 musical "No Matter Watt," and a worthy prequel it is.
- ['Flamencodanza' — The Artistry of Flamenco](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/flamencodanza-the-artistry-of-flamenco/) - By Ernest Kearney — A distinct benefit of seeing dancer Aylin Bayaz and guitarist Raúl Mannola performed at the Hudson is the venue’s intimacy.
- ['The Ecstasy of Victoria Woodhull' – History Served with Fun](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/the-ecstasy-of-victoria-woodhull-history-served-with-fun/) - By Ernest Kearney — In her one-woman show based on Victoria Woodhull, Ashley Ford manages to succeed in capturing the many facets of this fascinating woman.
- ['Mr. Chonkers' – “I Have No Idea What I Was Watching, But It Was Fascinating.”](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/mr-chonkers-i-have-no-idea-what-i-was-watching-but-it-was-fascinating/) - By Ernest Kearney — According to my sources, a “Chonker” is either a “human parasite that lives to feast on a portion of its host before retreating” or a…
- [“West” – Light Weight Tale Wonderfully Told](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/west-light-weight-tale-wonderfully-told/) - By Ernest Kearney — Owen Thomas’ hour-long playlet relates a story told countless times in the history of this nation; that of immigrants coming to this country in search of a new life.
- [An Unseasonable Fall of Snow – A Weird Little Work That Won’t Leave You in The Cold](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/an-unseasonable-fall-of-snow-a-weird-little-work-that-wont-leave-you-in-the-cold/) - By Ernest Kearney — “You wouldn’t read about it in a book.” Here you have the most striking line of New Zealand Playwright Gary Henderson’s "An Unseasonable Fall of Snow."
- ['Not Another Midsummer' –  Theatre Drinking Game Left Me With A Hangover](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/not-another-midsummer-theatre-drinking-game-left-me-with-a-hangover/) - By Ernest Kearney — A spin on the popular “The Show That Went Wrong” formula has an acting company arriving late at the Three Clubs Bar minus half their company requiring that audience members be press-ganged into substituting for them.
- [Kayla Boye Embodies the Role in 'Call Me Elizabeth'](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/kayla-boye-embodies-the-role-in-call-me-elizabeth/) - By Ernest Kearney — Set in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1961, Elizabeth Taylor (Kayla Boye) shares with an unseen interviewer, and the audience, her life story...
- [Lisa Pezik’s 'Too Big for Her Britches' – Just About the Perfect Size](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/lisa-peziks-too-big-for-her-britches-just-about-the-perfect-size/) - By Ernest Kearney — In "Too Big for Her Britches," Writer/Performer Lisa Pezik is this side of amazing.
- ['A Terrible Show for Terrible People': Show (Pretty Darn Good!) People (Jury Still Out...)](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/a-terrible-show-for-terrible-people-show-pretty-darn-good-people-jury-still-out/) - By Ernest Kearney — I am a self-confessed sucker for good clowning and Bonnie He offers that up in her one-woman creation, "A Terrible Show for Terrible People."
- [Ben Moroski’s 'Dog' – Disturbing Descent into the Darkness of Denial](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/ben-moroskis-dog-disturbing-descent-into-the-darkness-of-denial/) - By Ernest Kearney — “Lights up!” a voice calls from the darkness before explaining, “That’s a theatre thing.” Aptly enough, we are left in the dark.
- ['Authentic Self: The Quarantine Diaries' – More Authenticity Needed…](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/authentic-self-the-quarantine-diaries-more-authenticity-needed/) - By Ernest Kearney — Bianca Singer has an engaging persona, but that persona seems out of place within her one-woman show "Authentic Self: The Quarantine Diaries."
- ['Wakings!' An Enjoyable Excursion Towards Enlightenment At The Odyssey](https://thetvolution.com/2022/05/wakings-an-enjoyable-excursion-towards-enlightenment-at-the-odyssey/) - By Ernest Kearney — Wakings! directed by Ron Sossi at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble consists of four short pieces, four riddles on the nature of what it means to awake and questioning what it is that we awake to.
- [A Noise Within’s ‘Metamorphoses’ Makes Myth Meaningful to Modern Masses.](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/a-noise-withins-metamorphoses-makes-myth-meaningful-to-modern-masses/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Metamorphoses," or perhaps more accurately from the Greek root “Transformations,” was Roman poet Ovid’s most ambitious effort and is, definitely, his most well-known work.
- [Noor Inayat Khan: The Forgotten Spy - a Strong Performance Suffers a Restricted Structure](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/noor-inayat-khan-the-forgotten-spy-a-strong-performance-suffers-a-restricted-structure/) - By Ernest Kearney — Actress/Playwright Almanya Narula’s choice of subject matter shows a keen sense of what is both the dramatic and commercial. "Noor Inayat Khan: The Forgotten Spy" is a tale of espionage, taken from the annals of World War II, that involves the antithesis of the iconic James Bond.
- ['How To Be Japanese' – A Pleasant Romp Down A Familiar Road](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/how-to-be-japanese-a-pleasant-romp-down-a-familiar-road/) - In her one-woman show, “How to be Japanese,” Miyo Yamauchi shows herself to be an enjoyable and very entertaining storyteller.
- ['Pig Farm' — Some Bacon, a Lot of Fat](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/pig-farm-some-bacon-a-lot-of-fat/) - By Ernest Kearney — In "The Pig Farm," Director John Leingang and Writer Richard Klein crowd their stage with a cluster of genres, providing their audiences with murderous cuties, suicidal elders, asinine Christians, coldblooded mobsters, ravenous piggies and...
- ['Housewife '52' A Toe Tapping Indictment Of Testosterone Tyranny](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/housewife-52-a-toe-tapping-indictment-of-testosterone-tyranny/) - By Ernest Kearney — Remove the focus of the hit series "Mad Men" away from the masculine realm of Madison Avenue, fix it onto the bleak domestic field of their feminine “better...
- ['Beowulf' One Man, Approximately 10,000 Words, One Amazing Revelation](https://thetvolution.com/2022/06/beowulf-one-man-approximately-10000-words-one-amazing-revelation/) - By Ernest Kearney — I see the barest of stages: nondescript chair, nondescript glass…half full of nondescript water. Some token of a set would help, I think. John Heimbuch wanders, literally wanders onto the stage and he is pretty nondescript himself: slacks, Standard Shoes, Ross Dress for Less shirt. Some effort towards a modicum of
- [Hollywood Fringe Festival Returns for 2022!](https://thetvolution.com/2022/05/hollywood-fringe-festival-returns-for-2022/) - By Ernest Kearney — Well like a phoenix rising from a pandemic pyre the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022 is here! Two hundred and twenty-six shows will entertain, amuse, inspire, thrill and dazzle audiences throughout the month of June. And here is a sampling of what is being offered:
- ['Tea' at the Hero Theatre — A Ritual of Redemption, A Reflection of Righteousness](https://thetvolution.com/2022/05/tea-at-the-hero-theatre-a-ritual-of-redemption-a-reflection-of-righteousness/) - By Ernest Kearney — Tea holds a special significance in Japanese culture. Part of its importance can be derived from its introduction to the Island Kingdom in the 9th century when it was brought over from China by two Buddhist monks.
- ['A Doll’s House, Part 2' — More Thought-Provoking Than Snicker-Stimulating — at International City Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/2022/05/a-dolls-house-part-2-more-thought-provoking-than-snicker-stimulating-at-international-city-theatre/) - By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Lucas Hnath’s plays are an oddity. Generally, the core of any drama is the conflict generated by specific actions of the dramatis personae, with which the author has chosen to crowd his stage.
- [BC Caldwell’s 'One Way Ticket To Oregon' — A Journey Worth Taking ](https://thetvolution.com/2022/04/bc-caldwells-one-way-ticket-to-oregon-a-journey-worth-taking/) - By Ernest Kearney — BC Caldwell’s "One Way Ticket to Oregon" takes a theatrical setting that is familiar; one could almost say exasperatingly so — and then, to his credit, executes a graceful aerial cartwheel and turns us about in a direction hardly expected.
- [Complexions Weaves Choreographed Wonders at The Wallis](https://thetvolution.com/2022/04/complexions-weaves-choreographed-wonders-at-the-wallis/) - By Ernest Kearney — Dance has been equated to language less poetry. Complexions, the dance company founded by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, in 1994, gives validation to that observation...
- [The Friends We Miss…](https://thetvolution.com/2020/08/the-friends-we-miss/) - By Ernest Kearney — These are trying times, no argument, but there is much that can be learned through adversity. Now I have always been a social creature; I love gathering with friends, love parties, love just “hanging out.”
- ['A Death-Defying Escape' — Magician Judy Carter Performs her Slight of Show](https://thetvolution.com/2022/04/a-death-defying-escape-magician-judy-carter-performs-her-slight-of-show/) - By Ernest Kearney — Judy Carter packs a lot of diversity in her petite package; Jewish, Lesbian, comedienne, abuse survivor, hopeless romantic, dedicated magician, loving sister and natural born kvetcherkeb.
- ['A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney' By Lucas Hnath at The Odyssey— Lights, Cameras— Huh??](https://thetvolution.com/2022/04/a-public-reading-of-an-unproduced-screenplay-about-the-death-of-walt-disney-by-lucas-hnath-at-the-odyssey-lights-cameras-huh/) - By Ernest Kearney — There’s an old joke. My wife loves it. A judge in a divorce hearing informs Mickey, “I’m sorry, Mister Mouse, but mental illness is not acceptable grounds for divorcing your wife Minnie.”
- [Fountain Theatre’s ‘Detained’ Recycles Our Recycled Rage](https://thetvolution.com/2022/03/fountain-theatres-detained-recycles-recycled-rage/) - By Ernest Kearney — It goes without saying to those in the know, that The Fountain Theatre is one of the preeminent producing venues in Los Angeles or, even the state, perhaps the nation and, arguably, in its “weight class,” the world.
- ['Rapunzel Alone' — a Magical, Mythical Morality Play Not to be Missed…](https://thetvolution.com/2022/03/rapunzel-alone-a-magical-mythical-morality-play-not-to-be-missed/) - By Ernest Kearney — It was both a pleasure and an honor to take my seat for the world premiere of "Rapunzel Alone" at the 24th Street Theatre; in association with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
- [John Fleck’s 'It’s Alive, It’s Alive' at The Odyssey — Unfortunately, it Isn’t…](https://thetvolution.com/2022/02/john-flecks-its-alive-its-alive-at-the-odyssey-unfortunately-it-isnt/) - By Ernest Kearney — John Fleck is an imposing figure in the history of Los Angeles theatre and beyond. His shows have shocked, enticed and entertained audiences across the nation and the world.
- ['Marry Me A Little', The Melody of Melancholia Plays at International City Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/2022/02/marry-me-a-little-the-melody-of-melancholia-plays-at-international-city-theatre/) - By Ernest Kearney — In many ways, “Marry Me a Little,” in its final weeks at Long Beach’s International City Theatre is, perhaps, the most bittersweet of all Stephen Sondheim’s shows.
- [Singing Revolution: The Musical – Artistry, Achievement and Heartache](https://thetvolution.com/2022/01/singing-revolution-the-musical-artistry-achievement-and-heartache/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Singing Revolution the Musical," at the Broadwater Main Stage, has so very much going for it that one is somewhat in awe of Director Tony Spinosa – who also composed the music and, in partnership with James Bearhart, provided the lyrics and wrote the book.
- [Robert Green Ingersoll   —   The Forgotten Giant](https://thetvolution.com/2022/01/robert-green-ingersoll-the-forgotten-giant/) - By Ernest Kearney — The service held at the Washington National Cathedral this past December 10, for the late Senator Bob Dole, wielded a near hypnotic sway over me. Watching President Biden eulogize his long time senate colleague, the dignity of the ceremony emanated tranquility.
- [Eloise Coopersmith’s 'My (Unauthorized) Hallmark Movie Musical' - A Dream of a Show](https://thetvolution.com/2021/12/eloise-coopersmiths-my-unauthorized-hallmark-movie-musical-a-dream-of-a-show/) - By Ernest Kearney — "My (Unauthorized) Hallmark Movie Musical," currently onstage at The Broadwater in Hollywood, has all the signposts of a truly disastrous evening in the theatre.
- [Will Manus’ ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’ Rings with Covid’s Echoings](https://thetvolution.com/2021/12/will-manus-a-journal-of-the-plague-year-ring-with-covids-echoings/) - By Ernest Kearney — There is an old saw that annoys the hell out of me whenever I hear it: “History repeats itself.” Wrong. History never repeats itself. It only seems that it does because humanity keeps making the same mistakes over and over again.
- ['Children' at Play at The Fountain Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/2021/11/children-at-play-at-the-fountain-theatre/) - By Ernest Kearney — "The Children," running at The Fountain Theatre, opens with trickling blood. Just a nose bleed. A still, silent, rather empty moment, for all to see the red droplets. It’s the Iast stillness and silence Playwright Lucy Kirkwood permits her audience.
- ['The Serpent' Slithers at The Odyssey](https://thetvolution.com/2021/11/the-serpent-slithers-at-the-odyssey/) - By Ernest Kearney — “Why?” Whether one is leaving an exhibit of Banksy’s stenciled, naked, nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phúc fleeing her napalmed Vietnamese village or a Diamanda Galás “Scream Opera,” or a screening of the Jordan Peele film US; the sentient audiences are asking themselves, “Why?”
- [‘Poor Clare’ by The Echo Theater Company Left Impoverished, Even More](https://thetvolution.com/2021/11/poor-clare-by-the-echo-theater-company-left-impoverished-even-more/) - By Ernest Kearney — The story of Chiara Offreduccio, AKA Clare, is one of the most beloved “ripping yarns” of the Catholic Church.
- [Carla Delaney’s ‘Worth It!’ Worthy of a Better Production](https://thetvolution.com/2021/11/carla-delaneys-worth-it-worthy-of-a-better-production/) - By Ernest Kearney — Carla Delaney is a talent to luxuriate in, with a lovely voice, sharp comedic skills, and a persona that can fill a small auditorium. These praise worthy qualities are very evident in her one-woman-show "Worth It!"
- [‘Blues in the Night’ – If Music Be the Food of Love, A Feast Awaits at Long Beach’s ICT](https://thetvolution.com/2021/11/blues-in-the-night-if-music-be-the-food-of-love-a-feast-awaits-at-long-beachs-ict/) - By Ernest Kearney - Since its Broadway opening in 1982 it’s doubtful a year has passed without there being at least two dozen (likely more) revivals of the Tony nominated musical, "Blues of the Night," all across the nation.
- [Mark Wilding’s 'Our Man in Santiago'  — Cloak and Dagger With Chuckles Aplenty](https://thetvolution.com/2021/10/mark-wildings-our-man-in-santiago-cloak-and-dagger-with-chuckles-aplenty/) - By Ernest Kearney - "In Our Man in Santiago," Playwright Mark Wilding forgoes those subtle, silken threads from which history spins its webs, which is entirely acceptable since he’s penning a farcical romp and not a historical recounting.
- [Rachel Parker’s 'The Wolfe & The Bird'; Guns Don’t Kill People – Parents Do](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/rachel-parkers-the-wolfe-guns-dont-kill-people-parents-do/) - By Ernest Kearney — There’s a great deal that is familiar about The Wolfe & the Bird, Rachel Parker’s one-woman show at the Matrix.
- [TheTVolution Medal Listing for HFF21 - copy](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/thetvolution-medal-listing-for-hff21-copy/) - The Hollywood Fringe Festival shows attended by The Tvolution, for 2021, are eligible for a “Medal” in one of FOUR categories. They are:
- [The TVO AWARDS for Hollywood Fringe Festival 2021](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/the-tvo-awards-for-hollywood-fringe-festival-2021/) - By Ernest Kearney — Well, 2021 was strange in every way: The UN declared it the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, a mob of goose-stepping “Americans” cretinized political lunkheads and MAGA sophomoraniacs, who congressional Republicans mistook for “your average tourists,” and who attacked the nation’s capital, Covid-19 vaccinations, worldwide, topped 100 million... And then there was the Hollywood Fringe Festival…
- [TheTVolution Medal Listing for HFF21](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/thetvolution-medal-listing-for-hff21/) - The Hollywood Fringe Festival shows attended by The Tvolution, for 2021, are eligible for a “Medal” in one of FOUR categories. They are:
- [SUGAR AND SH*T … Bad Soup, Famished Horse or Baby with an Eye Patch.](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/sugar-and-sht-bad-soup-famished-horse-or-baby-with-an-eye-patch/) - By Ernest Kearney — “Sugar and Sh*t,” at the Hollywood Fringe Festival '21, is full of moments that clash and tumble and deprive both the actresses and their audience of the show that could have been. Which is a pity because Lenny Langley (the Sugar) and Macy Pitt (the Sh*t) both have a solid stage presence and stories for the telling.
- [(It's Been 76 Years and We're) STILL WAITING FOR LEFTY... Who's in a Rush?](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/its-been-76-years-and-were-still-waiting-for-lefty-whos-in-a-rush/) - By Ernest Kearney — With “(It's Been 76 Years and We're) Still Waiting For Lefty,” presented during Hollywood Fringe '21, Playwright Gregory Crafts has taken up the challenge of rekindling the 1935 theatrical fire set by Clifford Odets’s Depression Era drama.
- [WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD… A Radioactive Immersive Farce for Our Time](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/welcome-to-the-neighborhood-a-radioactive-immersive-farce-for-our-time/) - By Ernest Kearney — A time warped backyard BBQ where the hot dogs and burgers come with extra strangeness and squirt of inanity to go along with the mustard and pickles, in "Welcome to the Neighborhood."
- [LIES, ANGER AND FORGIVENESS… Celebrates the Salvation of a Human Heart](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/lies-anger-and-forgiveness-celebrates-the-salvation-of-a-human-heart/) - By Ernest Kearney — Saba takes us down the rabbit hole of the American dream in her HFF21 presentation of “Lies, Anger and Forgiveness,” and it is a thoroughly enjoyable trip.
- [Paige Fockler’s I’M FINE… Adventures in Her Brain](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/paige-focklers-im-fine-adventures-in-her-brain/) - By Ernest Kearney — Paige Fockler sets up an interesting reality in her Hollywood Fringe one-woman show. She has barged into her therapist’s office without an appointment, hoping she’ll be able to squeeze-in between those in the waiting room with appointments.
- [VICE… Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! The Future Is Not Nice!](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/vice-danger-will-robinson-danger-the-future-is-not-nice/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Vice" is a futuristic, dystopian drama, chock full of revolution, the dominance of virtual reality to keep populations docile, a matriarchal dictatorship, families torn apart, techno-enforced totalitarianism, and an ever-present “Big Sister” to assure compliance.
- [THE REICHSTAG IS BURNING… Hot but not Sizzling](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/the-reichstag-is-burning-hot-but-not-sizzling/) - By Ernest Kearney — At the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival, "The Girl Who Jumped Off the Hollywood Sign" —written and performed by Jenne Hartstone— earned a number of honors, including the Tvolution Award for Best Solo Show (female,) and left no doubts about her acting “chops.”
- [TOMB Buries Itself](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/tomb-buries-itself/) - By Ernest Kearney — “Tomb” borrows from Stephen King’s The Shining and George Lukas’ classic THX 1138. There’s nothing wrong with that, except they haven’t borrowed the interesting parts.
- [BLACK WOMAN IN DEEP WATER – The Hallowing of Sufferance](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/black-woman-in-deep-water-the-hallowing-of-sufferance/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Black Woman in Deep Water" written and performed by Makena Hammond, under Jane Fleiss Brogger’s, direction is a pearl whose value is reflected not in its size but in its perfection.
- [Joyce Lee’s THE DEAN’S OFFICE… Doesn’t go to the Head of the Class](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/joyce-lees-the-deans-office-doesnt-go-to-the-head-of-the-class/) - 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 institutes of America.
- ["DIRTY CHAI – a hip-hop bollywood musical"... The Foot I Use For Toe-Tapping Fell Asleep](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/dirty-chai-a-hip-hop-bollywood-musical-the-foot-i-use-for-toe-tapping-fell-asleep/) - By Ernest Kearney — Ruchi Kishore, creator and star of "Dirty Chai – a hip-hop bollywood musical" which recently played during the Hollywood Fringe Festival, has staged a rather flat, staggeringly uninspired girl meets girl romance that is strictly by the numbers.
- [Tom McAteer’s THE EASTER BUNNY… Finding Monsters in the Mirror’s Reflection](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/tom-mcateers-the-easter-bunny-finding-monsters-in-the-mirrors-reflection/) - By Ernest Kearney — “The Easter Bunny” is a self-described live stream “urban horror story” by Canada’s Marbles Theatre Group. It was the third virtual show that I had sat through in one evening. The first was a dance performance initially filmed before a live audience and, to me, not theatre as much as a competently-executed, well-structured YouTube video.
- [“GATSBY an immersive illumination – CHAPTER 1: East Egg” Ambling Through an American Literary Classic](https://thetvolution.com/2021/09/gatsby-an-immersive-illumination-chapter-1-east-egg-ambling-through-an-american-literary-classic/) - By Ernest Kearney - In this refashioning of the first chapter from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, "The Great Gatsby," the audience is realigned as the embodiment of Nick Carraway, the book’s narrator, and "he/we" arrive at a dinner party thrown by Daisy and Tom Buchanan.
- [TOSHANISHA – THE NEW NORMALS – From Kenya with Laughs!](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/toshanisha-the-new-normals-from-kenya-with-laughs/) - "Toshanisha – The New Normal" is a collaboration between South America’s Os Satyros and Africa’s Bold Theatre Kenya, and ... it does highlight one of the strengths of virtual productions...
- [Authenticity: The Musical, The Promise of Potential Not Present](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/authenticity-the-musical-the-promise-of-potential-not-present/) - By Ernest Kearney — There are three types of shows I am always in hopes of finding, which keeps me returning, year after year, to the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
- [Gordon Stephen Matheson Jr.’s ‘No Matter Watt – The Musical!’ and why it does Matter](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/gordon-stephen-matheson-jr-s-no-matter-watt-the-musical-and-why-it-does-matter/) - by Ernest Kearney — It was fitting that the first show of the Hollywood Fringe Festival '21, for this reviewer, was Gordon Stephen Matheson Jr.’s "No Matter Watt – The Musical!" in that it embodies some of the essential and mandatory elements that give luster to any Fringe.
- [GOLDBABY – Lots of Laughs and an Avalanche of Bling](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/goldbaby-lots-of-laughs-and-an-avalanche-of-bling/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Goldbaby" is a sketch group cut from the same cloth as Saturday Night Live, but, to their credit, the group is more consistently funny than SNL has been since since...
- [In ‘La Divina: The Last Interview of Maria Callas’ Shelley Cooper Hits all the High Notes](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/in-la-divina-the-last-interview-of-maria-callas-shelley-cooper-hits-all-the-high-notes/) - By Ernest Kearney — Maria Callas (1923-1977) left an indelible mark as one of the most gifted and influential opera singers of the 20th century if not “the most.”
- ["Funny Bōnz, the 'Humerus' Solution" is a Bonanza of Cheap Laffs!](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/funny-bonz-the-humerus-solution-is-a-bonanza-of-cheap-laffs/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Funny Bonz, the Humerus Solution" by the P3 Theatre Company suffers from a lack of slickness in some of the performances, which expresses itself by that naturalness and ease on stage which, in turn, relaxes an audience and makes them the better targets for any unexpected zingers to come.
- [NATURE VS. Unsure at Whom it’s Swinging….](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/nature-vs-unsure-at-whom-its-swinging/) - By Ernest Kearney — Karen Wilmer-West’s "Nature vs." begins with a nicely farcical melding of a totalitarian dystrophic America fused to an upper class ladies book club where the discussion is focused on the latest best-selling “bodice ripper.”
- ['I Hear So Extremely Loud' - Ava Hase Looks into the Abyss our Society is Blind to…](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/i-hear-so-extremely-loud-ava-hase-looks-into-the-abyss-our-society-is-blind-to/) - By Ernest Kearney — Hase’s one-woman show, "I Hear So Extremely Loud," currently running at The Hudson Theatre, is composed of brief selections taken from a half dozen testimonies of those who have actually survived or suffered through a school shooting in America.
- [Alma Collins' 'Strong Like Honey' Offers Strength Sweetened by Hard Won Insights](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/alma-collins-strong-like-honey-offers-strength-sweetened-by-hard-won-insights/) - By Ernest Kearney - Alma Collins offers invaluable insights, in this Hollywood Fringe staging at the Hudson Theatre, and shows us that ithe journey can hold priceless discoveries.
- ['GIDEON AND THE BLUNDERSNORP' - Michael Gordon Shapiro Provides Music, Mayhem and Monster - You Bring the Laughs!](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/gideon-and-the-blundersnorp-michael-gordon-shapiro-provides-music-mayhem-and-monster-you-bring-the-laughs/) - By Ernest Kearney — All through the enforced isolation of the pandemic, denied my needed fix of theatrical smack, desperately watching Zoom shows presented on YouTube to cut the edge off my cravings like an AA dropout knocking back bottles of Nyquil, I dreamt of a show like "Gideon and the Blundersnorp."
- [SAMSON and THE BURNING BUSH – The Eleventh Plague Has Arrived with a Running Time of a 100 Minutes!](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/samson-and-the-burning-bush-the-eleventh-plague-has-arrived-with-a-running-time-of-a-100-minutes/) - By Ernest Kearney — Why…? Why…? C’mon, why…? Really, why…? Why…? Why…?
- [NOBODY NEEDS ANOTHER HAMLET but Every Hamlet Needs a Director](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/nobody-needs-another-hamlet-but-every-hamlet-needs-a-director/) - by Ernest Kearney — The main problem with actor Eric Billitzer’s "Nobody Needs Another Hamlet," (playing The Hollywood Fringe at the Broadwater) is that just about every actor does need a director.
- [Magnificent Musical Mayhem in Allan Murray’s Layers of Tom Lehrer](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/magnificent-musical-mayhem-in-allan-murrays-layers-of-tom-lehrer/) - By Ernest Kearney - In the brief 20-year period in which Tom Lehrer recorded, he established himself as the greatest musical satirist of the 20th century inspiring the likes of Tim Minchin, Weird Al Yankovic and Randy Newman.
- [DECONSTRUCTING HOLLY… Holly Sidell's Account of How Life Devours us All](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/deconstructing-holly-holly-sidells-account-of-how-life-devours-us-all/) - By Ernest Kearney — In "Deconstructing Holly," the courage shown by Playwright/Performer Holly Sidell in recounting her long struggle against cancer, resulting from the hereditary ravages of the BRCA gene mutation, is admirable.
- [ESTRAWBERY FIELDS FOREVER… And The Show Felt Like That Too](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/estrawbery-fields-forever-and-the-show-felt-like-that-too/) - By Ernest Kearney — In "Estrawbery Fields Forever" (HFF'21), Verenice Zuniga shares with her audiences a journey. Unfortunately it is a journey less like an odyssey of personal discovery and more like the morning rush hour commute on the 405.
- [Erin Fowler’s EGG - A Sunny-Side-Up Production from Down Under](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/erin-fowlers-egg-a-sunny-side-up-production-from-down-under/) - By Ernest Kearney — “EGG,” a clever dance piece chronicling a woman’s life from birth, by Australian Performer Erin Fowler is one of the virtual shows imported to Hollywood Fringe '21 from Down Under.
- [Tomoko Karina's JAPANESE LOVE STORY – SHIZUKA, an Admirable Disappointment](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/tomoko-karinas-japanese-love-story-shizuka-an-admirable-disappointment/) - By Ernest Kearney — The love story of Lady Shizuka Gozen (1165 – 1211) and the legendary samurai Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 – 1189) has been erroneously compared in the West to Romeo and Juliet.
- [Hollywood Fringe Mobile App Launched for the 2021 Festival!](https://thetvolution.com/2021/08/hollywood-fringe-mobile-app-launched-for-the-2021-festival/) - HOLLYWOOD, CA — The Hollywood Fringe has officially launched a new mobile app for community members to access show information, purchase tickets, and organize schedules throughout the festival.
- [“Liz Estrada”  All I Am Saying Is Give War a Chance](https://thetvolution.com/2021/07/liz-estrada-all-i-am-saying-is-give-war-a-chance/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Lysistrata," the 411 BCE “anti-war,” “feminist” play by ancient Greece’s, King of Comedy, Aristophanes has endured many, many efforts at adaptation over the centuries. The recent re-workings are impressive by the extent of their diversity...
- [NO MISSTEPS IN WOCHNER’S ‘7 STEP PROCESS’](https://thetvolution.com/2021/06/no-missteps-in-wochners-7-step-process/) - By Ernest Kearney — If 'The Seven Step Process' by Lee Wochner is the last Zoom-play I sit through, it will be nice to say I went out on a high point.
- [The History Of Future Folk](https://thetvolution.com/2021/02/the-history-of-future-folk/) - "If you want to live, come with me – and keep in harmony" Yes, I troll Netflix, the cable channels, and DVDs. I am like the cinema version of Dostoyevsky's "Underground Man," in the sense that I avoid the bright boulevards of major studio releases and hunt in the back alleys of ultra-Indies and foreign
- [A Few Thoughts on “Boomer Bashing”](https://thetvolution.com/2021/02/a-few-thoughts-on-boomer-bashing/) - By Ernest Kearney — A friend poised a question to me. She had encountered, in a brief stretch of time, three people who launched into tirades in which they rained abuse down the generation known as the Baby Boomers, individuals born between 1946 and 1964. My friend was very distraught by these incidents as she had never been subjected to Boomer Bashing.
- [No Cheers for "Mr. Mayor"](https://thetvolution.com/2021/02/no-cheers-for-mr-mayor/) - By Nicusor Ciumacencu — Ted Danson has a new TV show. It’s highly advertised, with banners all over Los Angeles, and that creates the impression that it was much awaited. After coming into eye contact with one of those big, lit billboards along every major boulevard, I watched the promo too.
- [An Open Letter to Keith Rupert Murdoch](https://thetvolution.com/2021/01/an-open-letter-to-keith-rupert-murdoch/) - By Ernest Kearney — First of all, I don’t expect you to read this letter. Truthfully, I don’t expect you’ll ever be aware it was written. After all, this isn’t Yahoo! News or Huffington Post or CNN. It isn’t even Cracked.com. But I’m going to ignore that fact and proceed with this rather lengthy tirade as if you’re actually going to read every last word of it. First there’s something you need to know about me, whenever pressed for my opinion of this nation my straightforward answer is: “The United States is the most important country in the world.”
- [The Hill and Other MayDay Time Tales](https://thetvolution.com/2021/01/the-hill-and-other-mayday-time-tales-2/) - By Darwyn Carson — Aren’t we tired of this yet…? I s’pect there are plenty out there who are. I can feel the ‘bubble-bubble-toil and trouble” rumblings as I drift off to sleep every night, making for some troubling dreams.
- [A Rant on The Rarity of Catharsis in Our Lives and the Removal of Our Clothes in "Disrobed — The Virtual Event"](https://thetvolution.com/2021/01/a-rant-on-the-rarity-of-catharsis-in-our-lives-and-the-removal-of-our-clothes-in-disrobed-the-virtual-event/) - By Ernest Kearney — What is often forgotten or overlooked — especially in our culture so devoted to the immediate and momentary sensorial impact typically found within the remoteness offered by our social media or cell phones — is that the theatre, the Queen of arts, was meant to function as a communal experience, one that would challenge both societies and individuals to emerge from it transformed.
- [Welcome to the Mayday Podcast](https://thetvolution.com/2020/07/welcome-to-mayday-podcast/) - by Darwyn Carson - Mayday — is about everyday life and living; storytelling, anecdotes, truth telling and far- flung fantasy tales both real and imagined interspersed with interviews from everyday people about their everyday lives.
- [Something of Great Value—A Mayday Podcast](https://thetvolution.com/2020/07/something-of-great-value/) - By Darwyn Carson — I grew up in a Midwestern state, on the Eastern side of the United States. As a youngster, Akron seemed like the biggest city there ever was. I mean, the Rubber Capitol of the World had to be among the nation’s largest... Right? It was only after I had migrated from there to Denver, then from Denver to Los Angeles, that I, much later, realized the fallacy of that notion.
- [The Crown: A Take on the Season 2 to Season 3 Changeover](https://thetvolution.com/2021/01/the-crown-a-take-on-the-season-2-to-season-3-changeover/) - By Nicusor Ciumacencu — Season 2 to Season 3, of the Netflix hit series, "The Crown" should have transitioned like the gears of an automatic transmission, unless there are poor mechanics in the works.
- [Reconsidering Our National Anthem](https://thetvolution.com/2021/01/reconsidering-our-national-anthem/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Star-Spangled Banner has had a rather checkered history. As most readers will remember from high school history classes – that is if they stayed awake – the lyrics of our national anthem were based on a poem, “Defence of Fort M’Henry” written by a 35 year old lawyer, Francis Scott Key, as he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the
- [Meredith's 'Dante's Inferno' The Best, for Realz](https://thetvolution.com/2020/11/merediths-dantes-inferno-the-best-for-realz/) - Ernest Kearney — I love it when I’m describing a film to someone and I see that pallid perturbed look of perplexity slowly pervade their faces as they begin to suspect that I’m just screwing with them, that I’m concocting a ludicrous, “movie” simply to see if they’re gullible enough to fall for it.
- [#Friends We Miss - Issue II: James Farris and Mondo Bizarro 2020](https://thetvolution.com/2020/10/friends-we-miss-issue-ii-james-farris-and-mondo-bizarro-2020/) - by Ernest Kearney — Everyone should read Montaigne;* though he wrote nearly 500 years ago, there is hardly a writer today who speaks with such relevance for the modern soul. Some of Montaigne’s most significant writing was on the nature of “friendship.”
- [Angry White Man Unloads](https://thetvolution.com/2020/10/angry-white-man-unloads/) - I’m an Angry White Man, with a twist: I’m angry at other angry white men. You’ve seen and heard them: they add “only” to the phrase “Black Lives Matter” and then shout at people who never said or meant that. Why are white men angry? We’ve always been the default. It’s something learned early and
- [‘The Art of Facing Fears’ Tries to Tame Those Terrors That We Share](https://thetvolution.com/2020/10/the-art-of-facing-fears-tries-to-tame-those-terrors-that-we-share/) - By Ernest Kearney — Concerning these theatre-faux video productions that have been dealt out to sate the “jonesing” of the culturally attuned, the progression has unfolded pretty much as one would expect. From “Dreadful” to “Okay, not frigging bad” to “Dang! They’re getting the hang of this.”
- [Trump & Matt Gaetz Think Americans are a Bunch of Frightened Little Bed-Wetters  …  I Say “No!”](https://thetvolution.com/2020/09/trump-matt-gaetz-think-americans-are-a-bunch-of-frightened-little-bed-wetters-i-say-no/) - By Ernest Kearney — Now reading this, don’t go assuming that I’m just a left-leaning GOP-basher of long standing. Once upon a time, shortly before the Chicxulub crater was formed, I aligned myself with the policies of the GOP.
- ['Romeo & Juliet; Virtually' The Star-Crossed Lovers at Crossed Circuits](https://thetvolution.com/2020/08/romeo-virtually-the-star-crossed-lovers-at-crossed-circuits/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Romeo & Juliet; Virtually" is another valiant effort to breach the great barrier of the current crisis and provide theatre to a hungry audience while maintaining social isolation. Conceived and directed by Miles Berman, this effort takes its cue from Ethan Hawke’s modern adaptation of "Hamlet" (2000) wherein the story is all captured on video cameras, closed-circuit TV and other means of everyday surveillance.
- [If Trump Had Run for President In 1936](https://thetvolution.com/2020/03/if-trump-had-run-for-president-in-1936/) - By Ernest Kearney - In the midst of the Great Depression, Donald Trump’s pronouncement that he would seek the Republican nomination to run against Franklin Roosevelt in the 1936 election stunned many.
- [Ground Rules for 2020](https://thetvolution.com/2020/07/ground-rules-for-2020/) - By Ernest Kearney — I am confident, as confident as one can be in this Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robot world we seem to have tumbled into, that Donald Trump will lose the presidential election in 2020. After all, he lost the election in 2016.
- [To Change or Not to Change? To Stream or Not to Stream? Statues In Perpetuity? What Are the Questions?](https://thetvolution.com/2020/06/to-change-or-not-to-change-to-stream-or-not-to-stream-statues-in-perpetuity-what-are-the-questions/) - A Forward By Ernest Kearney — In times of radical events, it is both courageous and proper to take action to address the failures of society and to try to right the wrongs of the past. I’m a big mouth white guy of Irish descent who, most likely, has ancestral ties to former President Barrack Obama, and that statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, and those statues of Jefferson Davis and P. G. T. Beauregard in New Orleans; they all belong to me.
- [The Blank Theatre Takes One for the Team With “Nathan C. Jones: A Love Story?”](https://thetvolution.com/2020/07/the-blank-theatre-takes-one-for-the-team-with-nathan-c-jones-a-love-story/) - By Ernest Kearney — Well here we are, still in the great Covid plague of 2020, and this is my first theatre review sans theater. My venue was YouTube and the production was: "Nathan C. Jones: A Love Story?"
- [Monsters from the Id](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/monsters-from-the-id/) - "Monsters, John! Monsters from the Id!" That's the warning delivered by a dying Warren Stevens to Captain Leslie Nielson just before the climax of Forbidden Planet. And he's explaining the downfall of a civilization. Last week's monster from the Republican Id stepped out all elbows and insults. Do I have to write his name? Sooner or later. He personifies
- ["Chimpskin" — A Question of Humanity](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/chimpskin-a-question-of-humanity/) - The Puckwit Gang’s "Chimpskin" is a stylishly clever history of Lucy (1964-1987), the chimpanzee raised by Maurice and Jane Temerlin, as a human child. Lucy was even taught American Sign Language in order to communicate with her human “parents” and would come to use some 140 signs,
- [The Tvolution Medal Listing for HFF'19](https://thetvolution.com/2019/07/the-tvolution-medal-listing-for-hff19/) - By Ernest Kearney — For The Tvolution Medal Listings for the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019, all shows attended are placed in one of the five categories listed below...
- [If Trump had Run for President in 1936 — PART III](https://thetvolution.com/2020/04/if-trump-had-run-for-president-in-1936-part-iii/) - By Ernest Kearney — H. L. Mencken, journalist and social critic had predicted it in 1920: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
- [If Trump Had Run for President In 1936 – PART II](https://thetvolution.com/2020/04/if-trump-had-run-for-president-in-1936-part-ii/) - By Ernest Kearney – The pundits proclaimed the ski lifts in Hell must be working overtime, for Donald Trump had won the Republican nomination for president when a great many Americans had rejected the statesman for a huckster.
- ['Vampire Burt's Serenade'  But for a Nail…. or Maybe a Stake…](https://thetvolution.com/2020/06/vampire-burts-serenade-but-for-a-nail-or-maybe-a-stake/) - By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Director Ken Roht’s hellzapoppin’ vamping musical "Vampire Burt’s Serenade" has a good deal going for it. Burt, a manic Nosferatu, is ably portrayed by Kevin Scott Richardson; one of the founding members of the Backstreet Boys.
- [A New Breed of Hero Pops Up On TV Tonight](https://thetvolution.com/2013/06/a-new-breed-of-hero-pops-up-on-tv-tonight/) - By Darwyn Carson - Surprise. You don't have to be a zombie movie lover to enjoy the three part mini-series premiering tonight on BBC America.
- [Ask Wendy Williams](https://thetvolution.com/2013/05/ask-wendy-williams/) - By Lisa Pirro - Wendy Williams stops by Books and Books in Coral Gables to sign her new book Ask Wendy.
- [What's Good on TV Tonight?](https://thetvolution.com/2013/03/whats-good-on-tv-tonight/) - By Darwyn Carson - We've all heard it. Someone channel surfing tosses the remote aside and says: "Over a hundred channels and nothing's on TV." Seems times have changed. Point of fact, the viewing pendulum has swung from nothing to watch to too much to watch.
- [Welcome To Ripper Street](https://thetvolution.com/2013/01/welcome-to-ripper-street/) - By Darwyn Carson - Suffering from "Copper" withdrawal yet? No worries. Another period-based crime thriller is just around the bend. Lying in wait down a dank, cobbled alleyway, "Ripper Street" is more than enough to keep BBC America drama lovers ecstatic until Corky pummels his way back to our TV sets.
- [The Last Detective and The Commander On DVD](https://thetvolution.com/2012/12/the-last-detective-and-the-commander-on-dvd/) - No reason to hide it. I'm in good company by admitting that, there's a soft spot in my heart for British-produced mysteries and dramas. The Last Detective is right at the top of my fav's list. This lighthearted BBC TV-fare, based on the Dangerous Davies novels by Leslie Thomas, escaped my attention until last year
- [A Shiny New 'Copper'](https://thetvolution.com/2012/08/a-shiny-new-copper/) - Here's the bulletin: A tough new detective, year 1864, is coming to our airwaves. Tom Weston-Jones stars in BBC America's, primetime original drama Copper, premiering Sunday, August 19th. Set your DVR's for 10pm. Do it now. There are ten episodes and you won't want to miss any one of them. Welcome to New York City
- [American Experience: Robert E. Lee–Revisited](https://thetvolution.com/2012/01/american-experience-robert-e-lee-revisited/) - By Ernest Kearney - With hardly an exception the American Experience historical programs are gems. That the dumb heads in congress have succeeded in striking down the funding for both public TV and radio, crippling the ability to produce such shows as these,
- [A Classic is Born...on Masterpiece Contemporary](https://thetvolution.com/2011/11/a-classic-is-born-on-masterpiece-contemporary/) - By Darwyn Carson - Now its close cousin, Masterpiece Contemporary raises the bar tonight with the tightly woven political thriller, Page Eight. Writer-director David Hare (the playwright perhaps best known in the States for his screenplays "The Hours" and "The Reader") has culled together a terrific cast of players led by Bill Nighy
- [Who's the Mole in the Game?](https://thetvolution.com/2020/05/whos-the-mole-in-the-game-2/) - By Darwyn Carson - (originally published 12/2014) Just as we were about to yawn and say pass the potatoes please, three unique Points of Play in "The Game," Episodes three and four, snapped us upright into pay-attention mode.
- [The Game Update: Episode 5](https://thetvolution.com/2020/05/the-game-update-episode-5/) - By Darwyn Carson — Now we know. "The Game's" Episode 5 delivered—as promised—the identity of The Mole. Clever writing, this, from series creator Toby Whithouse and writing partner Sarah Dollard.
- [Noted Actor, Gene Dynarski — A Passing](https://thetvolution.com/2020/04/noted-actor-gene-dynarski-a-passing/) - By Ernest Kearney — Early Thursday morning, February 27, 2020, noted character actor Gene Dynarski shuffled off his mortal coil in a Studio City rehabilitation center where he had been residing for the last month. He thought he was recuperating from a mild heart episode.
- [If Trump had run for President in 1936 — PART IV](https://thetvolution.com/2020/04/if-trump-had-run-for-president-in-1936-part-iv/) - By Ernest Kearney — 1940 saw an expansion of Secretary of State Davenport efforts to educate Anglo-Saxon Americans of the threats to their race. At the mid-year point of the year Britain and France had declared war on Germany, and the specter of impending carnage hung over the continent.
- [The Blue13 Dance Company – Talent in Search of a Concept](https://thetvolution.com/2020/03/the-blue13-dance-company-talent-in-search-of-a-concept/) - By Ernest Kearney — The BLUE13 Dance Company according to Paul Crewes, the Artistic Director of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, is reimagining “the classical forms from India, with an American contemporary aesthetic.” And that is true enough.
- [World Premiere of ‘Frankenstein’ at the Wallis — Man-Made Monster or Self-Made Deity](https://thetvolution.com/2020/03/world-premiere-of-frankenstein-at-the-wallis-man-made-monster-or-self-made-deity/) - Ernest Kearney — In choosing Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," Mat Sweeney, Jesse Rasmussen and Choreographer Sebastian Peters-Lazaro of Four Larks have a wealth of themes and concepts to experiment with in their adaptation of "Frankenstein" at the Wallis Annenberg Center...
- [Defeating Trump is Not Enough](https://thetvolution.com/2020/02/defeating-trump-is-not-enough/) - He's gotta go, of course. But Donald The Dictator’s raptorial reign is far from the only damage being done to our democracy.
- [‘Frida – Stroke of Passion’— A Production in Search of a Play](https://thetvolution.com/2020/02/frida-stroke-of-passion-a-production-in-search-of-a-play/) - By Ernest Kearney — The rich soil of Frida Kahlo’s life has, spreading just beneath its surface, the roots of a dozen plays merely awaiting the sun and nurturing of the right playwright’s shining creativity. With "Frida – Stroke of Passion" at Casa 0101 Theater...
- [‘Huckleberry Towers’  Sweet but no High-Rise](https://thetvolution.com/2020/02/huckleberry-towers-sweet-but-no-high-rise/) - By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Stanley Brown's 'Huckleberry Towers' is a show not without merit, but one without definition.
- [Anzu Lawson Finds Her True North in ‘Dear Yoko’](https://thetvolution.com/2020/02/anzu-lawson-finds-her-true-north-in-dear-yoko/) - By Ernest Kearney — First and foremost, one leaves 'Dear Yoko' with the appreciation that Anzu Lawson has lived one heck of a life, and she is a powerhouse of a performer.
- [‘Killer’s Head’ & ‘The Unseen Hand’ — Adventures in Sam Shepard’s Brain](https://thetvolution.com/2020/01/killers-head-the-unseen-hand-adventures-in-sam-shepards-brain/) - y Ernest Kearney — The story goes that while giving an interview, many years back, Playwright Edward Albee was asked his opinion as to Sam Shepard. Albee responded with, “He writes good plays – about every third one.”
- [Best Theatre of the Year — Looking Back At L.A.'s 2019](https://thetvolution.com/2020/01/best-theatre-of-the-year-looking-back-at-l-a-s-2019/) - By Ernest Kearney — I give to you my personal list of the best theatre Los Angeles offered in 2019, with a few swipes at the less of the best…. First off, the production of August Wilson’s "Jitney" at the Mark Taper Forum. Wilson’s works share a distinction with those of Shakespeare, in that when...
- [‘Christmas Carol’— A Lovely Show That Just Lacks Chime…..](https://thetvolution.com/2019/12/christmas-carol-a-lovely-show-that-just-lacks-chime/) - By Ernest Kearney — David Mynne’s one-man show of Charles Dickens’ "Great Expectations" knocked me off my feet last year.
- [August Wilson’s 'Jitney' Provides a Perfect Ride at the Taper](https://thetvolution.com/2019/12/august-wilsons-jitney-provides-a-perfect-ride-at-the-taper/) - By Ernest Kearney — With his play Jitney, August Wilson provided the book-end for both extremes of his ten-play series The Pittsburgh Cycle, which explores the black experience in the America of the 20th century.
- [Unraveled: A Tight Production at the Sherry Theater](https://thetvolution.com/2019/12/unraveled-a-tight-production-at-the-sherry-theater/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Collaborative Artists Ensemble’s staging of "Unraveled" by Jennifer Blackmer brings to its audiences a serious, solid piece of theatre that displays the highest of good intentions while exhibiting the
- [‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ There’s Only a Void](https://thetvolution.com/2019/12/between-riverside-and-crazy-theres-only-a-void/) - By Ernest Kearney — While watching a stage magician’s performance there is an unavoidable disappointment when one can plainly see the plexiglass boxes beneath the surface of the water he’s supposedly walking on, or when we catch a glimpse of the metal rod he’s standing in front of that holds the “levitating” woman aloft.
- [The Unadulterated Satisfaction in 'Great Expectations'](https://thetvolution.com/2019/11/the-unadulterated-satisfaction-in-great-expectations/) - The Tvolution is reprinting the following review, in anticipation of the upcoming production of “A Christmas Carol,” playing at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, December 4 through December 8.
- [‘Defenders’ the Fear Found in the Fjords](https://thetvolution.com/2019/11/defenders-the-fear-found-in-the-fjords/) - By Ernest Kearney — Defenders by Cailin Maureen Harrison is an odd little hybrid, that comes across like M. Night Shyamalan had usurped from Steven Spielberg the direction of Saving Private Ryan. Currently running at The Broadwater in Hollywood, the play is well-packed with strong characters, an exotic setting and an ambitious fusing of gritty war drama and supernatural thriller.
- [Matt Ritchey’s ‘Romeo and Juliet In Hell’ Exposes the Funnier Side of Eternal Damnation](https://thetvolution.com/2019/11/matt-ritcheys-romeo-and-juliet-in-hell-exposes-the-funnier-side-of-eternal-damnation/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Romeo and Juliet in Hell," written and directed by Matt Ritchey, currently being staged at the Actor’s Workout Studio is a rough and tough, rather ribald, ride.
- [Yorkies of the Baskervilles In Richard Lucas’ ‘The Dog Log’](https://thetvolution.com/2019/11/yorkies-of-the-baskervilles-in-richard-lucas-the-dog-log/) - By Ernest Kearney — In his 1944 play No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre famously penned, “Hell is other people.” In The Dog Log, the epistolary memoirs by Richard Lucas, I’m sure the author might insist Sartre apply the adjunct “And Yorkies too!”
- [‘Deadly’—Vanessa Claire Stewart’s Serial Killer Musical Doesn’t Slay You](https://thetvolution.com/2019/10/deadly-vanessa-claire-stewarts-serial-killer-musical-doesnt-slay-you/) - By Ernest Kearney — Roberta Kathleen Parks, Audrey Nelson, Mary Jo Peyton, Shirley Marie Sherrill, Melissa Anne Smith, Carrie Ann Rois, Kathie Sue Pierce, Steven Tuomi, Shannon Zielinski, Sue Luna, Dorothy Keeler, Emeline Cigrand, Lela Kneiding, John Butkovich, Lisa Levy, Margaret Bowman, Minnie Williams. Chances are you don’t know any of those names. They were all victims of serial killers whose names you most likely do know:
- ['Handjob' Comes to Grip with some Large Issues….](https://thetvolution.com/2019/10/handjob-comes-to-grip-with-some-large-issues/) - By Ernest Kearney — "One of the Nice Ones" produced in 2016 by the Echo Theater Company resulted in two accomplishments for its playwright Erik Patterson.
- [Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Take the Stand in "Sisters In Law"](https://thetvolution.com/2019/10/sandra-day-oconnor-and-ruth-bader-ginsburg-take-the-stand-in-sisters-in-law/) - By Ernest Kearney — Jonathan Shapiro’s "Sisters in Law" now at the Wallis is based on Linda Hirshman’s bestselling dual biography on Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve on the Supreme Court.
- [“Never Ever Land” Explores the Crimes of the Accusers](https://thetvolution.com/2019/10/never-ever-land-explores-the-crimes-of-the-accusers/) - By Ernest Kearney — In their theatrical variation of the Three Card Monty scam entitled Never Ever Land on the stage of Theatre Unleashed, Playwright Rider Strong and Director Michael A. Shepperd have deployed all the needed dramatic elements –
- [Bill Irwin’s ON BECKETT — “Ever tried. Ever Failed. No Matter….”](https://thetvolution.com/2019/09/bill-irwins-on-beckett-ever-tried-ever-failed-no-matter/) - by Ernest Kearney — What is the definitive symbolic icon of man’s crucible of flesh? The precise embodiment of his indarba to the narrow vale of life? Is it the Promethean Titan, Kafka’s Josef K, Joyce’s Leopold Bloom or Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane? Is it Faust or Ahab or Oedipus?
- [A Tuneful Tribute to “A Man Named Jed…”](https://thetvolution.com/2019/09/a-tuneful-tribute-to-a-man-named-jed/) - By Ernest Kearney — Nowadays most people, — particularly those generations born after the epoch when high school courses were given on the proper use of the slide rule and Johnson & Johnson Band-Aids® still came packaged with that handy little red “tear string” — will look at you dimly at the mention of the name Buddy Ebsen.
- [“Scraps”… Smaller Pieces Please.](https://thetvolution.com/2019/08/scraps-smaller-pieces-please/) - By Ernest Kearney — The best theatre I’ve seen has been on bare stages, under looming oak trees, in gloomy, ramshackle homes. So whenever I walk into an equity-waver house and I see a really superbly designed (and undoubtedly expensive) set it always makes me nervous...
- [“I Am Not A Man” is Not a Lot of Things…, But-](https://thetvolution.com/2019/08/i-am-not-a-man-is-not-a-lot-of-things-but/) - By Ernest Kearney — "I Am Not A Man" is a stand up routine trying to pass for a solo show, more than anything else, and usually those are less than successful. What saves this one from that fate is the sincerity of Writer/Performer Heather Kozlakowski.
- ["Thank You for Loving Me"... Guns Don’t Kill People, Relationships Do!](https://thetvolution.com/2019/08/thank-you-for-loving-me-guns-dont-kill-people-relationships-do/) - By Ernest Kearney — There are seldom any survivors when a relationship crashes and burns, just those who walk away maybe a little wiser. That is essentially what Scott Langer’s "Thank You For Loving Me" tries to offer.
- ["Loose Underwear" Suffers from a Loose Narrative](https://thetvolution.com/2019/07/loose-underwear-suffers-from-a-loose-narrative/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Loose Underwear" has a great deal going for it not the least of which is Writer/Performer Dagmar Stansova.
- [“Beyond Glory”— and an Appeal to the Fringe Community](https://thetvolution.com/2019/07/beyond-glory-and-an-appeal-to-the-fringe-community/) - By Ernest Kearney — I make an effort to see all the international shows and those productions coming from other states to participate in the Hollywood Fringe Festival early on in the festival.
- [Let’s Write a Musical — Death, Where is Thy Sing?](https://thetvolution.com/2019/07/lets-write-a-musical-death-where-is-thy-sing/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Let’s Write a Musical," played the McCadden Theatre at this year’s Hollywood Fringe. It is a show of contradictions, commencing with Director John Coppola’s usage of slender enactments in its staging that makes for a charming presentation of Playwright Lawrie Chiaro Smylie’s work...
- [The Play That Goes Wrong… and Goes, and Goes, and Goes…](https://thetvolution.com/2019/07/the-play-that-goes-wrong-and-goes-and-goes-and-goes/) - By Ernest Kearney – "The Play That Goes Wrong" is a huge Hindenburg of a cartoon which has found its mooring mast at the Ahmanson Theatre. Perhaps the “cartoon” lacks the screwiness of a Tex Avery or Chuck Jones romp, but it delivers solid Magilla Gorilla if not Blitz Wolf.
- [The Tvolution 2019 Hollywood Fringe Awards Are Here!](https://thetvolution.com/2019/07/the-tvolution-2019-hollywood-fringe-awards-are-here/) - By Ernest Kearney — This year the TVO crew and I saw 76 shows and from those, here are THE TVOLUTION 2019 Fringe Awards…
- [“The Duchess and The Stripper” — History in a G-String](https://thetvolution.com/2019/07/the-duchess-and-the-stripper-history-in-a-g-string/) - By Ernest Kearney — Blaze Starr, stripper and paramour of Louisiana Governor Earl Long (brother of Huey), and Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor who shook the English monarchy to its foundation, shared in common Baltimore as a home town.
- [“Princess Magic’s Trash Time Revue” — Talent in Search of a Show](https://thetvolution.com/2019/07/princess-magics-trash-time-revue-talent-in-search-of-a-show/) - By Ernest Kearney — I always say, at least to anyone willing to listen, that the two most common types of failures, theatre-wise, are those shows which are wonderfully produced but have no idea, and those shows that have a solid concept and are poorly produced.
- [Propelled Power: Duchess Elizabeth, Eva Braun, Mamie Till – The One and Only Earwax of HFF2019….](https://thetvolution.com/2019/07/propelled-power-duchess-elizabeth-eva-braun-mamie-till-the-one-and-only-earwax-of-hff2019/) - By Ernest Kearney — Readers of my Fringe reviews on TVO are undoubtedly familiar with the rating system I apply to the shows I see. There are five grades. That wasn’t always the case. My first year of reviewing there were only three, modeled on the classic Olympian divisions. It was during my second years attending the Fringe as TVO’s theatre critic that I added the uppermost and the lowermost classes.
- [‶Temple Tantrum″ A Perfect Performance in a Near Perfect Show….](https://thetvolution.com/2019/07/‶temple-tantrum″-a-perfect-performance-in-a-near-perfect-show/) - By Ernest Kearney — Fear and the pain we deny are the cancers of the soul. Having been raised in the Solid Rock Ministries, a right wing conservative Christian cult that publicly punished its disciples for offenses in the eyes of the community and would even take children away from their parents and give them to other members, Nicole Steinwedell, “Temple Tantrum’s” creative force, knows something of both fear and pain.
- [“The Trial Of Dali” — A Good Argument for Reinstating the Death Penalty](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/the-trial-of-dali-a-good-argument-for-reinstating-the-death-penalty/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Drama Theatre Fantazja from Sydney, Australia arrived at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019 with an international cast and a beautifully produced staging of "The Trial of Dali" by playwright Andrew Kolo.
- [“(Im) Perfekt” — Self Awareness vs Self Appearance](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/im-perfekt-self-awareness-vs-self-appearance/) - By Ernest Kearney — Are we the sum of our parts, or our parts themselves? Can we ever be free to be fully ourselves independent of our features?
- ["Public Domain: The Musical" – A Chorus Line of Icons](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/public-domain-the-musical-a-chorus-line-of-icons/) - By Ernest Kearney — Sam Pasternak’s concept in “Public Domain, The Musical,” while poking fun at Disney Studio’s propensity for squeezing profits out of any literary character for whom it won’t have to pay royalties is simple and straightforward.
- [“Olivia Wilde Does Not Survive the Apocalypse” — And That Matters Why?](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/olivia-wilde-does-not-survive-the-apocalypse-and-that-matters-why/) - By Ernest Kearney — It strikes me that certain shows at the Fringe are trying to follow the success of "The Mighty Boosh," the surreal skit comedy that went from hit at the Edinburgh Fringe to BBC cult classic and one such hopeful is "Olivia Wilde Does Not Survive the Apocalypse"...
- [“The Mayor’s Debate of Tranquility, Nebraska” — A Silly, Insightful Parable of the American Electorate](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/the-mayors-debate-of-tranquility-nebraska-a-silly-insightful-parable-of-the-american-electorate/) - By Ernest Kearney "The Mayor’s Debate of Tranquility, Nebraska" at the Complex Hollywood, while both a "Twilight Zone" doppelganger and political parable is certainly the cream that rises to the top.
- ["The Last PowerPoint" – Points to Talent](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/the-last-powerpoint-points-to-talent/) - By Ernest Kearney — At the start of "The Last PowerPoint," which played The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019, the CEO of disIncorporated plunges into a room to razzle and dazzle his prospective consumers with a high powered corporate pitch to introduce his company’s newest item,
- [“Jamba Juice The Musical” — Juicy Enough and No Lemon](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/jamba-juice-the-musical-juicy-enough-and-no-lemon/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Jamba Juice The Musical" is a rough, toe-tapping little ditty, a kind of “Hey, I’ve got a barn” musical only without the “barn.” In other words, it’s perfect for Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019.
- [Aristophanes’ "The Birds” Doesn’t Quite Take Flight](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/aristophanes-the-birds-doesnt-quite-take-flight/) - By Ernest Kearney — Some plays, due to the period of their composition or the language in which originally penned, present various problems for those wishing to stage them. But none hold more difficulties than Aristophanes’ "The Birds."
- [“Wigfield” — Snickers at the Diseased Heartland of America](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/wigfield-snickers-at-the-diseased-heartland-of-america/) - By Ernest Kearney — A writer (Scott Golden) is assigned to do a book on the town of Wigfield. Nestled in the shadow of a threatened dam, it is a small community that makes David Lynch’s "Twin Peaks" look like Mayberry...
- [“Pretty, Witty Nell” Prances yet Stumbles](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/pretty-witty-nell-prances-yet-stumbles/) - By Ernest Kearney — Ryan J-W Smith is a known and respected quality among long time Fringers; admired for such productions as 'MacDeth," his wacky and wonderful word fest that reworked "The Tragedy of Macbeth" into the silliest of romps with swordplay and men in miniskirts.
- [“Tattered Capes” — It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s an Awful Lot of Fun!](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/tattered-capes-its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-an-awful-lot-of-fun/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Tattered Capes" by Gregory Crafts is like a Graphic Novel for the serious Graphic Novel reader. It starts at the fifth anniversary dinner of Kevin (Travis Joe Dixon) and Stephanie (Joanna Mercedes). However, there’s trouble.
- ["Raised by Wolves" — A Merry, Murderous, Marvelous Modern Myth](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/raised-by-wolves-a-merry-murderous-marvelous-modern-myth/) - By Ernest Kearney — The power of story is in its journey, it matters little whether that journey is Odysseus’s, Luke Skywalker’s or Billie Dawn’s. And a journey is at its core and essence,
- [“Drought” – A Tsunami of Talent](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/drought-a-tsunami-of-talent/) - By Ernest Kearney — Poetess-songsmith-performer Kate Radford and Co-Producer Shoshannah Frankel have given the Hollywood Fringe Festival a work of lyricism and challenge in "Drought,"
- ["Klingon Tamburlaine" – Boldly Goes Where No Elizabethan Has Gone Before](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/klingon-tamburlaine-boldly-goes-where-no-elizabethan-has-gone-before/) - By Ernest Kearney — School of Night is known and respected on the Fringe circuit for performing acrobatic feats of artistry with skillful aplomb as was on display in their "Punch and Judy," followed by Christopher Marlowe’s "The Faggot King" and their HFF2018’S staging of...
- ["Son of a Bitch" Winning at the Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/son-of-a-bitch-winning-at-the-fringe/) - By David Nairne — "Son Of A Bitch," running at the Broadwater during Hollywood Fringe 2019, focuses on Lee Atwater’s — Republican-Strategist-Liar-Driven-Liar-Brilliant-Liar-Son-of-a-Bitch— rise to power. The piece asks and answers two important questions:
- [“The Bully Problem” — Relatable Fun for Everyone](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/the-bully-problem-relatable-fun-for-everyone/) - By David Nairne — Proudly go get your geek-on at "The Bully Problem," now playing at the Broadwater Main Stage for the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019. It is a tale as old as time: Defensive super-powered android changes the balance of power...
- ["Ride or Die: The Hip-Hop Musical," A Head Bopping Good Time](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/ride-or-die-the-hip-hop-musical-a-head-bopping-good-time/) - By David Nairne — You are going to have a frigging good time at "Ride or Die: The Hip-Hop Musical." My first thoughts as I walked out of the production, smiling. I also realized that it was a special experience. One unlike any I’ve had in the theater before.
- ["Mil Grus" — An Amazing Abyss of Artsy Abstract Absurdity](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/mil-grus-an-amazing-abyss-of-artsy-abstract-absurdity/) - By Ernest Kearney — An Amazing Abyss of Artsy Abstract Absurdity.* I ran into Mitchell Bisschop, ("Pit Of Goblins" writer/performer) on my way to see "Mil Grus." “Oh, joy!” he exclaimed – or words to that effect – when I told him where I was heading.
- [Murderous, Muddled and Merry Mayhem in a "Pit of Goblins"](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/murderous-muddled-and-merry-mayhem-in-a-pit-of-goblins/) - By Ernest Kearney — Last year, Mitchell Bisschop’s reworking of Madison Avenue icons into the "Citizen Kane" homage of "I Can Hear You Now," demonstrated he was writer/performer of both talent and a sterling comic sensibility. This year’s "Pit of Goblins" reveals a far more twisted aspect to Bisschop.
- ["A Bit Much" Needs a Bit More of Stacy Dymalski](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/a-bit-much-needs-a-bit-more-of-stacy-dymalski/) - By Ernest Kearney — Stacy Dymalski is both smart and sharp a reality attested to in her HFF2018’s show "The Other Side of the Razor Ribbon." Her latest show "A Bit Much," for the Hollywood Fringe 2019 has a bit more personal focus.
- [A Tale of Paradise Lost in “Lock Your Heart, Elder P”](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/a-tale-of-paradise-lost-in-lock-your-heart-elder-p/) - By Ernest Kearney — In "Lock Your Heart, Elder P.," Performer/Writer Robert Perkins offers an absorbing insight into both the psyche of the young Mormons sent out on their two year “rite of passage” by the church, as well as the directives used by the church-governing body to isolate them from
- [“Squeeze My Cans “Squeeze My Cabaret” A Double Whammy for Scientology!](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/squeeze-my-cans-squeeze-my-cabaret-a-double-whammy-for-scientology/) - By Ernest Kearney — Cathy Schenkelberg’s harrowing, hilarious and eye-opening account of her 20 years in the Scientology cult, "Squeeze My Cans," was one of the hits of HFF2016 and took top honors with TVO as the Best One-Woman Shows.
- [A Mellifluous Morality Tale in “Clark Wade - A Jazzy Tragedy”](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/a-mellifluous-morality-tale-in-clark-wade-a-jazzy-tragedy/) - By Ernest Kearney One-man show, "Clark Wade - A Jazzy Tragedy," is a stylish recounting of the rise and fall of Clark Wade, one of the Big Easy legendary “Gentlemen of Leisure.”
- ["Start Swimming" Needs to go in The Deep End](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/start-swimming-needs-to-go-in-the-deep-end/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Indomitus Theatre Company is young…. Very young. They are in the flush of discovery of the power and the magic that is the wonder of stage. I have no doubt that as they gather more years and more experience that they will do some wonderful work.
- [A Well-Titled "Catastrophe!"](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/a-well-titled-catastrophe/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Catastrophe!" is unfortunately the most aptly named show of this year’s Hollywood Fringe.
- [“Double Falsehood” Plays True](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/double-falsehood-plays-true/) - By Ernest Kearney — Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company has dedicated itself to the plays of Shakespeare; with "Double Falsehood," part of the Hollywood Fringe for 2019, they have moved into the realm of debated plays by the Bard.
- [“Five Pieces of Paper” – A Tragic Tale Tragically Lost in Clutter](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/five-pieces-of-paper-a-tragic-tale-tragically-lost-in-clutter/) - By Ernest Kearney — It was the sight of torch-wielding marchers parading through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia chanting, “Jews shall not replace us,” in 2017 that inspired Moti Buchboot to tell the story of his Grandmother’s survival during the Holocaust...
- [“Caitlin Cook: Death Wish” – And We’re Off To A Good Start!](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/caitlin-cook-death-wish-and-were-off-to-a-good-start/) - By Ernest Kearney — We enter the Broadwater, the venue where I was covering my first show for Hollywood Fringe 2019, to the recording of individuals revealing whatever it is they are afraid of:
- [“Lincoln 2020” – Another Bad Night for Abe in The Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/lincoln-2020-another-bad-night-for-abe-in-the-theatre/) - By Ernest Kearney — A promising premise from Playwright/Producer Holiday Kinard: What if... we could resurrect the ideal nominee from our past; the great emancipator, the Sage from Springfield: Abe Lincoln?
- [Made For Each Other – A Touching Love Story of Love on the Abyss](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/made-for-each-other-a-touching-love-story-of-love-on-the-abyss/) - By Ernest Kearney — The onset of Alzheimer’s and the devastation it wreaks on lives has been oft chronicled and the ravages of illness upon the gay community has been examined to near excess in the phalanx of AIDS centered plays; to the extent that
- [“Mormon Playgirl” – There is ‘Play’ – Just Not Enough ‘Girl’](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/mormon-playgirl-there-is-play-just-not-enough-girl/) - By Ernest Kearney — CC Sheffield’s story is pretty standard stuff at any Fringe... Some of the writing, credited to Zara Burdett, is very clever.
- ["Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth" Burns Fiercely](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/hide-your-fires-butoh-lady-macbeth-burns-fiercely/) - By Ernest Kearney — A chair and a twisted statue are all that is on the stage as the audience shuffles in the dimness to find and settle into their seats for "Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth." The customary pre-show buzz of conversation that swarms over the venue fades
- [HFF 2019 TVO's Final List — Part II](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/hff-2019-tvos-final-list-part-ii/) - By Ernest Kearney — Edward C. Goodman is a Fringe veteran of such HFF laff-generators as "Mr. Mark Twain Answers All Your Questions and The Poe Show." I’m happy to see that producers Kristen Boulé got him off his meds long enough for this production
- [Fringe Fest '19 — TVO Final Recommendations](https://thetvolution.com/2019/06/fringe-fest-19-tvo-final-recommendations/) - By Ernest Kearney — Well what do you know? Here’s The Tvolution’s final list of recommendations prior to the opening of the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival, which runs the entire month of June. And they are a captivating catalog to say the least...
- [An Artful Find: ICT's Presentation of Arthur Miller's "The Price"](https://thetvolution.com/2019/05/an-artful-find-icts-presentation-of-arthur-millers-the-price/) - By Ernest Kearney — The International City Theatre mounts sturdy, structured and splendid productions of nearly every play it presents.
- ["Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story" Extended at the Wallis](https://thetvolution.com/2019/05/hershey-felder-a-paris-love-story-extended-at-the-wallis/) - By Ernest Kearney — Hershey Felder began doing his solo shows based on the lives of great composers some twenty-five years ago at the old Tiffany Theatre on Sunset Boulevard. This fact is missing from his resume to avoid having to deal with the East Coast hubris of both drama critics and the ticket buying Manhatteners who tend to have a rather vicious prejudice against shows originating in Los Angeles.
- [Impeachment is a Rabbit Hole ](https://thetvolution.com/2019/05/impeachment-is-a-rabbit-hole/) - It’s a safe bet that more people want Trump out of office than want him in. Hell, that was true on Election Day 2016. But he’s in there now, doing his best to bankrupt the country, both monetarily and morally. The Science Fiction writer in me wants to see him and his Republican sycophants sucked
- [My Dream Candidate Doesn't Exist](https://thetvolution.com/2019/05/my-dream-candidate-doesnt-exist/) - Sigh… More than twenty Democrats are running for president, and none of them will stuff Trump’s hairpiece down his throat—the one thing I would pay to see. Call me a single-issue donor; I’m searching for a unicorn. And BTW: the extinct Siberian Unicorn above is copyright © W. S. VAN DER MERWE / NATURAL HISTORY
- [Hollywood Fringe Fest '19 Recommendations Round Three](https://thetvolution.com/2019/05/hollywood-fringe-fest-19-recommendations-round-three/) - By Ernest Kearney — Step by step, inch by inch – The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019 draws nearer. Must say, I think this is going to be an exceptional year. First, because there seems to be a larger percentage of veterans than in past years. I could be mistaken, but so it seems to me.
- [Government Run as a Business?](https://thetvolution.com/2019/04/government-run-as-a-business/) - By Steve Schlich — My premise is brutal: business is a cross between a dictatorship and a junta …which makes government run as a business just plain fascist. If you think that’s too arbitrary a judgment, consider the bedrock principle of business: maximize income, minimize expenses. Now try a thought experiment—apply those principles to the
- ["Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics": The AMC Two-Night Event](https://thetvolution.com/2017/10/robert-kirkmans-secret-history-of-comics-the-two-night-event/) - Looking for the “Big Bang” — that spark which initiated what would become America’s if not the World’s interest in comics as a popular entertainment platform? Searching for the underlying import as generation upon generation discovers and develops a growing loyalty to the Comic Book as a visual and literary artform? “Face front, true believers!”— All will be revealed, as AMC presents as part of its Visionaries' series, 'Robert Kirkman’s Secret History Of Comics."
- [HHF2019 Recommendations Round Two](https://thetvolution.com/2019/04/hhf2019-recommendations-round-two/) - By Ernest Kearney — So here you have the second round of Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019 offerings that sound promising:
- [“Les Miz and Friends!”– Cheap Laffs Worth Their Weight in Gold](https://thetvolution.com/2019/04/les-miz-and-friends-cheap-laffs-worth-their-weight-in-gold/) - By Ernest Kearney — We live in a world of tangerine despots, murderous religionists, a generation who places more credibility in lowlifes on the internet than organizations with 45 Pulitzer Prizes among them,
- [“My Life on a Diet” For-Reals and Other Goodies with 'the' Renée Taylor](https://thetvolution.com/2019/04/my-life-on-a-diet-for-reals-with-the-renee-taylor/) - By Ernest Kearney — Watching Renée Taylor’s one-woman show, My Life on a Diet, is akin to sitting on a veranda with the Statue of Liberty, after the two of you have knocked back a couple of bottles of Krug Clos d'Ambonnay and then settled in as that copper babe dishes the reality to you –
- [Hollywood Fringe Festival ˈ19—The 1st Recommendations](https://thetvolution.com/2019/04/hollywood-fringe-festival-ˈ19-the-1st-recommendations/) - By Ernest Kearney — June is slowly but steadily approaching, and with June comes that Saturnalia of the Arts, The Hollywood Fringe to fill the venues of the Santa Monica Boulevard theatre ghetto running from east of Vine Ave to west of Highland, and other stages beyond.
- [Howard Zinn’s “Marx In Soho” Hits the Mark At The Social Stage](https://thetvolution.com/2019/04/howard-zinns-marx-in-soho-hits-the-mark-at-the-social-stage/) - By Ernest Kearney — Howard Zinn, the socialist academic, is most familiar as the author of the 1980 revisionist A People’s History of the United States, which managed and still manages to rattle the cages of historians on both sides of the political spectrum.
- [“Too Much Sun”… Eclipsed By Its Opening Act](https://thetvolution.com/2019/04/too-much-sun-eclipsed-by-its-opening-act/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Too Much Sun" by Playwright Nicky Silver, presently a guest production at the Odyssey Theatre, is a clever and witty work whose cleverness and wit is severely hamstrung by the looseness of its own first act.
- ["Ada and the Engine" in Fine Condition](https://thetvolution.com/2019/03/ada-and-the-engine-in-fine-condition/) - By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Lauren Gunderson is the current “flavor of the month” of the American theatre scene, with her works the most often produced of any living American playwright.
- [Laura Maria Censabella’s “Paradise” - Lost At The Matrix](https://thetvolution.com/2019/03/laura-maria-censabellas-paradise-lost-at-the-matrix/) - Playwright Laura Maria Censabella's "Paradise," having closed a successful run at the Odyssey Theatre has now moved to the Matrix Theatre on Melrose Boulevard for a limited extension thru the end of the month.
- [“Forever Flamenco” at the Fountain Remains Hot-Hot-Hot](https://thetvolution.com/2019/03/forever-flamenco-at-the-fountain-remains-hot-hot-hot/) - By Ernest Kearney — As I’ve been proclaiming for as long as I’ve been reviewing theatre in L.A., the hottest ticket in this town, as well as one of its best-kept secrets, are the monthly Juergas overseen and promoted by Deborah Culver at Hollywood’s Fountain Theatre since 1990.
- [“The Judas Kiss” Reflecting the Imagery of Martyrdom](https://thetvolution.com/2019/03/the-judas-kiss-reflecting-the-imagery-of-martyrdom/) - By Ernest Kearney — There are particular products, —merchandise, institutions and other…stuff— exports from the U.K., which the rest of the world sometimes finds difficulty to appreciate.
- ["Hype Man" — Elevates Our Stories](https://thetvolution.com/2019/03/hype-man-elevates-our-stories/) - By Ernest Kearney — At its best, theatre spans vast separations of time and culture revealing how shared struggles makes a community of all humanity. And this is what Idris Goodwin’s "Hype Man" at The Fountain Theatre, strives to do with its story of a trio of young hip-hop rappers on the very verge of breaking big.
- ["The Old Man and the Old Moon" – The Essence of Hope Emblazoned in Power of Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/2019/03/the-old-man-and-the-old-moon-the-essence-of-hope-emblazoned-in-power-of-theatre/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Old Man and the Old Moon is an assemblage of all the elements that made theatre the earliest and most essential of humanity’s creative expressions:The making of myth and spinning of stories to explain the inexplicable, and
- [GOT, The Final Season—Let's All Inhale](https://thetvolution.com/2019/03/got-the-final-season-lets-all-exhale/) - by Darwyn Carson — Time to Gird Your Loins everybody. If you haven't refreshed your memory yet, there's plenty of time and opportunity to start marathoning previous seasons. Good Luck to us All no matter where your loyalties may reside.
- ["Miss America's Ugly Daughter" — A Runner Up](https://thetvolution.com/2019/03/miss-americas-ugly-daughter-a-runner-up/) - By Ernest Kearney — " Miss America’s Ugly Daughter" written and performed by Barra Grant, the daughter of Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America, was once, possibly, an entertaining evening.
- ['HIR' — A Gender Bashing Romp not Quite There….](https://thetvolution.com/2019/02/hir-a-gender-bashing-romp-not-quite-there/) - By Ernest Kearney — There is an adage in the creative pursuit of playwriting: “It’s easier to set them up than knock them down.” How this translates, in actuality, is that there exists an awful lot of plays with very strong first acts which then proceed to unravel in the second.
- [The Importance of 'Independence'](https://thetvolution.com/2019/01/the-importance-of-independence/) - By Ernest Kearney — As one devoted to the study of history, I knew of Mary Walker (1832–1919), but I confess, only dimly in being aware that she was the only woman ever to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
- [Sex, Greed and Deception Times Two in "DoubleDouble"](https://thetvolution.com/2019/01/sex-greed-and-deception-times-two-in-doubledouble/) - By Ernest Kearney — “DoubleDouble,” playwright Guy Zimmerman reveals in the program notes, “came out of a case I wanted to make for Macbeth being history’s first Angeleno.” Zimmerman attempts to clarify that assertion by hinging the Scottish play to the 1944 classic crime film "Double Indemnity."
- ["Jocasta" ... More a Pity than a Tragedy](https://thetvolution.com/2019/01/jocasta-more-a-pity-than-a-tragedy/) - By Ernest Kearney — In "Jocasta A Motherf**king Tragedy," Brian Weir and the Ghost Road Theatre Company have taken Sophocles’ classic tale of Oedipus and window-dressed it for the “#metoo” movement.
- [Best of Los Angeles Theatre for 2018](https://thetvolution.com/2019/01/best-of-los-angeles-theatre-for-2018/) - By Ernest Kearney — Many found 2018 a rather soft year for theater, and it possibly was. Or perhaps it only seemed so since the past few years Los Angeles has enjoyed an embarrassment of riches in the sterling productions that have graced her stages.
- ["Desert Rats" is not a Wasteland for Audiences](https://thetvolution.com/2019/01/desert-rats-is-not-a-wasteland-for-audiences/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Desert Rats" by Nate Rufus Edelman is hardly the first play ever written about a kidnapping. It stands in the shadow of "Orphans" by Lyle Kessler, though Edelman’s work is far better written.
- ["Skin Jobs" Presents Hard Questions—No Easy Answers](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/skin-jobs-presents-hard-questions-no-easy-answers/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Skin Jobs" by Jim Vejvoda is a short indictment of the undercurrent of racism still in Hollywood. Vejvoda has drawn on his time as a journalist, covering the entertainment industry, to create a tight and timely tale of Kerri (Virginia Tran); a young Asian CGI artist who has been working for a major film studio.
- [A Special Devoid of Specialness](https://thetvolution.com/2019/01/a-special-devoid-of-specialness/) - By Ernest Kearney — Before we move into the review of Playwright Andrew Osborne’s "Special" directed by Kerr Seth Lordygan at Theatre of Note, you should know of the inspiration behind this production: the legendary, or infamous, "The Star Wars Holiday Special. "
- [Love Actually Live – Actually Great Fun](https://thetvolution.com/2018/12/love-actually-live-actually-great-fun/) - By Ernest Kearney — This was my first “mashup” of theatre and film with soundtrack framed within a concert rendering. "Love Actually Live" at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts starts off with points for me ahead of the game.
- [“Fool for Love”—  A Rattlesnake Riff of the Heart](https://thetvolution.com/2018/12/fool-for-love-a-rattlesnake-riff-of-the-heart/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Fool for Love" by Sam Shepard, which just closed the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood, is not a tidy play. In fact, as far as theatrical experiences go, it shares many of the same traits as Elizabethan bear-baiting; brutal and violent—with no discernible objective other than to flaunt brutality and violence.
- ["White Nights, Black Paradise" Makes for Poor Theatre, Rueful Review](https://thetvolution.com/2018/12/white-nights-black-paradise-makes-for-poor-theatre-rueful-review/) - By Ernest Kearney — The story of Jim Jones­ has material enough for any ten dramatists. In the production "White Nights, Black Paradise," which closed this past Sunday at the Hudson Theatre, Playwright Sikivu Hutchinson starts with the arrival of two African American sisters.
- [A Mile in My Shoes – A Journey Worth Traveling…](https://thetvolution.com/2018/11/a-mile-in-my-shoes-a-journey-worth-traveling/) - By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer Kathryn Taylor Smith has accomplished something remarkable with her one woman show "A Mile In My Shoes" currently on stage thru Dec 9, at the Hudson Backstage Theatre in Los Angeles…
- [“Pretty Dead Girl”  –  Love by Another Name](https://thetvolution.com/2018/11/pretty-dead-girl-love-by-another-name/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Pretty Dead Girl – A Musical Necromance." There’s a title that holds promise, wouldn’t you say? Written by Shawn Ku with music & lyrics by AnnMarie Milazzo (with some additional lyrics by Ku) this 2004 short film tells of two star crossed lovers,
- ["Bride of Blood" Dripping with...?](https://thetvolution.com/2018/11/bride-of-blood-dripping-with/) - By Ernest Kearney — At the very least, congratulations must be bestowed on Writer/Director Amit Itelman’s "Bride of Blood" as hands down the wackiest show I’ve encountered in 2018.
- ["Silence!" A Toe Tapper of a Musical is Born](https://thetvolution.com/2018/10/silence-a-toe-tapper-of-a-musical-is-born/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Silence of the Lambs, the 1991 thriller directed by Jonathan Demme—based on the Thomas Harris 1988 novel of the same name/screen adaptation by Ted Tally—dished out one super genius serial killer with an appetite for sautéing his victims and another who was choosing his victims for a dress pattern; mixed in with creepy settings, grotesque murders, and childhood traumas.
- ["A Splintered Soul"  Drama in a Vacuum Splint](https://thetvolution.com/2018/11/a-splintered-soul-drama-in-a-vacuum-splint/) - By Ernest Kearney — We are told by author Alan L. Brooks, he is "a doctor, not a playwright – and he has a 40 year career as a radiologist to prove it.” First, let me get the “cheap shot” outa the way: “Alan, keep your day job.”
- ["Old Clown Wanted" — More Fun Than a Barrel of Monkey](https://thetvolution.com/2018/11/old-clown-wanted-more-fun-than-a-barrel-of-monkey/) - by Ernest Kearney — Matei Visniec is a Romanian playwright who sought and was granted political asylum in France in 1987. Following the collapse of the Communist regime of Nicolai Ceausescu in 1989, Visniec became one of his nation’s most touted dramatists.
- ["Gloria" – A Heavily Armed Production](https://thetvolution.com/2018/10/gloria-a-heavily-armed-production/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Gloria," the Pulitzer Prize-finalist, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is best described as an E-Ticket ride to the infernal regions of hell. Oh yes, indeed, the trip the Echo Theater Company takes you on, starts out full of fun and snickers; but a point is reached when you’re jarred by an abrupt shifting of scenes from the “happiest place on earth” to the set of an Eli Roth flick.
- [“Othello” — A Classical Representation with a Twist](https://thetvolution.com/2018/10/othello-a-classical-representation-with-a-twist/) - By Ernest Kearney — Of all Shakespeare’s plays save "Hamlet," "Othello" offers the most challenges to any cry of players, while also demanding they travel a similar path.
- [A Toolbox for The Resistance](https://thetvolution.com/2018/10/a-toolbox-for-the-resistance/) - By Steve Schlich — Above: #PlaidShirtGuy mocks Trump at a Montana rally. He (and friends) were eventually shooed off-camera, but the video is internet-immortal.
- [Unpacking The Vision of Ray Bradbury at The Whitefire Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/2018/09/unpacking-the-vision-of-ray-bradbury-at-the-whitefire-theatre/) - by Ernest Kearney As he espoused passion for both the city and its theatre, it is fitting that the late writer Ray Bradbury should find himself resurrected on a Los Angeles stage. (The Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks)...
- [How the Left is Losing …Its Mind](https://thetvolution.com/2018/08/how-the-left-is-losing-its-mind/) - By Steve Schlich — Admit it: you’ve clicked on the link “How the Right Lost Its Mind” and read with anxious hope that somehow, naming the beast would slay it. Alas, my friends. The Right did indeed lose its mind, but that was years ago, and it actually worked for them. Now, every time Trump tweets, it’s The Left losing its mind.
- [ICT's "The Glass Menagerie" — The Final Weekend](https://thetvolution.com/2018/09/icts-the-glass-menagerie-the-final-weekend/) - By Ernest Kearney — In 1944 The Glass Menagerie established its young playwright, Tennessee Williams as a major new talent in the world of theatre, and of his 70 plays it remains one of his most highly respected and most often staged. In this autobiographical work, Williams treats the past of his characters—especially the hope
- [The War On Our Election](https://thetvolution.com/2016/09/the-war-on-our-election/) - These days, every comedian and commentator seems to be paraphrasing Bette Davis in All About Eve: “Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy election.” For 2016, I would add: cinch up your Kevlar vest and tighten the chin strap on your battle helmet. While you’re at it, change your password, encrypt your
- ["Special Bulletin": Better Than Ever](https://thetvolution.com/2018/08/special-bulletin-better-than-ever/) - By Ernest Kearney — It always pleases me when I revisit a film after many years and find that it’s as good as I remembered. Alas, that is often not the case. But if anything, the 1983 made-for-TV thriller, Special Bulletin was better than memory held. What may account for this is that the issues
- [Creating Mass Movements — Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow](https://thetvolution.com/2018/08/creating-mass-movements-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow/) - By Ernest Kearney — In these turbulent and twisting times that find so many bewildered and baffled, suckered punched by the events of the last two years, I find myself in this punishing period for our nation oddly consoled by a soothing sense of déjà-vu. Yes, Trump’s victory via that Three-Card Monte constitutional encumbrance called
- [The Heart of Murray Mednick's "Mayakovsky and Stalin"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/08/the-heart-of-murray-mednicks-mayakovsky-and-stalin/) - By Ernest Kearney — When the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was found on April 14, 1930—a suicide at the age of 36—his handwritten note read "To all of you. I die, but don't blame anyone for it, and please do not gossip.
- ["Under Milk Wood" Proffers the Poetics of Life](https://thetvolution.com/2018/08/under-milk-wood-proffers-the-poetics-of-life/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Open Fist Company under Ben Martin’s skillful direction have done well by Author Dylan Thomas in their production of his “Under Milk Wood.”
- [“Blade of Jealousy” Delivers a Paper Cut](https://thetvolution.com/2018/08/blade-of-jealousy-delivers-a-paper-cut/) - By Ernest Kearney — I can’t say I am very conversant with the 17th century Spanish Playwright Tirso de Molina. He was a fascinating contradiction of passions and pursuits.
- [Hershey Felder and Beethoven: To Witness Genius At Play](https://thetvolution.com/2018/08/hershey-felder-and-beethoven-to-witness-genius-at-play/) - By Ernest Kearney — There is nothing as intoxicating as watching a Performance – capital “P.” It matters little if that performance involves any of the muses or is that of a bricklayer, aircraft pilot or bartender.
- [The TVolution Final Medal Tally for Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/the-tvolution-final-medal-tally-for-hollywood-fringe-festival-2018/) - Out of the 380-plus shows presented during Hollywood Fringe Festival Show 2018, 80 were viewed by TVolution critics: 69 of which garnered written coverage (reviews linked to titles below.)
- [Dorothy and Alice take Flight — but the Show Falls Flat…](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/dorothy-and-alice-take-flight-but-the-show-falls-flat/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Aeriform Arts Studios is setup for those interested in learning the skills of trapeze, ribbon silks, lyra hoop and other forms of acrobatic disciplines usually seen featured in Vegas shows and Cirque du Soleil.
- [The TVolution 2018 Hollywood Fringe Awards!](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/the-tvolution-2018-hollywood-fringe-awards/) - By Ernest Kearney — And here they are... TheTVolution 2018 Hollywood Fringe Awards…
- [Tvolution.com Award Fringe 2018 Tallies (HHF18)](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/tvolution-com-award-mid-fringe-2018-tallies-hhf18/) - TheTvolution.com Award Tallies for mid run of the Hollywood Fringe Festival ‘18 (HHF18): We rank all the shows we attend in one of the five categories listed below:
- [Drunk Bible Stories — The Eleventh Plague](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/drunk-bible-stories-the-eleventh-plague/) - By Ernest Kearney — I once taught a class entitled “Industry Reality 101.” The purpose of the class was to strip my students of the delusion, that they had a snowball’s chance in the sauna parlor of Hell, of ever having an acting career in this town, and send their butts fleeing from Hollywood — even if they lived here.
- [“Fresh Meat” — but not Sirloin](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/fresh-meat-but-not-sirloin/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Fresh Meat" is set in a dystopian future where the world order seems to have fused into three distinct classes: cannibals, furries and butchers. Now the only category of that trio which may need some explanation is “furries.”
- [The Other Side of the Razor Ribbon](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/the-other-side-of-the-razor-ribbon/) - By Ernest Kearney — Its title, "The Other Side of the Razor Ribbon," refers to the modern style of barbed wire one sees adorning those fence tops surrounding a standard correctional facility.
- [Left Turns Right Direction](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/left-turns-right-direction/) - By Ernest Kearney — Laura Grimaldi is a whirlwind of a performer with a winning mixture of humor and honesty. In "Left Turns," her one-woman show, she slides easily into a host of characters...
- [We Need this Musical to Stop us from Killing Ourselves — The Musical! Long on Title, Long on Fun….](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/we-need-this-musical-to-stop-us-from-killing-ourselves-the-musical-long-on-title-long-on-fun/) - By Ernest Kearney — Now the funny thing is that the title, We Need This Musical to Stop Us From Killing Ourselves — the Musical! is slightly longer than the show.
- [A Father’s Fears, a Daughter’s Tears, a Hurricane Nears….](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/a-fathers-fears-a-daughters-tears-a-hurricane-nears/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Baba, Jee (Father, Yes)" is a solidly written, smartly directed and tightly performed piece. The story is straight-forward and has, at its center, one of the popular motifs of great drama — from "Oedipus to Long Day’s Journey into Night" — the conflicts of father and child.
- [“New Kid on the Block” Needs a GPS](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/new-kid-on-the-block-needs-a-gps/) - By Ernest Kearney — In his latest Hollywood Fringe Festival offering, "New Kid on the Block," playwright John Patrick Daly's heart is in the right place, and one senses he truly is concerned about the homeless people of L.A.
- [TheTVolution.com 2018 Hollywood Fringe Awards Coming!](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/thetvolution-com-2018-hollywood-fringe-awards-coming/) - The TVolution Hollywood Fringe Festival Awards Coming Soon!
- ["Final Preparations" — Building on Things that go Bump...](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/final-preparations-building-on-things-that-go-bump/) - By Ernest Kearney — There is nothing so evasive as engendering effective and credible dread in a live theatre environment. Films have it easy.
- ["Coasterthon Catastrophe"  A Bucketful of Musical Looniness](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/coasterthon-catastrophe-a-bucketful-of-musical-looniness/) - By Ernest Kearney — " Coasterthon Catastrophe: An Amusement Park Musical" is a rough, dopey, kinda silly, rather tuneful, utterly frantic, sorta fun, 45 minute songfest about a pair of pals left hanging, upside down, at a major amusement park when their roller coaster breaks down.
- [Only the Beginning for "King of the Rats: A Final Symphony"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/only-the-beginning-for-king-of-the-rats-a-final-symphony/) - By Ernest Kearney — “I was like Mozart in his day,” announces Bartholomew (Writer/Performer Montana Cypress) from his sanctuary in an abandoned section of the New York subway. “Misunderstood, misinterpreted but not missed.”
- [The Autism Mamalogues – From the Heart of One Who Knows….](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/the-autism-mamalogues-from-the-heart-of-one-who-knows/) - By Ernest Kearney — There is a great deal of love and passion that has gone into Shannon Penrod’s one woman show The Autism Mamalogues; which is understandable as she is a self-described “Autism Mom.”
- [“Hush” — The Freedom Found in Fantasy…](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/hush-the-freedom-found-in-fantasy/) - By Ernest Kearney — Like little boys with their toy soldiers, so, too, are little girls with their dolls: They weave webs of fantasies. But nothing, as psychologists have finally realized over the recent decades, is quite as important as the pretend world of a child.
- [Pervert: A Plunge into Political Corruption](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/pervert-a-plunge-into-political-corruption/) - By Ernest Kearney — Writer/director Giovanni Zuniga has succeeded in doing what few playwrights seldom do: knock one out of the stadium, first time up to bat; which is exactly what Zuniga has done with "Pervert."
- ["Men of Blood" A Splattered Canvas](https://thetvolution.com/2018/07/men-of-blood-a-splattered-canvas/) - By Ernest Kearney — Well I can’t say that I was able to discern the “three short plays, written by contemporary German authors.” There was just a single, intense, extended scene.
- [The Anguish of "Long Day’s Journey Into Night" — the Final Weekend at The Wallis](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/the-anguish-of-long-days-journey-into-night-the-final-weekend-at-the-wallis/) - By Ernest Kearney — In Eugene O’Neill’s, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” in production at the Wallis through July 1st, 2018, we witness a doomed family on stage before us. All love, all compassion, all warmth and tenderness, all hope is corrupted by the incessant need to bestow blame, to conceal guilt by fault finding, to exonerate oneself in accusing the other. Here is all the torment of the ancient Harpies found in a single family.
- ["Butoh Medea" – East Meets West in Madness](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/butoh-medea-east-meets-west-in-madness/) - By Ernest Kearney — It is regrettable that more audiences didn’t have the opportunity of seeing "Butoh Medea," an adaptation of Euripides’ harrowing Greek classic of a mother who, due to the betrayal and infidelities of her husband, was driven to slaughter her children
- ["Doctor Zomba’s Ghost Show of Terror"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/doctor-zombas-ghost-show-of-terror/) - By Ernest Kearney — David Lucarelli’s "Doctor Zomba’s Ghost Show of Terror" is straight forward fun. As directed by Kevin Wetmore it harkens back to the old Jeepers-Creepers Shows of the 1960s.
- ["The Dead Guy" by Eric Coble (HFF18)](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/the-dead-guy-by-eric-coble-hff18/) - By Ernest Kearney — A small town unemployed knuckle-dragging ne'er-do-well (Adam Ferguson) is approached by a producer of reality TV (Te’juana Johnson) with an offer. The producer will pay Ferguson one million dollars; he will have one week to spend the sum however he likes, while the producer and her cameraman (Jeremiah Ripley) follow along filming him.
- ["A Beast/A Burden" — Not  Your Average Animal](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/a-beast-a-burden-not-your-average-animal/) - By Ernest Kearney — If most non-artists know the name Chris Burden (1946-2015), it is for the art installation “Urban Light,” in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Wilshire Boulevard, featuring 202 antique street lamps that once provided illumination to neighborhoods scattered throughout the city.
- ['Puppet Parables' Closes Strong With Talent](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/puppet-parables-closes-strong-with-talent/) - By Ernest Kearney — Puppeteer Jean Minuchin’s "Still Life of an Orange and Other Puppet Parables" starts off strong and closes strong but… somewhere along the way, the middle falls out, leaving a center that doesn’t seem connected to the creative bookends it’s wedged between.
- ["Still" ... Superb](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/still-superb/) - By Ernest Kearney — Still is a stylishly staged deconstruction of a murder mystery, involving three high school students, that shifts between the police investigation immediately after the crime to a random meeting between two of the, centrally involved, figures years later.
- [Doctor Nympho vs. the Sex Zombies — The Perfect Pairing](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/doctor-nympho-vs-the-sex-zombies-the-perfect-pairing/) - By Ernest Kearney — Michael Shaw Fisher has apparently taken to heart George Burns’ sage advice on how to be a success in “showbiz.” According to Burns, “Find talent and marry it.” That Fisher started out as a pretty talented guy has only gained a further luster with his on-and-off-stage pairing with Alli Miller.
- ["Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk" Mining a Treasure Trove of Laughter](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/resa-fantastiskt-mystisk-mining-a-treasure-trove-of-laughter/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Burglars of Hamm are a delightfully merry and madcap lot. And if you needed proof of that, well there’s "Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk," which has been extended from its Hollywood Fringe 2018 run.
- ["The Big Picture" — Not Worth a 1000 Words](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/the-big-picture-not-worth-a-1000-words/) - By Ernest Kearney — "The Big Picture" is as cluttered, chaotic and confused as your average, interstate, multi-vehicle pileup and even less fun. Holly Goodfellow wanders about a stage festooned with bags, boxes and gym bags which he digs in throughout the show, occasionally pulling out some prop item to help him with a gag.
- ["The Importance of Being Oscar" While at Hôtel d'Alsace](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/the-importance-of-being-oscar-while-at-hotel-dalsace/) - By Ernest Kearney — "The Importance of Being Oscar" is demonstrative of a particular difficulty in writing plays, scripts or novels dealing with historical personages; the author must always master them.
- [More Please — Butoh at the Fringe in "Shilo Kloko"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/shilo-kloko-butoh-fringe/) - By Ernest Kearney — It is a pity that "Shilo Kloko" was at the Fringe so briefly, because it offers a wonderful opportunity to experience Butoh dance theatre and Japanese puppetry art.
- [To Spend a "Last Christmas" at the Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/to-spend-a-last-christmas-at-the-fringe/) - By Ernest Kearney — If you watch enough of the shows produced by that Fringe stalwart Michael Blaha you realize he knows one of the great secrets of successful producers. Forget helicopters flying over the audience or high-tech computerized video effects or a...
- ["Earhart: More Than A F**king Mystery"—One for the Songbooks](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/earhart-more-than-a-fking-mystery-one-for-the-songbooks/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Earhart: More Than A F**king Mystery" is your basic fun-time show. It doesn’t go into the many sundry accusations about her actual skills as an aviator, nor does it investigate the charges of shameless promoting done by Earhart’s husband George P. Putnam. What the play does do, is give the writer the opportunity to pen a load of fun little ditties
- ["Ain't That America" For Resonance Felt Round the World](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/aint-that-america-for-resonance-felt-round-the-world/) - By Ernest Kearney — Ain’t That America offers a truly unique viewpoint on a segment of our country that has been legitimatized and emboldened since the last presidential election: the young alt-right conservatives of the South.
- ["Mackers!" is Wackers at its Best](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/mackers-is-wackers-at-its-best/) - By Ernest Kearney — From the very start of the preshow it was evident that the cast of "Mackers!" was not only a talented bunch, but that they respected and were elated by each other’s talents; to me that foretold a good evening ahead.
- ["Spaceman"  — Enters the Eye of the Storm](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/spaceman-enters-the-eye-of-the-storm/) - By Ernest Kearney — Set in the Florida Keys during a raging hurricane "Spaceman," by Writer/Director Melissa Vitello, plays like a Twilight Zone spec-script that Rod Serling would have rejected.
- [The Tragedy of "The Women of Lockerbie"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/the-tragedy-of-the-women-of-lockerbie/) - By Ernest Kearney — On December 21, 1988 a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 souls, aboard, died in the crash—which also claimed the lives of 11 on the ground.
- ["Dracula's Taste Test" — A Fun Change of Pace](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/draculas-taste-test-a-fun-change-of-pace/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Dracula's Taste Test" is no great shakes, but neither does it hold itself up as anything else. Essentially a variety show, featuring Dracula, the whole thing is an enjoyable lark of silly guest monsters, with Jeff Sumner as the “creep” being the stand out.
- ["The Book I'm going to Write, by Judy Garland" — Help Needed](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/book-im-going-to-write-judy-garland/) - by Ernest Kearney — "The Book That I'm Going to Write, by Judy Garland" is an idea that someone should have talked performer/creator Jason Powell out of. We are told that in 1964 Judy Garland, upon contemplating the writing of her memoirs was advised by Irving Paul “Swifty” Lazar.
- ["Black When I Was A Boy" From Heart-Rending to Heart-Hopeful](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/black-when-i-was-a-boy-from-heart-rending-to-heart-hopeful/) - By Ernest Kearney — Cooper Bates’ one-man show, Black When I Was a Boy is a truly heartfelt tale of that banishment from paradise so many of us experience when we first come to learn the sinful truth: The serpent of prejudice and racial intolerance slithers through our world.
- ["Negative Spaces" in Need of More](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/negative-spaces-in-need-of-more/) - By Ernest Kearney — Melanie Holmes’s "Negative Spaces" takes us into a strange and unsettling place. Lily (Holmes) and her longtime boyfriend Adam (Wes McGee) are ready to take their relationship to the next level and begin to plan their wedding.
- ["The Day I Became Black"  — Fun, Funnier, Funniest...](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/the-day-i-became-black-fun-funnier-funniest/) - By Ernest Kearney — Bill Posley’s superbly slick, and raucously funny show, "The Day I Became Black," reveals to his audience the trials and tribulations of growing up biracial in this country.
- ["I Can Hear You Now," Runs with the Laughs](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/i-can-hear-you-now-runs-with-the-laughs/) - By Earnest Kearney — I Can Hear You Now, performed and written by Mitchell Bisschop and directed by Daniel De Lorenzo is a reworking of Citizen Kane to Madison Avenue, in which a well-known spokesperson (“Can you hear me now?”) embarks on a quest to unravel the mystery of his dying mentor’s last words. His dead mentor being the “Mikey” of “Mikey won’t like it,” fame whose dying word— let me tell you— ain’t “Rosebud.”
- [The Genius of "Hercules Insane" at the Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/the-genius-of-hercules-insane-at-the-fringe/) - By Ernest Kearney — The School of Night and its Artistic Director, Christopher Johnson can always be counted on to present an audience with a work that is wonderfully wild and totally rooted in solid theatrics. And such is the case with their newest work, presented during Hollywood Fringe 2018: "Hercules Insane."
- [Joe and Joshua Deliver the Stuff](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/joe-and-joshua-deliver-the-stuff/) - By David Nairne — Damn! "The Joe and Joshua Show!" is clever and funny. Writer performers Joe Hernandez-Kolski and Joshua Silverstein string together eight, or so, superbly performed vignettes with an overriding theme of doubt.
- ["Let There be Thistles" Draws More than Blood](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/let-there-be-thistles-draws-more-than-blood/) - By Ernest Kearney — Actor, Playwright, Joshua Thomas was last at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2014 with "Angels and Whiskey." I hope he doesn’t stay away that long again, because he and director Branda Lock have crafted a true gem with "Let There be Thistles."
- ["Uncivil Correctness"... Not Quite](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/uncivil-correctness-not-quite/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Uncivil Correctness: Joan Rivers, Abbie Hoffman, Bin Laden," apparently, began as a class project and, unfortunately, it still feels like one.
- ["Fort Huachuca" — A Story Ripe for the Telling](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/fort-huachuca-a-story-ripe-for-the-telling/) - By Ernest Kearney — The history of the United States Army installation of Fort Huachuca located in southeast Arizona is a fascinating tale rift with the resonance of this nation’s racial divides. Except for 11 years, from 1892 until 1944, Fort Huachuca housed African American soldiers.
- [A Rather Rocky Shakespeare](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/a-rather-rocky-shakespeare/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Shakes on the Rocks" has a poor concept of what it wants to be. Eleven actors prance out on the stage at the Three Clubs; request the name of a Shakespearian play from the audience. Much Ado About Nothing is called out and accepted.
- [Easy Targets: Artists and Heroes](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/easy-targets-artists-and-heroes/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Easy Targets: Artists and Heroes" doesn’t quite reach the same heady heights as the Burglars of Hamm’s HHF17 offering, but it is still massively-inspired nonsense.
- [Feisty Fun For Everyone: It's "Craftlesque"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/feisty-fun-for-everyone-its-craftlesque/) - By Ernest Kearney - The Cherry Poppins Productions have embraced a formula which has served them well in Hollywood Fringe after Hollywood Fringe – satire, song and strippers. And to judge by the raucous reception given them by the audience, of which I was among, that combo has lost none of its potency.
- ["American Conspiracy" on a Grand Scale](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/american-conspiracy-on-a-grand-scale/) - By Ernest Kearney — "American Conspiracy," playing during the Hollywood Fringe 2018 at The Lounge Theatre, recounts the trials and tribulations individuals face when trying to convince others—and themselves —that everything would be so much better in the world if only people would simply do what they tell them to.
- [A Stranger in A Strange Land — The Retelling of an "Epic Fail"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/a-stranger-in-a-strange-land-the-retelling-of-an-epic-fail/) - by Ernest Kearney - Epics tend to be about champions, giant defeaters, kingdom conquerors, warriors of a thousand battles. But seldom do you find, as the central figure, some poor sod who gets drunk one night and falls asleep on a rooftop, only to wake up the next morning and, forgetting where he is, absent-mindedly walks off the edge; breaking his neck.
- [Coming to America for Her "... Own Private River Phoenix"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/coming-to-america-for-her-own-private-river-phoenix/) - by Ernest Kearney — My Own Private River Phoenix is a smart and funny piece that is just not ready to be staged. Written and performed by Ai Yoshihara she tells how she fell in love with River Phoenix at the age of 9, after watching Stand By Me, and determined that she would come to America and marry him; a decision that even Phoenix’s death could not daunt.
- [Don't Miss The Bitch is Back: An Elton John Cabaret](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/dont-miss-the-bitch-is-back-an-elton-john-cabaret/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Bitch is Back: An Elton John Cabaret is exactly that, no more no less. Director James Carey, with Darci Monet serving as vocal director, guides five actress/singers...
- [Festival Fringe Time in Hollywood 2018, Part I](https://thetvolution.com/2018/05/festival-fringe-time-in-hollywood-2018-part-i/) - By Ernest Kearney — It’s that time once again L.A.! — June! The six month of the year, one of four boasting 30 days, the official flowers of which are the honeysuckle representing “generosity” and “devotion,” and the rose representing…I dunno, “red things with pointy prickly parts?” Named for Juno; Roman goddess of marriage. (Not the 2007 Diablo Cody/Jason Reitman cloying coming-of-age flick.) It was June back in 1903 that Henry Ford took a few days offs from his busy schedule of “Jew-baiting” to found the Ford Motor Company,
- [Happiness is ... "Jack Benny" at The Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/happiness-is-jack-benny-at-the-fringe/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Jack Benny (A Ménage En Train)" is the first perfect Fringe show of 2018. What does that entail? It is superbly performed, excellently staged, intelligently conceived and was so entirely unexpected...
- [The Cup Runneth Over in "House of Tales"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/the-cup-runneth-over-in-house-of-tales/) - By Ernest Kearney - "House of Tales" is bursting with concepts and ideas to the point of avalanching the audience underneath them. Director Changting Lu has an actor wandering the lobby, even before the show commences, all wide-eyed with a lit, ball-shaped lantern searching every corner of the foyer and each individual’s face as if he were Diogenes of Sinope searching for an honest man.
- ["Balls' ON" — A Not So Rough Diamond](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/balls-on-a-not-so-rough-diamond/) - By Darwyn Carson — Writer/Performer Katt Balsan is a force of a singular nature. You can catch her through the end of June in her one-woman show, "Balls’ ON," at The Broadwater Studio during Fringe 2018. Any theatre-goer thirsting for entertainment, inhabiting an even mix of candor, fun, simplicity and drama, should put a check mark next to this title on their “Definitely See” Fringe show list.
- [The "Glitch" is on at the Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/travis-snyder-eaton-glitch-fringe/) - By Ernest Kearney — There is some solid writing in Playwright/Director Travis Snyder-Eaton’s "Glitch," a two-person play about Rachel, a journalist (Gemma Pilar Alfaro), who is interviewing Jonathan, a convicted spree killer (Jordan Klomp).
- ["A Very Die Hard Christmas" Whips it up at the Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/a-very-die-hard-christmas-whips-it-up-at-the-fringe/) - By Ernest Kearney — "A Very Die Hard Christmas" is a rough little laugh-fest and delivers on what it promises quite nicely. Writer Josh Carson and director Gregory Crafts have taken the 1988 Bruce Willis movie blockbuster "Die Hard" and twisted it up very nicely.
- ["Henry V" Presented in an Extraordinary Space](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/henry-v-presented-in-an-extraordinary-space/) - By Ernest Kearney — "Henry V" has long been considered one of Shakespeare’s problem plays; called a “stirring piece of drum-beating and flag-waving” by one critic. But "Henry V" offers more buried ore to be mined than nearly any other work of the Bard.
- ["Blind Spots" is Full of Them](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/blind-spots-is-full-of-them/) - By Ernest Kearney — Blind Spots by Colette Freedman is political, witty and confounding. Gretchen Baxter (Veronica Wylie) is a liberal journalist who lives with Birdy (Koni McCurdy), — her ʹ60s “Peace Corps” mother— is having an affair with her young, student intern Janna (Tamara Burgess), and is slowly losing her eyesight.
- [Matthew Marcum Channels Pollock at the Complex](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/matthew-marcum-channels-pollock-complex/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Unconventional Empire’s production of "Matthew Marcum’s Pollock: A Frequency Parable" proves they are more than capable of living up to their name.
- [Festival Fringe Time in Hollywood 2018, Part II](https://thetvolution.com/2018/05/festival-fringe-time-in-hollywood-2018-part-ii/) - By Ernest Kearney — This is Festival Fringe Time in Hollywood 2018 -Part II. This being Hollywood Fringe, one should expect a few shows dealing with the lure of fame and the pitfalls of its pursuit.
- [A Worthwhile Re-imagining in "An Odyssey"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/a-worthwhile-re-imagining-in-an-odyssey/) - By Ernest Kearney — "An Odyssey" by Patrick Denney is a solid piece of writing that is well-directed by Turner Munch and well-acted by Julia Davis, Joe DeSoto and Carolina Montenegro.
- [The Better Lemon's Hosted Critic's Panel](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/the-better-lemons-hosted-critics-panel/) - by Darwyn Carson — With an eye and a heart dedicated to cohesive connection and support of local theatre, Better Lemons has become a premiere go-to review aggregate hub on the web. To that end a Theatre Critic’s Panel was convened on Saturday, June 2, hosted by Better Lemon’s co-founders Enci and Steve Box.
- [Mime Time with James Direct Presents: Get Out of Your Head!](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/mime-time-with-james-direct-presents-get-out-of-your-head/) - By Ernest Kearney — James Royce is an okay mime. It’s ironic in a way that he’s performing his show in the Complex’s Ruby Theatre. It was Richmond Shepard who first began to connect store fronts along Santa Monica Boulevard and so is one of the godfathers of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
- [Magical Puppets in Search of a Solid Story](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/magical-puppets-in-search-of-a-solid-story/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Rogue Artists Ensemble are an imaginative group that integrates grand theatrics and excellent puppetry into their productions; sometimes with great success as in "The Gogol Project," sometimes less so as in "D is for Dog."
- [It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s an Okay Play...](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-an-okay-play/) - By Ernest Kearney Playwright Greg Kalleres opens "Meanwhile Back at the Super Lair" interestingly enough; with a super hero n a Freudian's couch...
- [Celebrities Shine in “Legends, Movement and Memories” at the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival](https://thetvolution.com/2018/06/celebrities-shine-in-legends-movement-and-memories-at-the-los-angeles-womens-theatre-festival/) - [May 30, 2018] Stars of Broadway, music, movies and television sparkle as the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival (LAWTF) comes to Culver City for a unique performance on Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. The venue will be Ivy Substation...
- [Theate 40 Announces Fifty-Third Season](https://thetvolution.com/2018/05/theate-40-announces-fifty-third-season/) - May 25, 2018 — "Theatre 40, the award-winning professional theatre company in Beverly Hills, announces its fifty-third season. The schedule is as follows: July 19- August 19, 2018: Screwball Comedy. USA Premiere. Written by Norm Foster. Directed by Howard Storm. The year is 1938 and aspiring reporter Mary Hayes is struggling to break into the male-dominated
- ['Soft Power' Tackles Hard Choices](https://thetvolution.com/2018/05/soft-power-tackles-hard-choices/) - by Ernest Kearney — Playwright Henry David Hwang has joined the ranks of an exclusive group. James Thurber the humorist best known for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, was six when he was shot in the left eye by a playmate’s arrow. He would go blind in later life, but the impaired vision that
- [In "Cardboard Piano," Artistry Lies Within](https://thetvolution.com/2018/05/in-cardboard-piano-artistry-lies-within/) - By Ernest Kearney — In my opinion, Long Beach’s International City Theatre artistic director, caryn desai has a genius for selecting and staging plays that are fail-safe, in so far as proving fully satisfying experiences for...
- [Uncomfortable with the Odyssey's "Bad Jews"](https://thetvolution.com/2018/05/uncomfortable-with-the-odysseys-bad-jews/) - By Ernest Kearney — Bad Jews at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble was hard for me to watch. Hard in the same way I find it impossible to watch the British comedy The Office (BBC) by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Don’t misunderstand me, I recognize the genius and talent behind the show. It’s just a
- [A Morality Tale on Thin 'ICE'](https://thetvolution.com/2018/05/a-morality-tale-on-thin-ice/) - by Ernest Kearney — Ice at the 24th Street Theatre is really a matter of “All the King’s horses and all the King’s men.” Now there are few theaters in Los Angeles that can approach the 24th Street Theatre in either its quality of work or in the importance it holds in the theatrical community
- [TAO's Glorious Drumming at The Broad Stage](https://thetvolution.com/2018/05/taos-glorious-drumming-at-the-broad-stage/) - by Ernest Kearney — The origins of Taiko drumming in Japan is lost in that vast attic called history, but the conservative scholars will tell you that it appeared in Japan, between the 5th and 6th centuries C.E., imported from either China or Korea.
- [Off the Beaten Pathé: “Tickling Giants”](https://thetvolution.com/2018/04/off-the-beaten-pathe-tickling-giants/) - by Ernest Kearney — Imagine if Donald Trump was president for life, that all the TV stations were operated by Fox News and that the nation’s population was an overwhelming mish-mash of “dittoheads,” “truthers,” and “birthers.” Well, welcome to Bassem Youssef’s world. If that name sounds vaguely familiar to you then maybe you read about
- [Lula Washington Dance Theatre at the Ford](https://thetvolution.com/2018/04/lula-washington-dance-theatre-at-the-ford/) - The Lula Washington Dance Theatre (LWDT) the Los Angeles-based repertoire dance ensemble will perform in a joyous evening of dance, Friday, June 8 at 8:30pm, as part of its IGNITE @ the FORD! series..
- [Off the Beaten Pathé: 'The House is Black'](https://thetvolution.com/2018/03/off-the-beaten-pathe-house-is-black/) - by Ernest Kearney — Forough Farrokhzad was the subject of Sussan Deyhim’s The House is Black which I recently reviewed at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Little known outside of Iran, Farrokhzad was famously infamous in her native land, both, as a poet of starkly sexual verse and for being at the forefront of that country’s feminist movement refusing to be bound by the diktats of a patriarchal and resolutely conservative society.
- ["Keith Moon, Real Me" at the Hudson — The Uneven Life of a Genius Drummer](https://thetvolution.com/2018/04/keith-moon-real-me-at-the-hudson-the-uneven-life-of-a-genius-drummer/) - by Ernest Kearney — In "Keith Moon the Real Me," playing at Hudson Theatre’s Maintstage thru April 15, writer and performer Mick Berry certainly does look the part, bearing more than a passing resemblance to the drummer who died of an over-dose in 1978 at the of 32.
- [Car Culture In The Fast Lane — The Petersen Museum](https://thetvolution.com/2018/03/car-culture-in-the-fast-lane-the-petersen-museum/) - By Ernest Kearney — The other night my lovely wife Marlene and I were out walking with a couple of friends, after a pleasant evening of theatre at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, when somehow the conversation turned toward the topic of Los Angeles architecture. Now Marlene and I are both great admirers of this city’s architectural wonderland.
- ["Jackie Unveiled" — Extended at the Wallis](https://thetvolution.com/2018/03/jackie-unveiled-extended-at-the-wallis/) - by Ernest Kearney — The world premiere of "Jackie Unveiled" by award-winning playwright Tom Dugan has been extended at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts through March 18.
- [Twenty-Fifth Annual Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival Announces Line-Up of Hosts](https://thetvolution.com/2018/02/twenty-fifth-annual-los-angeles-womens-theatre-festival-announces-line-up-of-hosts/) - The 25th Annual (Silver Anniversary) Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival (LAWTF) has a roster of distinguished artists who will co-host four days and five programs at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, 4800 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood 90027 and the Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Avenue, Venice. 90291. This year’s overall theme is A Toast to 25!
- ['Freud’s Last Session' — The Great Debate is on at the Odyssey](https://thetvolution.com/2018/02/freuds-last-session-the-great-debate-is-on-at-the-odyssey/) - by Ernest Kearney — It would be difficult to find two more dissimilar figures than the British lay theologian, academic and novelist Clive Staples Lewis and Sigmund Freud the secular Jew and father of psychoanalysis, whose theories of symptom formation, the unconscious, and of the magnitude of repression layered with the interaction of the id,
- ['Two Fisted Love' at the Odyssey — Lots of Talent, but...](https://thetvolution.com/2018/02/two-fisted-love-at-the-odyssey-lots-of-talent-but/) - By Ernest Kearney — There is a great deal of talent involved in "Two Fisted Love" at the Odyssey Ensemble Theatre. On stage and off, the production is saturated with film and television professionals whose program notes would prime the salivation glands of about 87 percent of the actors in this town. Playwright Sessions, who has re-booted Grant Wood’s "American Gothic," has worked the surface details nicely but has not attended to the interior demands of the piece. This limits what director Jules Aaron can accomplish, since a director’s work is 90 percent beneath the surface.
- ['Water by the Spoonful' at the Taper—Does the Pulitzer Winner Satisfy?](https://thetvolution.com/2018/02/water-by-the-spoonful-at-the-taper-does-the-pulitzer-winner-satisfy/) - The 2014 Pulitzer prize-winning drama, “Water by the Spoonful,” at the Mark Taper Forum through March 11, is Act II of the “Elliot” trilogy by “In the Heights” coauthor, Quiara Alegría Hudes.
- [Sussan Deyhim’s Gripping 'House is Black'](https://thetvolution.com/2018/02/sussan-deyhims-gripping-house-is-black/) - by Ernest Kearney — That Sussan Deyhim’s The House is Black Media Project had such a limited engagement at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is unfortunate. Deyhim’s homage to the feminist movement in her native Iran and Forough Farrokhzad—one of that country’s “most influential feminist poets and filmmakers of the 20th century”—reminds
- ["The Chosen" Takes the Stage at The Fountain](https://thetvolution.com/2018/01/the-chosen-takes-the-stage-at-the-fountain/) - by Ernest Kearney — The Fountain Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of “The Chosen,” adapted for the stage Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok—author of the original work—is a well-deserved celebration of the novel’s 50-year anniversary.
- [Women's Lives Matter](https://thetvolution.com/2018/01/womens-lives-matter/) - Above: Screen grab from a YouTube video of the 2018 Golden Globes on NBC. There are so many ways to be angry at Trump, and his minions, and Congressional Republicans who enable the horror that plays out daily on the news. A new offense every damn day! I spent 2017 repelled and transfixed in unison.
- ["Small Mouth Sounds" at The Broad—A Review](https://thetvolution.com/2018/01/small-mouth-sounds-at-the-broad-a-review/) - By Ernest Kearney — Premise-wise "Small Mouth Sounds," by Playwright Bess Wohl, has a lot of potential. The highly touted New York production, directed by Rachel Chavkin, centers around six lost souls who gather at a retreat offered by a bestselling life counselor for a week of mentoring, cleansing, contemplation and personal illumination. Unfortunately, even with such solid framing, this newest rendering¸ currently on stage at The Broad in Santa Monica, comes up lacking.
- [Los Angeles Theatre —The Best of 2017](https://thetvolution.com/2018/01/los-angeles-theatre-the-best-of-2017/) - There are identifiable years in the history of this nation that are shrouded in a foreboding of dire times ahead; 1860, 1877, 1914, 1918, 1929, 1941, 1963, 1979 and 2001. Like others, around 65,844,954 others, I foresee 2017 will be firmly fixed in that grim roster. But let us set aside here, in this worst
- [The Theatre World, Overriding Abuse and the Court of Public Opinion](https://thetvolution.com/2016/11/the-theatre-world-overriding-abuse-and-the-court-of-public-opinion/) - For those of you unaware of the fire storm unleashed on Colin Mitchell, former editor of Bitter Lemons, L.A.’s ground zero for theatre criticism—and perhaps the city’s best scratching post for its artistic Kilkenny’s cats—here, briefly, is the tale. The Chicago Reader, the Windy City’s equivalent of the LA Weekly, came out with an expose
- ["Antony and Cleopatra, the Musical" — A Review](https://thetvolution.com/2017/12/antony-and-cleopatra-the-musical-a-review/) - by Ernest Kearney — 'Antony and Cleopatra' has it all — magnificent history, towering characters, stunning pageantry and poetry of the highest order — yet it is one of Shakespeare’s least produced plays
- [Coffee with my Cat, Please](https://thetvolution.com/2017/12/coffee-with-my-cat-please/) - Imagine a petting zoo where Caffè Latte is served. Or imagine you’re in the mood to find a cat to enhance your life when you accept an invite to have coffee and cakes at an acquaintance’s apartment. You go, and there you find the perfect cat. It curls in your lap. It purrs when you purr. It even shares your disinterest when the discussion turns to the last episode of "Project Runway."
- [Chromolume takes on “Pacific Overtures”](https://thetvolution.com/2017/12/chromolume-takes-on-pacific-overtures/) - The Chromolume Theatre at The Attic has been the site of some stunning successes, and while their current production of Steven Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures," playing through December 17, is not of similar rank, it is still a staging of note.
- [Unboxing History: A 1940s Monopoly Throwback](https://thetvolution.com/2017/11/unboxing-history-a-1940s-monopoly-throwback/) - by Darwyn Carson — Monopoly, I would wager, was always one of the first go-to games of choice amongst friends and family members. Contributor Ernest Kearney turned me on to this video by Filmmaker, Video-Blogger and Monopoly Lover, Austin McConnell.
- [IAMA Presents 'Redline' by Christian Durso](https://thetvolution.com/2017/11/iama-presents-redline-by-christian-durso/) - by Ernest Kearney — Forgiveness seems to be the theme of “Redline,” now playing in rep with “Sinner’s Laundry” at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. The Christian Durso two-character drama is premiering as part of IAMA Theatre Company’s tenth anniversary season celebration.
- ['Sinner's Laundry' — Is a Dream Just a Dream?](https://thetvolution.com/2017/10/sinners-laundry-is-a-dream-just-a-dream/) - by Ernest Kearney — IAMA Theatre Company’s production, "Sinner’s Laundry," at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood, can be summed up simply as "Orange is the New No Exit."
- ['Feathers of Fire – A Persian Epic' Which Should not to be Missed](https://thetvolution.com/2017/10/feathers-of-fire-a-persian-epic-which-should-not-to-be-missed/) - Hamid Rahmanian is a film maker and graphic artist who in 2013 undertook to illustrate the Shahnameh. He has now transformed part of that effort to the stage as 'Feathers of Fire – A Persian Epic,' a stunningly beautiful evening of lights, shadows and theatrical magic, in its final week at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
- [In 'This Land' — Does L.A. Need Historical Examination?](https://thetvolution.com/2017/10/in-this-land-does-l-a-need-historical-examination/) - by Ernest Kearney — In "This Land," at The Company of Angels, playwright Evangeline Ordaz, uses a parcel of earth to structure a breathtakingly ambitious history of this city and its people that stretches over a century and a half.
- [‘Bright Star’ — Embracing all that Glitters](https://thetvolution.com/2017/10/bright-star-embracing-all-that-glitters/) - by Ernest Kearney — "Bright Star," currently on stage at the Ahmanson Theatre, is the epitome of what the Broadway stage does to perfection. It is a huge, radiant, exquisitely produced and performed crowd-pleaser, guaranteed to delight busloads of tourists visiting from Kansas.
- [Jennie Fahn’s ‘Under the Jello Mold’—Perfectly Set, Firm to the Touch](https://thetvolution.com/2017/10/jennie-fahns-under-the-jello-mold-perfectly-set-firm-to-the-touch/) - by Ernest Kearney “My mother didn’t wear sneakers,” Fahn proclaims at the opening of her one-woman show, Under the Jello Mold, on-stage thru November 4 at The Whitefire in Sherman Oaks
- ['The Source' at the REDCAT](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/the-source-at-the-redcat/) - You enter the REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CaLArts Theater) to find a mass of chairs arranged seemingly haphazard in the center of the room. Running the length on the upper half of the surrounding walls are four screens...
- [The Fools on the Hill](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/the-fools-on-the-hill/) - Above: July 18, 2017 MSNBC screen grab. At you thought he couldn’t look stupider! Let’s be truthful about the reason that Republicans can’t come up with a viable replacement for Obamacare: they never wanted or planned to replace it. “Replace” was always lip service—and nothing more. Mulch McConnell’s whiny “It’s over” speech last Thursday night
- [Ozark — Jason Bateman Tackles Noir](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/ozark-jason-bateman-tackles-noir/) - Netflix is shooting out product faster than the bullet train. The Jason Bateman starrer, "Ozark," streaming now, is sprinting toward the front of the pack.
- [Statues In Perpetuity? That is the Question](https://thetvolution.com/2017/08/statues-in-perpetuity-that-is-the-question/) - I’m a big mouth white guy of Irish descent who, most likely, has ancestral ties to former President Barrack Obama, and that statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, and those statues of Jefferson Davis and P. G. T. Beauregard in New Orleans; they all belong to me.
- [Final Weekend for ICT's "Silent Sky"](https://thetvolution.com/2017/09/final-weekend-for-icts-silent-sky/) - "Silent Sky" in its final weekend at Long Beach's International City Theatre, is a well-crafted feel-good evening in the theatre. If playwright Lauren Gunderson had decided to draw on Scottish history for her play then we may have wound up with a sweet love story about that...
- [Vargas Unravels the Espíritu Humano in La Razón Blindada](https://thetvolution.com/2017/09/vargas-unravels-the-espiritu-humano-in-la-razon-blindada/) - "La Razón Blindada," by Argentinean playwright Aristides Vargas, achieves many things on stage; it is disturbing and insightful, but more than anything else, it is staggeringly funny. Currently running at the 24th Street Theatre in Los Angeles...
- [Kneeling for Justice](https://thetvolution.com/2017/09/kneeling-for-justice/) - By Steve Schlich — A lot of people think of our president as a divider, but last weekend he did a frightfully good job of uniting much of professional sports against him. Following his criticism of football player protests in general and Colin Kaepernick in particular, a significant portion of the NFL protested back at him. NBA and MLB players, too. In the NFL, players and coaches—and even owners!
- ["The American Astronaut"](https://thetvolution.com/2017/09/the-american-astronaut/) - by Ernest Kearney — I do have a soft spot for weird sci-fi flicks - The History of Future Folk (2013), John Carpenter’s Dark Star (1974), Morons from Outer Space (1985), Spaced Invaders (1990), and Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988). So Cory McAbee’s American Astronaut (2001) was tailor made for me. Now, how best
- [Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino's in Special Engagement at The Whitefire](https://thetvolution.com/2017/10/bono-and-the-edge-waiting-for-godominos-in-special-engagement-at-the-whitefire/) - by Ernest Kearney - Richard Lucas' award-winning "Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino's," has been remounted and is running for a limited time at The Whirefire Theater in Sherman Oaks.
- ['Runaway Home' at The Fountain Theatre Begs the Question](https://thetvolution.com/2017/10/runaway-home-at-the-fountain-theatre-begs-the-question/) - By Ernest Kearney — The Fountain Theatre's production of "Runaway Home" by playwright Jeremy J. Kamps, is a cannonade of language that comes at the audience like canister shot.
- [Dotard vs. Rocket Man, and Other Feuds ](https://thetvolution.com/2017/10/dotard-vs-rocket-man-and-other-feuds/) - Loser! The Tweet Defeat of Donald Trump did not begin with “Liddle’ Bob Corker” and his oh-so-devastating viral tweet: https://twitter.com/SenBobCorker/status/917045348820049920? Wham! Impressive. But first blood was drawn by a cruder, pudgier authoritarian with bigger Daddy issues than our president. And it came in a classically Trumpian confrontation: With a single mighty tweet, The Donald tagged
- [The Second Coming of Klaus Kinski Remounted at The Blank's Second Stage](https://thetvolution.com/2017/10/the-second-coming-of-klaus-kinski-remounted-at-the-blanks-second-stage/) - by Ernest Kearney — Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) was celebrated for his talent and disparaged for the madness that served as its foundation. Today he is best remembered for his collaborations with director Werner Herzog in films like Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) and Fitzcarraldo (1982), and for the recent charges of sexual abuse coming from his daughters Pola
- [BBC America’s "Blue Planet II" Trailer: The Prequel](https://thetvolution.com/2017/09/bbc-americas-blue-planet-ii-trailer-the-prequel/) - Some of the most jaw dropping, chill raising, and yes tear inducing, imagery ever shot makes up BBC America’s prequel to its new natural history series Planet Earth: Blue Planet II. A docu-series, that based on the look and sound of it, is not to be missed. Further enhanced by the music of composer/artists Hans
- [What's in Store for "Grey Nomad" is All Good...](https://thetvolution.com/2017/09/whats-in-store-for-grey-nomads-is-all-good/) - by Ernest Kearney — The Australian Theatre Company's "Grey Nomad" by Dan Lee is the tale of Helen (Ros Gentle) and her husband Jim (David Ross Paterson) who have set off in their caravan to explore the Never Never (Outback) of Oz (Australia).
- [Guns Don’t Kill, Culture Does](https://thetvolution.com/2017/08/guns-dont-kill-culture-does-2/) - Above: The car used as a murder weapon in Charlottesville. This freeze-frame photo is in the Public Domain. “…there are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has
- [Two More Weeks to Witness: "Émilie: La Marquise du Châtelet" Defend her Life](https://thetvolution.com/2017/09/two-more-weeks-to-witness-emilie-la-marquise-du-chatelet-defend-her-life/) - The Coeurage Theatre Company has a mission statement, startling in both brevity and boldness: “…to make impassioned theatre accessible for all audiences through Pay What You Want admission….” Over the years they have succeeded in…
- [Ashlee Olivia Presents E.A.R.T.H.A.](https://thetvolution.com/2017/08/ashlee-olivia-presents-e-a-r-t-h-a/) - In "Ashlee Olivia Presents E.A.R.T.H.A.," Ms. Jones delivers an exceptional performance of an exceptional performer...
- [Marcus J. Freed is Solomon: King, Poet & Lover](https://thetvolution.com/2017/08/marcus-j-freed-is-solomon-king-poet-lover/) - There have been a number of performances that will travel with me for quite some time during Hollywood Fringe 2017… a remarkably strong year for actors. And now I have a new name to add to that list: Marcus J. Freed in Solomon: "King, Poet & Lover."
- [Do Not Miss Out on "Jaques Brel" Alive in Los Angeles at The Odyssey](https://thetvolution.com/2017/08/do-not-miss-out-on-jaques-brel-alive-in-los-angeles-at-the-odyssey/) - It is surprising how a vocal style dating back before the 1500s can still strike one as so immediate. Such is the case with the Jaques Brel musical revue on now at the Odyssey Theatre.
- [We're Losing Another War](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/were-losing-another-war/) - Photo above is from Creative Commons: “hacker army 2.0” by Rodrigo Paoletti is licensed under CC BY 2.0
- [The Spidey Project — A Musical That Soars](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/the-spidey-project-a-musical-that-soars/) - "The Spidey Project" has been one of the most popular shows at Fringe 2017 and it’s easy to understand why after seeing the first class staging it received at Studio/Stage on Western Avenue. Understandably we’re not seeing the budget of a "Spiderman Hold Back the Darkness," which as I understand cost $2.43 more than the Invasion of Normandy.
- ["BLUE" — A Shade of a Different Color](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/blue-a-shade-of-a-different-color/) - "Blue," by filmmaker Charles Huddleston, is not a complex plot. It’s a pretty straightforward morality tale wrapped in the landscape and backwoods mores of Appalachian country and the “Mountain People” who reside “in them thar hills.”
- [Fun and Cathartic "Easy Targets"](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/fun-and-cathartic-easy-targets/) - Let us talk the lowest of high concept. Take the most obnoxious representatives of our society’s ills: A woman (Rebecca Larsen) obsessed with the entitlement her beauty bestows on her, A man (Albert Dayan) defending the privileged birthright of those fortunate enough to be born white males, A painfully annoying “artiste” (Tegan Ashton Cohan) performing her homage to the glory of...
- ["Salvation" and "Midnight, Texas" Save the World](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/salvation-and-midnight-texas-save-the-world/) - It opens with a real-life catastrophic event: a meteor the size of a small house hits a small town in Russia injuring a thousand people. How did this happen and how did we not see it, a news woman asks Neil deGrasse Tyson?
- ["The Sacred Beasts"—Chance Encounters of the Strange Kind](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/the-sacred-beasts-chance-encounters-of-the-strange-kind/) - In "The Sacred Beasts" for Hollywood Fringe 2017, writer/director Chris Wollman has mined a particularly rich vein of historical gold in the “Odd Coupling” of the most iconic of icons: Ernest Hemmingway and Orson Welles, a pair of larger than life figures who bore the substantial burden of their own egos
- [Nicaea—An Historical Tale Reviewed](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/nicaea-an-historical-tale-reviewed/) - I must admit an admiration for Tricia Aurand’s undertaking in "Nicaea." Not only does she present an historical tale, but one of a most singular topic; the First Council of Nicaea called by Constantine I in 325 AD.
- [Game of Thrones no Longer Coming](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/game-of-thrones-returns-july-16/) - Long-awaited "Game of Thrones'" Season Seven—winner of 12 Emmy's just last September, remember— is no longer coming. It's Here: July 16 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT). It arrives bearing gifts: new cast members, to fill in the holes left by all who died last season, in the forms of Jim Broadbent playing an archmaester, Tom Hopper who takes over the role of Dickon Tarly—Samwell...
- [Little Women — Casting Complete — Filming to Start](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/little-women-casting-complete-filming-to-start/) - We love Angela Lansbury. And PBS announced today, "She's ba-a-a-ck." Dame Lansbury with Michael Gambon will head the cast in a three-part adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, "Little Women."
- [What does Throne S-7 Trailer Truly Prepare us for...?](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/what-does-throne-s-7-trailer-truly-prepare-us-for/) - Forgive the projection, but are producer/writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss attempting to 1) let us down easy by forecasting a Stark child death? Or are those intrepid series’ creators 2) throwing in a switchback: A hint of “one wolf dying,” could actually mean...
- [Guns Don’t Kill, Culture Does](https://thetvolution.com/2017/07/guns-dont-kill-culture-does/) - Our culture shoots black men. Kills them. And our culture acquits their killers—if they are the police. This headline grabbed me and shook me, reading like too many that I have seen before: "Minnesota Officer Acquitted in Killing of Philando Castile."
- [ENSEMBLES OF GOLD at The Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/ensembles-of-gold-at-the-fringe/) - Now I’ve seen some truly remarkable acting at this year’s Fringe, but here are two amazing ensembles that stand out head over shoulders above most of the others.... NEVA On a stage, three actors await their director in a cold gloomy rehearsal room in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. The only set: a chair
- ["Sparrow" — (A Review)](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/sparrow-a-review/) - It is always a pity when a show falls through the cracks, and with 375 Fringe 2017 shows that is not an altogether uncommon occurrence. The Tempest Theatre production of "Sparrow" was unfortunately such a show.
- [“Office Beat” — A Winning Toe-Tapathon!](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/office-beat-a-winning-toe-tapathon/) - The last time the Tap Overload Company came to the Hollywood Fringe, my review of their show "Office Beat" was effusive, to the point of idolatry in gushing superlatives, and closed with my invitation to please return. Happily, for all they did!
- [TheTVolution 2017 Hollywood Fringe Awards…](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/thetvolution-2017-hollywood-fringe-awards/) - There are more individuals whose talents deserve some Note of Distinction this year, and we, at TheTVolution wish the privilege of acknowledging them...
- [Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous is Absolutely...](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/help-i-think-i-might-be-fabulous-is-absolutely/) - What "Help! I Might be Fabulous" presents is a modern fable by way of Stonewall and "La Cage aux Folles," in which Alfie stands as a testament that sequins alone do not make one “fabulous.”
- ["Triptych" Dives into the Deep End](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/triptych/) - All playwrights of any merit explore those vast and stretching abysses that form human relationships. In his earlier work, “The Size of Pike” and now in “Triptych,” writer Lee Wochner shows he prefers to delve into the most convoluted canyons to journey in reverse of their sources. … What he offers us is an opportunity to follow Harold Pinter down a rabbit hole, insisting to us that human relationships are never what we hope to find, but that the search can at least be fun.
- ["The King’s Language" — Extended at Sacred Fools, Second Stage](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/the-kings-language-extended-at-sacred-fools-second-stage/) - In “The King’s Language,” writer/director Chris Yejin, has presented the Fringe with an entertaining and intelligent little history lesson of King Sejong (1397 – 1450), who ruled Korea for 42 years. And like the 2005 Korean film "King and the Clown" and like "King Lear," in this work, wisdom is gained by listening to the “Fool.”
- ["Save Me a Spot" Extended at Asylum @ Studio C](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/save-me-a-spot-extended-at-asylum-studio-c/) - The tunes in "Save Me a Spot" were both charming and moving, and wisely limited to ten in number. The book, about a group waiting in line to buy tickets for a boy band reunion was clever and amusing, and cast members were solidly talented and well-voiced.
- ["Do You: Migration of the Monarchs" Opens the Floodgates to Enter the Mind](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/do-you-migration-of-the-monarchs-opens-the-floodgates-to-enter-the-mind/) - "Do You: Migration of the Monarchs" is a dazzling concept conveyed in a visually rich language, not a play as much as a pageantry of images, song and dance. At the center is director/performer/costume designer Yozmit Walker, whose ideas and concepts flood off the stage and awash the audience in style and color.
- [Kinsherf’s Coat — Still Time to Weigh In](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/kinsherfs-coat-still-time-to-weigh-in/) - "Kinsherf’s Coat" harkens back to one of the Sixties most lamentable losses – “The Happening," which was was an indiscernible event that even survivors of the “Love Generation” found difficult to define; though they all claimed to recognize one when it “happened.”
- ["Shakeslesque (To Thine Own Cherry Be True)" (A Review)](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/shakeslesque-to-thine-own-cherry-be-true-a-review/) - "Shakeslesque" is a playfully amusing blend of Bard and boobs; a racy, randy raucous romp in which the buxom babes of Cherry Poppins Caburlesque join with some of the Fringes best known rascals.
- [The Medal Tally thus far at this Year's Fringe!](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/the-medal-tally-thus-far-at-this-years-fringe/) - Well, here we are at about the mid way point in the Fringe. So far 31 shows seen and 23 reviewed. For all things Fringe and a complete schedule of events and plays...
- [Hollywood Fringe Diary](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/hollywood-fringe-diary/) - The Hollywood Fringe Festival's Week One Diary—Part III is all about the Bard who is nicely represented this year with a number of works, these are a few that just struck my interest: MACDETH! From Great Britain, or as it’s known nowadays Britain, Ryan J-W Smith brings this skewing of the Scottish play, described
- [Adam Peck's "Bonnie & Clyde" (A Review)](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/adam-pecks-bonnie-clyde-a-review/) - Playwright Adam Peck's "Bonnie & Clyde" brushes aside the legendary elements of the Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow story, putting its focus instead on a far greater mystery; the dynamics of the human heart.
- ["The Fabulous Fables of Aesop" and "Infantryman in the Wardrobe" (The Reviews)](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/the-fabulous-fables-of-aesop-and-infantryman-in-the-wardrobe-the-reviews/) - ShoWorks Entertainment has traveled from South Africa to stage two offerings at the Fringe, both written by South African playwright Keith Galloway. While the works are different in tone and subject, I have combined the two here.
- ["Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement Of Henry VIII" — (A Review)](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/ladies-in-waiting-the-judgement-of-henry-viii-a-review/) - In James Cougar Canfield’s historical play Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement of Henry VIII the “ladies” in question are the six wives of that oft-wed king, and their “waiting” is as a kind of celestial court, in which they shall pass subject on their king, lover and in some cases murderer.
- ["Mungo!" An American Pastime During Fringetime!](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/mungo-an-american-pastime-during-fringetime/) - For those of you who are unschooled in America’s favorite pastime, Van Lingle Mungo was a Major League pitcher who played with the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1931 to 1941 and then with the New York Giants till the end of his career soon after the end of World War Two.
- ["Art and Abolition" from Atlanta to Africa](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/art-and-abolition-from-atlanta-to-africa/) - It is odd to admire the seed but fault the fruit. But Brittanie Richardson’s solo show "Art and Abolition" has placed me in such a position. There is nothing overly original in coming from an
- [Recalling Anthony the Great in "The Tomb"](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/recalling-anthony-the-great-in-the-tomb/) - "The Tomb" by Ed Sharrow (at the Complex Theatre during Fringe 2017) is an encapsulated tale of Anthony the Great, also called Anthony of Egypt, who was a 4th century Christian mystic.
- ["Andy: The Red-Nosed Warhola" Alive in La-La Land](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/andy-the-red-nosed-warhola-alive-in-la-la-land/) - In "Andy: The Red-Nosed Warhola," director/adapter Ezra Buzzington has crafted a swift, stylish and oh so entertaining rendering of the iconic persona of Andy Warhol. (Hollywood Fringe 2017)
- [How to Love Your Dictator: Olga & Ludmila’s Guide to Fascism](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/how-to-love-your-dictator-olga-ludmilas-guide-to-fascism/) - "How to Love Your Dictator: Olga & Ludmila’s Guide to Fascism" is an American broadcast of the popular Russian talk show (with Kate Rappoport and Andra Moldav as the hostess-chets).
- ["Mary's Medicine" The Journey of Mary Seacole](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/marys-medicine-the-journey-of-mary-seacole/) - From the first moments of "Mary’s Medicine," currently running at the Complex Theatres during Hollywood Fringe 2017, playwright/director Matthew Robinson takes a risk by stating we are about to be told a story so compelling ‘you would give up your parking spot.’ This is Los Angeles. Then the play proceeds to deliver.
- [Christopher Marlowe's "The Faggot King..." Reigns Supreme](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/christopher-marlowes-the-faggot-king-reigns-supreme/) - Director, Christopher Johnson is too clever by half, which is clearly demonstrated in his current Fringe offering: a raucous, genderbending, madcap rendering of Christopher Marlowe’s, "The Faggot King or The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second."
- ["Finally, Some Privacy" Aimee Levey’s One-Woman Show](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/finally-some-privacy-aimee-leveys-one-woman-show/) - Well, I suspected I was going to like "Finally, Some Privacy" Aimee Levey’s one woman show, for Fringe 2017, when I heard the singing of Jack Lukeman being used as pre-show music.
- ["Stringmates" Connect with Fringe Audiences](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/stringmates-connect-with-fringe-audiences/) - "Stringmates" by Amanda Noriko Newman takes its core concept from the Asian legend of the “Red String of Fate,” the belief that the gods bind two individuals who are destined to be together with an unbreakable red string that connects them no matter what distance separates them.
- [Running Amok in "Herpes: A Love Story"](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/running-amok-in-herpes-a-love-story/) - "Herpes: A Love Story," a show about the scourge of the sexual revolution, provides creator/performer Cherise Pascual with the opportunity of blitzing the audience like a miniature, methed—out Panzer tank…
- [An Evening With John Wilkes Booth — to Know the Man](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/an-evening-with-john-wilkes-booth-to-know-the-man/) - "An Evening With John Wilkes Booth" by Clinton Case and Lloyd J. Schwartz (who also directs), presents a solid and edifying portrait of the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
- [Nothing Bad – A Werewolf Rock Musical](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/nothing-bad-a-werewolf-rock-musical/) - "Nothing Bad – A Werewolf Rock Musical" has spun the 1987 vampire film, "The Lost Boys" by way of the 1971 musical hit "Grease," and for the first ten minutes seems to be making a success of it with composer and lyricist Daniel Sugimoto who provides some spiffy tunes that go towards generating the toe tapping bliss that every audience craves.
- [Incantesimo — The Mystery of Magic and Music](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/incantesimo-the-mystery-of-magic-and-music/) - Billed as an exploration of music and magic "Incantesimo" relies heavily on the ability of music to take us into a state of trance and at the heart of the show is a consummate showman, Riccardo Berdini.
- ["Chimera Bella"...? Not So Much...](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/chimera-bella-not-so-much/) - "Chimera Bella," with cinematography by James Delhauer, is described as “an acrobatic journey”; I saw little proof of either.
- [The Second Coming of Klaus Kinski—Brilliantly Demonic](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/the-second-coming-of-klaus-kinski-brilliantly-demonic/) - "The Second Coming of Klaus Kinski" writer, performer Andrew Perez presents Kinski and all his demons with such unnerving commitment that the stench of sulfur burns the eyes of the audience. It is not so much a portrayal by an actor as the actor’s possession by the character.
- ["Nights at the Algonquin Round Table" Steps It Up](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/nights-at-the-algonquin-round-table-steps-it-up/) - The personalities with whom playwright, Steven Vlasak populates “Nights at the Algonquin Round Table” are some the most acerbic wits, who carved up their targets with tongues sharpened daily on alcohol-soaked whetstones.
- [Is "Bono and the Edge: Waiting for Godomino's" Time Well Spent?](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/is-bono-and-the-edge-waiting-for-godominos-time-well-spent/) - "Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino's" by writer/director Richard Lucas approaches being the ultimate Hollywood Fringe Festival offering.
- ["Zombie Clown Trump: An Apocalyptic Musical"... Oh Well ...](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/zombie-clown-trump-an-apocalyptic-musical-oh-well/) - I wanted "Zombie Clown Trump" (Surprise! It's a musical), so badly, to be great. But if wishes were horses….
- ["Game of Thrones" Iceland/Spain Locations and Final Running Times](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/game-of-thrones-icelandspain-locations-and-final-running-times/) - Check out this "Game of Thrones" location video focusing on Iceland and Spain; just luscious...
- [The Disappearing Songwriter](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/the-disappearing-songwriter/) - Talk about being overly optimistic. My previous TheTVolution post seems positively Pollyanna-ish. The headline read: "The Voice Finally Acknowledges Songwriters." Actually, what the December finale managed to do was exactly the opposite – they erased songwriters altogether. We'll get back to The Voice shortly, but the plight of songwriters is once again front and center.
- [The Schism that is 'Fugue'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/the-schism-that-is-fugue/) - I hate writing "bad" reviews for shows. Hate it. Don't get me wrong, I will bring out the ol' file and start sharpening the teeth; I'll strip down, dye myself blue, and strap my enemies' heads around my waist when I come across some heavily backed, much lauded, poorly written, inauthentic, and totally fraudulent piece
- [EMPIRE – Episode 5](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/empire-episode-5/) - OMG Moments on Empire • An unexpected gift, a single red rose, is dropped at the entrance to Cookie's swank apartment and she goes into a high velocity tailspin that leads to unintended consequences of the worst kind. • While the rose is a key plot point in the episode 5 of Empire, Tiana's sultry
- [Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/eugene-oneills-anna-christie/) - In Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie the sea defines all things; the characters, their lives, their past, and their destinies. It is the sea that convinces Chris Christopherson to abandon his young daughter to what he believes will be a better life. For in the sea's vastness all he finds is the pain of his own
- [Porthos: A Musketeer with A Mixed Past](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/porthos-a-musketeer-with-a-mixed-past/) - "It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felt that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing." from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas In BBC America's version of The Three Musketeers, and not unlike the Alexandre Dumas serial, Porthos
- ['Empire' Strikes it Rich](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/empire-strikes-it-rich/) - When I first heard news of a weekly series set in hip hop and R&B music industry with a predominately African American cast, I thought "meh." Country has ABC's Nashville; now Hip Hop has Empire on FOX. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that was so wrong. With its slick and captivating pilot and
- ['Extant' — A Surprise Mystery Man](https://thetvolution.com/2015/01/extant-a-surprise-mystery-man/) - If The Honorable Woman was the bravest Freshman Drama of Summer 2014, Extant was the Most Surprising. Academy Award winner Halle Berry fully commits every time she takes on a new role. With her new mystery thriller she raised the bar on herself. Luminous as ever, the show rested square on her shoulders and she
- [The Americans: A Dream Role for Matthew Rhys](https://thetvolution.com/2015/01/the-americans-a-dream-role-for-matthew-rhys/) - If you're not excited about the return of Matthew Rhys on The Americans tonight on FX, then you haven't been watching. It's time to start. The Season 3 premiere begins at 10pm EST. The back story for those playing catch-up: Welsh born thesp Rhys with co-star Keri Russell portray Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, an attractive couple
- [The Musketeers: Their Secrets and Why We Love Them](https://thetvolution.com/2015/01/the-musketeers-their-secrets-and-why-we-love-them/) - Santiago Cabrera is Aramis. Though they are, the four of them, multilayered individuals, Aramis would seem to be the one full of the most curious contradictions as he is at once romantic and soulful. In Dumas' text, he is a spiritual, even religious man, so an infusion of astute conscious and soulfulness into this updated
- [The Musketeers: Their Secrets and Why We Love Them](https://thetvolution.com/2015/01/the-musketeers-their-secrets-and-why-we-love-them-2/) - Indeed, four men like them, four men devoted to each other from their money to their lives, four men always supporting each other, never retreating, performing singly or together the resolutions they had made in common; four arms threatening the four points of the compass or all turning to a single point, must inevitably, be
- [All is Lost—In Retrospect](https://thetvolution.com/2014/12/all-is-lost-in-retrospect/) - The film opens with a laconic, heart rendering simple and sincere shriving, "I'm sorry. I know that means little at this point, but I am." The voice, so familiar, so close to anyone who has ever set foot in a picture show or spent time with TV within spitting distance, the voice so American reels
- [Who’s the Mole in The Game?](https://thetvolution.com/2014/12/whos-the-mole-in-the-game/) - Just as we were about to yawn and say pass the potatoes please, three unique Points of Play in The Game, episodes three and four, snapped us upright into pay-attention mode. Episode Three: MI5 has learned of a pending Soviet attack on Britain from a defecting KGB agent. They know little save for the code
- [Worricker Times Three on PBS](https://thetvolution.com/2014/11/worricker-times-three-on-pbs/) - Whether a Bill Nighy fan or a David Hare follower, tune in to PBS, Masterpiece Contemporary, for Part II of The Worricker Trilogy. Turks & Caicos airs tonight at 9pm ET. Military intelligence operative Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) was introduced in the TV crime thriller, Page Eight in 2011, after it made quite a splash as
- [The Honorable Woman: The Summer's Bravest Freshman Show](https://thetvolution.com/2014/09/the-honorable-woman-the-summers-bravest-freshman-show/) - The Bravest Show of the Summer goes to: The Honorable Woman. Series creator Hugo Blick's masterful eye created a world of intrigue and switchbacks that entertained as well as provoked. With an exemplary cast of players, held together by the topnotch Maggie Gyllenhaal―always wonderful and here, never better―this political thriller kept us guessing... always. Gyllenhaal
- [How to Get Away with Murder and get 'As'](https://thetvolution.com/2014/09/how-to-get-away-with-murder-and-get-as/) - The main stage for How to Get Away With Murder is a university lecture hall full of bright, eager, first-year, first-day law students. Defense Attorney Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) is the brilliant Criminal Law Professor we all love to love and love to hate. Fairly bristling with a bravados that provokes both fear and respect
- [The First and Final Days as Poirot](https://thetvolution.com/2014/08/the-first-and-final-days-as-poirot/) - There were Poirots before him. There will be Poirots to follow. Right now, for over seven hundred and fifty million plus viewers who have watched the detective series since its debut in 1989, David Suchet is Poirot. Poirot is David Suchet. Moments following a screening of Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, at the Paley Center in
- [Why David Suchet Came So Close To Missing Out On Poirot](https://thetvolution.com/2014/07/why-david-suchet-came-so-close-to-missing-out-on-poirot/) - If not for a twist of fate and a bit of luck we might never have been witness to David Suchet as the titular character in the long running television series Agatha Christie's Poirot. It's true. Skilled actor (and my newest hero) Suchet, was in Los Angeles recently performing in the award winning play, The
- [Why 'The Strain' is an Elegant Virus](https://thetvolution.com/2014/07/why-the-strain-is-an-elegant-virus/) - "A Hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." Ralph Waldo Emerson In a sea crammed with vampire centric graphic novels, books, TV shows and films this one, The Strain, is not typical romanticized bloodsucking fare. It starts simple enough. Regis Air Flight
- [The Dark, Dank World of 'Penny Dreadful'](https://thetvolution.com/2014/05/the-dark-dank-world-of-penny-dreadful/) - Victorian era pulp fiction by another name could have been Penny Awful, Penny Number, Penny Blood or Penny Horrible. The name that caught was Penny Dreadful. It all added up to luridly explicit stories printed on pulp paper to be woven into cheaply bound booklets. Popular in the 19th century these stories played out over
- [From the Beginning - An Orphan Black Primer](https://thetvolution.com/2014/04/from-the-beginning-an-orphan-black-primer/) - Last year no one knew what to expect. The burning question was: "Who is Orphan Black?" This recap is for anyone who saw Orphan Black's virgin season and want a fast refresher and for anyone who's curious about the buzz surrounding the techno-thriller. So if a catch-up marathon event isn't in your future either, read
- [Are You Sherlocked?](https://thetvolution.com/2014/01/are-you-sherlocked/) - It's been nearly two years since The Reichenbach Fall and the deadly confrontation between Sherlock and his psycho-nemesis Moriarty, wherein our hero flung himself off the rooftop of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He lay dead in the streets. We all saw him. His only friend, John Watson saw him too and though we, the audience, were
- [Acorn TV Expands Streaming Service With 'Above Suspicion'](https://thetvolution.com/2014/01/acorn-tv-expands-streaming-service-with-above-suspicion/) - Good news here. Acorn Media Group, the first company to provide live streaming of the best in classic and contemporary British television, recently expanded the service, which launched in July of 2011 with a roster of six series and 40 hours of programming online at any given time. Now viewers have complete episodes of 10
- [Detectives North of the Border: Murdoch and Intelligence](https://thetvolution.com/2014/01/detectives-north-of-the-border-murdoch-and-intelligence/) - Not much delivers more joy than the reup of a favorite TV show. Case in point: The third season of one of my Canadian series is available through Acorn Media on Blu-ray and DVD. Based on Maureen Jennings' best selling detective novels, Murdoch Mysteries is a whole lot of fun; a turn-of-the-century forensics show with
- ["Secret Honor, The Last Testament of Richard M. Nixon" (a review)](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/secret-honor-the-last-testament-of-richard-m-nixon-a-review/) - "Secret Honor, The Last Testament of Richard M. Nixon" is a torrential tirade spewed by a scotch-soaked Richard M. Nixon, as he prepares to resign the presidency to avoid impeachment from his cover-up of the Watergate break-in.
- [Comic-Con the Musical — A Tune Too Far...?](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/comic-con-the-musical-a-tune-too-far/) - "Comic-Con The Musical" celebrates that Mecca of Nerd-dom, The San Diego Comic-Con International aka Comic-Con. Four magical days every summer filled with celebrity panels, Sci-Fi seminars, previews of wannabe blockbusters, video game tryouts, cos-play and small herds of pot-bellied Spidermans.
- ["Just Like Life" Refreshed or Just... ?](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/just-like-life-refreshed-or-just/) - Director/writer/set designer Donovan Glover won the 1991 UCLA Best-New-Play-of-the-Year Award for this work and at times "Just Like Life" certainly feels like the work of a neophyte – absurdist themes are the “training wheels” of choice for all greenhorn bards.
- [The Girl who Jumped off the Hollywood Sign—Final Fringe Show](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/the-girl-who-jumped-off-the-hollywood-sign-final-fringe-show/) - In "The Girl who Jumped off the Hollywood Sign" written and performed by Joanne Hartstone, under the direction of Vince Fusco, the audience joins a Peg Entwistle wannabe as she teeters precariously perched on the top of the Hollywood sign looking down at her impermanence and that of fame.
- [For a Moment Reimagined—"My Janis"](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/for-a-moment-reimagined-my-janis/) - "My Janis," at The New Collective during Fringe 2017, is not actually a play. It is a moment selected from the life of rock legend Janis Joplin and reimagined for an audience.
- ["The Brick" Soars Above the Waves](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/the-brick-fringe-2017/) - A man brings his guitar and a cooler out to the beach, and as he faces the setting sun tries to decide whether he can make peace with the ghost of his abusive mother or if his memories of her need to sink beneath the waves of the approaching tide. So begins "The Brick – A One Man Musical" written and performed by Bill Berry and directed by Kelly De Sarla.
- [The Show That Never Ends](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/the-show-that-never-ends/) - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends We're so glad you could attend Come inside! Come inside! There behind the glass stands a real blade of grass be careful as you pass Move along! Move along! Come inside, the show's about to start guaranteed to blow your head apart... —“Karn Evil 9”
- [Mistero Buffo Resurrected at the Fringe (2017)](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/mistero-buffo-resurrected-at-the-fringe-2017/) - Panos Vlahos, making his U.S. debut at Hollywood Fringe (2017) in “Mistero Buffo,” combed three pieces from the last half of author Dario Fo’s work in order to fashion his show and, in doing so, has chosen the most scandalous of the text.
- [William Shakespeare's Complete Works in 90 Minutes](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/william-shakespeares-complete-works-in-90-minutes/) - In the hands of the right actors "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare," by playwrights Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, is a juggernaut of mirth and mayhem. In this instance, the “right actors” would be: Paul Green, Jordan Merimee and Dorian Tayler.
- ["The Little Mermaid: A Movement Piece" Rocks the Boat](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/the-little-mermaid-a-movement-piece-rocks-the-boat/) - The Boundless Artists Theatre Company has presented Fringe audiences with a production of the fairy tale The Little Mermaid, which is unique in its faithfulness to the original 1837 version by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Here you’ll find all the dark and disturbing aspects lobotomized out of Andersen’s tale in the Disney’s Technicolor serving,
- ["Two M-F's on a Ledge" Sit Tall During Fringe 2017](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/two-m-fs-on-a-ledge-sit-tall-during-fringe-2017/) - In spite of a ferociously inappropriate title, "Two Motherfuckers on a Ledge," running at Asylum @ Studio C during the Fringe, is nevertheless a treat for those whose grey matter is still supple and functioning
- [Off the Beaten Pathé—'Train to Busan'](https://thetvolution.com/2017/05/off-the-beaten-pathe-train-to-busan/) - For the most part, Korean cinema has not rung the dong for me. I Saw the Devil (2010) Kim Jee-woon’s brutal and bloody psychological thriller gained, mostly, positive reviews after its premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, but I can’t honestly comment on this well-crafted and intelligent tale of sexual torture, cannibalism and revenge because
- [New Game of Thrones Season 7 Trailer! Yikes!](https://thetvolution.com/2017/05/new-game-of-thrones-season-7-trailer-yikes/) - Who's your favorite? Time to decide! My best guess as to who ends up on the high ground would be: Team Stark with Jon Snow at the helm, ultimately uniting with all the partnerships that make up Team Stormborn. Of course, Arya (Maisie Williams) plays a huge role in there somewhere. Just don't know if
- ['Robot Monster'—'50s Sci-Fi run Amok (Review)](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/robot-monster-50s-sci-fi-run-amok-review/) - As the nerdiest kid this side of the Rockies, I lived for the cheesy Sci-Fi that oozed out of the fifties like the blob outa a whiffle ball: "It Came from Outer Space," "This Island Earth," "The Crawling Eye." "Robot Monster," a musical at this year's Fringe, based on this childhood rapture, seemed a sure-fire contender…
- [In the Eye of the Tweet-storm](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/in-the-eye-of-the-tweet-storm/) - I expected President Drumpf to embarrass himself—and us by proxy—when he went abroad last month. He did not disappoint, so long as you’re a fan of dark humor. Consider DJT as the perfect poster boy for what I’ll call the neo-Ugly American: cutting in front of the Motenegrin Prime Minister, and then strutting in place for the
- [Allan Sherman Remembered at The Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/allan-sherman-remembered-at-the-fringe/) - Conceived, written and produced by Linden Waddell — who also performs, with Miller directing — Hello Again! The Songs of Allan Sherman is exactly what it states itself to be, “a musical romp featuring the genius of Allan Sherman’s parody lyrics.”
- ['Ascent' — Fuses Dance and Taiko at Fringe 2017](https://thetvolution.com/2017/06/ascent-fuses-dance-and-taiko-at-fringe-2017/) - "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. Its intention is to illuminate “the threats that aggressive masculinity plays on the psyche”; a noble goal
- [More Line-Up at Hollywood Fringe, 2017](https://thetvolution.com/2017/05/more-line-up-at-hollywood-fringe-2017/) - The Hollywood Fringe is in full-on fourth gear mode. Festival Director / Fringe Founder Ben Hill with his “crack team of Fringe shipmates” have made it very easy for you to better organize your festival journey. Go to www.hollywoodfringe.org to explore all of the events on tap for the month. Make sure to browse through the
- ['Witness for the Prosecution': A Classic Reborn on Acorn](https://thetvolution.com/2017/01/witness-for-the-prosecution-a-classic-reborn-on-acorn/) - Monday night, January 30, is Acorn TV night with the premiere of another Agatha Christie reinvention. Based on one of her short stories, Witness for the Prosecution is represented by an accomplished ensemble: Kim Cattrall as the moneyed and glamorous Emily French who draws a younger, easy on the eyes Leonard Vole (Billy Howle) into
- [Sherlock: To be or not to be](https://thetvolution.com/2017/01/sherlock-to-be-or-not-to-be/) - Whatever had you Sherlocked from Hello, one thing is not up for debate… we all want the duo back for a Season 5 go-round. It doesn't seem that long ago when we first welcomed the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson into our living rooms. With only
- [History as Farce: Rajiv Joseph’s ‘Archduke’ at the Taper](https://thetvolution.com/2017/05/history-as-farce-rajiv-josephs-archduke-at-the-taper/) - Under the direction of Giovanna Sardelli, solid performances command the stage, in a new work by Rajiv Joseph; author of the award winning "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" and "Guards at the Taj."
- [More Shows on Slate for Hollywood Fringe 2017](https://thetvolution.com/2017/05/more-shows-on-slate-for-hollywood-fringe-2017/) - 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, Ben Hill spent a few years gathering support to mount such an event in this city. The launch happened summer of 2010 with 130 shows. 2017 marks year seven with
- [Robey Theatre Company presents Clare Coss’ Dr. DuBois and Miss Ovington — A Review](https://thetvolution.com/2017/05/robey-theatre-company-presents-clare-coss-dr-dubois-and-miss-ovington-a-review/) - The Robey Theatre Company and Los Angeles Theatre Center have partnered for the staging of "Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington." Read the full review.
- ['Of Mice and Men'—A Review](https://thetvolution.com/2017/05/of-mice-and-men-a-review/) - Theatre Unleashed, who has employed a sense of intelligence and willingness to push the envelope over the ensuing years, now takes on Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.”
- [Here's She Comes Again!](https://thetvolution.com/2016/12/heres-she-comes-again/) - Well Hello Dolly! Without even needing a warm-up band or an opening act, the music starts, the lights come up, and there she is, center stage with her arms wide open, the country music legend herself, Ms. Dolly Parton.
- [The California Republic Secedes](https://thetvolution.com/2017/04/the-california-republic-secedes/) - …that’s the current liberal fantasy, and we can sweeten it even more by taking the rest of America’s “left coast” with us. Welcome to Ecotopia, baby—a dated, romantic, organic neverland. And like many works of fiction, not really do-able. But consider that in many ways, California departed from the rest of the United States years ago.
- ['Stepford Wives' and Fembots Explored](https://thetvolution.com/2017/04/stepford-wives-and-fembots-explored/) - As part of the Replacement Parts film and discussion series, the Velaslavasay Panorama will be host to a screening of the eerily dark, 1975 classic 'The Stepford Wives' starring Katharine Ross and Paula Prentiss.
- [Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017! Expect More...](https://thetvolution.com/2017/04/hollywood-fringe-festival-2017-expect-more/) - Starting June 1st and running throughout the entire month Hollywood Fringe 2017 will be offering up 356 shows; all vying for your attention. Tickets become available May 1, so now’s the time to start checking out the Fringe at hollywoodfringe.org/ to start making your plans.
- [Hollywood Fringe Diary](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/hollywood-fringe-diary-3/) - Well, the ninth of June, the official kick off for Hollywood Fringe 2016, is quickly approaching. Like some huge lumbering forest troll who will stride right over me and not even notice that glob of mashed playwright between its toes. I can best describe the sensation of having an impending show open to finding yourself
- [Choppy Waters on Display During LATC's 'The Cruise'](https://thetvolution.com/2017/04/choppy-waters-on-display-during-latcs-the-cruise/) - The Latino Theater Company offers up a first-class troupe for the world premiere of Jonathan Ceniceroz’s “The Cruise.”
- [Better Call Saul's Cast Speaks out on BUILD](https://thetvolution.com/2017/04/better-call-sauls-cast-speaks-out-on-build/) - Ready. Set. Time for more AMC’s Better Call Saul and Fargo (FX); among the most—if not the most—highly anticipated return of all spring dramas. Better Call Saul’s Season 3 premiere, dropping April 10, is perhaps as much awaited as its Freshman year. This is due, in large part, to Bob Odenkirk’s splendidly nuanced portrayal of
- [‘Punk Rock’: Teen Angst, Nihilism, Despair…](https://thetvolution.com/2017/04/punk-rock-teen-angst-nihilism-despair/) - In an isolated study room, set off in a forgotten wing of a cavernous comprehensive school tucked away in a working-class district of Britain, Tony Award-winning playwright and former teacher Simon Stephens deals out a tidy collection of “at-risk youths.”
- [Mein Kampf mit Drumpf](https://thetvolution.com/2017/01/mein-kampf-mit-drumpf/) - I’m sorry, but the Hitler analogy is at last appropriate. You can hear the original Führer’s hateful nationalism in nearly every sentence that comes out of Mr. Trump’s mouth, most especially in his inaugural speech. “I’m sorry, but…” is most often a non-apology that means exactly the opposite, as in “I’m not sorry at all.” But
- [But What Will Follow Doctor Who?](https://thetvolution.com/2017/04/but-what-will-follow-doctor-who/) - In 'Class' getting ready for Fall Prom is more than finding a pretty dress and matching corsage. (BBC America)
- [Life in the 'Elevator' playing at the Coast](https://thetvolution.com/2017/04/life-in-the-elevator-playing-at-the-coast/) - Playwright Michael Leoni’s characters connected with the audience to an intense degree, and yet
- [Albee's 'At Home at the Zoo' by Deaf West Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/2017/03/albees-at-home-at-the-zoo-by-deaf-west-theatre/) - Deaf West Theatre has produced some of the best theatre to come out of Los Angeles.
- [The Knick Season 1: Surgery 101](https://thetvolution.com/2014/10/the-knick-season-1-surgery-101/) - The TVolution declares 'The Knick' The Best Summer Freshman Drama (2014) Here the cast speaks on creating those intense and almost too life-like surgical sequences. The Knick, Season 1: Surgery 101. Only on Cinemax The Knick stars Clive Owen as the brilliant Dr. John Thackery and a stellar supporting cast; watch a new episode on Fridays.
- [Banshee - No Place Like it In America](https://thetvolution.com/2014/12/banshee-no-place-like-it-in-america/) - Heck... There's no place like it anywhere on the planet. There is enough blood, sex and mayhem happening to challenge the folks of Bon Temps, Louisiana. Those two towns could have a showdown. Which cinematic would you nominate as the bloodiest town in TV-dom? Banshee returns: Season 3 starts January 16 at 10pm Pacific only
- [Forever Flamenco presents  Manuel Gutierrez in 'Five'](https://thetvolution.com/2017/03/forever-flamenco-presents-manuel-gutierrez-in-five/) - 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 Ticket in Town.” One Sunday a month, the stage at the Fountain Theatre is scorched by world class artists, dancers and singers of one of the most exhilarating performance forms that
- [What happens in Vegas…](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/what-happens-in-vegas/) - At 100% full on energy the entire night, Garth Brooks IS the ultimate entertainer. From the moment he takes the stage, this man is shot out of a cannon! His high energy is super infectious and only works the already boisterous crowd further into a frenzy. The concert is not only visually stimulating with lights, smoke and huge screens capturing
- [You Have to See it to DISbelieve it](https://thetvolution.com/2017/03/you-have-to-see-it-to-disbelieve-it/) - This production has it all. 'Kurios – Cabinet of Curiosities' is running now through March 26 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. Comedy, romance and drama weave their way throughout the night leaving you both exhilarated and in a dreamlike state.
- [Covering 'The Hunger Games: MockingJay—Part 2' Movie Premiere](https://thetvolution.com/2015/11/covering-the-hunger-games-mockingjay-part-2-movie-premiere/) - Take a sneak peak at my experience on the red carpet for the Los Angeles, California movie premiere of The Hunger Games: MockingJay—Part 2. Support the Voices of The TVolution. Please Like us on Facebook and Subscribe.
- [Not Man Apart Confronts 'Paradise Lost'](https://thetvolution.com/2017/03/not-man-apart-confronts-paradise-lost/) - The Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble never fails to deliver. "Ajax in Iraq," "The SuperHero and his Charming Wife," and their other stagings have displayed a wonderful theatricality and have provoked thought and discussion in their audiences.
- [Garth Brooks at BB&T Center](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/garth-brooks-at-bbt-center/) - Do you know his favorite Karaoke song? I do. And he sings it with me. The man, the legend talks to me before his concert opening night at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida.
- [Brian DeMarco](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/musical-notes/) - Biography to come. In the meantime, enjoy music to the max!
- [David Nairne](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/david-nairne/) - David Nairne bio to come. In the meantime follow him @dnairne0.
- [Lisa Pirro](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/lisa-pirro/) - Lisa Pirro is a seasoned entertainer with diverse experience including on-camera hosting, segment producer, segment editor, feature writer, radio personality, voiceover, sketch comedy, song writer and record producer. As a freelance video journalist, she understands the importance of being current, staying ahead of the trends and reporting from a unique perspective; breaking the mold of
- [C.J. Keavney](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/c-j-keavney/) - C.J. Keavney has been creating stories since childhood in a small North Georgia town near Atlanta. She began writing stories in grade school about super hero girls and women that she also illustrated. After earning a journalism degree from the University of Georgia, C.J. worked as a reporter, editor, columnist and freelance writer. In addition
- [Darwyn Carson](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/darwyn-carson/) - Darwyn Carson's run as Managing Editor for Leonard Maltin's Annual Movie Guide ended in her sixth year when the guide's forty-five year run came to a close with the 2015 edition. Darwyn pulled double duty as Managing and Television Editor for Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy website from 2010 to 2016. Arriving in Los Angeles with an Arts and
- [The Voice of Jack Lukeman Creates 'Magic Days'](https://thetvolution.com/2017/03/the-voice-of-jack-lukeman-brings-us-magic-days/) - Jack Lukeman has a voice that feels like a friend’s hand on a troubled shoulder. From his 1995 debut album — Wax, performing as Jack L with the band The Black Romantics — his opulent voice has enticed admirers like a porch light attracts Southern Emerald and Hummingbird Moths on hot Mississippi nights. Over the
- [Resistance is Not Futile](https://thetvolution.com/2017/03/resistance-is-not-futile/) - A lot of us who respect Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House want to curl up and hibernate for the next four years. Please, let it just be four!
- ['Disinherit the Wind' a Scientific Dramatization](https://thetvolution.com/2017/03/disinherit-the-wind-a-scientific-dramatization/) - Matt Chait’s Disinherit the Wind opens quite nicely, with a depiction of Bertram Cates (Chait), a neurobiologist giving a lecture on DNA before his college class. Those few enjoyable minutes, unfortunately, roll into three hours of intellectually flawed arguments, eschewed logic, cardboard characters, woeful misinterpretations of facts and a rehashing of the standard assaults on
- [Odyssey Theatre's Koan Unit Presents: 'Beckett 5'](https://thetvolution.com/2017/02/odyssey-theatres-koan-unit-presents-beckett-5/) - Whether you view the later works of Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett as avant-grade, Theatre of the Absurd, tragicomic minimalism or a dramatic con job, they do provide an intriguing Rorschach experience for any audience. The Odyssey Theatre’s Koan Unit created an evening aptly enough entitled, Beckett5 that opened with four of Beckett’s shorter
- [Songstress Migenes and 'Debussy: His Letters and His Music' at the Odyssey](https://thetvolution.com/2017/02/songstress-migenes-and-debussy-his-letters-and-his-music-at-the-odyssey/) - 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 Roof playing opposite the legendary Zero Mostel. She sang in La Bohème. Mahagonny and other classics at the Metropolitan Opera, and starred in the film Carmen by Francesco Rosi, with
- [Presenting NoHo Arts District's Theatre Unlimited](https://thetvolution.com/2017/02/presenting-noho-arts-districts-theatre-unlimited/) - You’re in Los Angeles and looking for the perfect space to mount your production. Available for your play, meeting, workshop or social event is TU Studios (Theatre Unlimited), in the NoHo Arts District. North Hollywood’s NoHo Arts District (a play off New York’s famous SoHo Arts District) is alight with small theatre, eclectic boutiques, an
- [Frank Wills: Lost American](https://thetvolution.com/2017/02/frank-wills-a-lost-american/) - With Black History Month you hear accounts of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Cyrus Attucks and other historical black figures in America’s past. I would like to call attention to another hero of our past, but this one is a “Lost American.” FRANK WILLS: A Lost American In June of 1972 Frank Wills, a 24-year-old
- ['Bob Roberts' is Off the Beaten Pathé](https://thetvolution.com/2017/02/bob-roberts-is-off-the-beaten-pathe/) - What does this all mean? A flashy, vulgar celebrity/businessman runs for public office with no prior experience except having run a beauty pageant. His sound bites are laced with sexual innuendos and veiled racism. He finds popularity by attacking the media as dishonest and by spewing empty platitudes like, “Vote for me and I’ll bring
- [The Magic of Misdirection](https://thetvolution.com/2017/02/the-magic-of-misdirection/) - Even the best magicians never actually do magic—they give you a believable illusion that they are performing the impossible. Mostly, they do it by misdirection. After a literal or figurative “look over here!” …your attention jumps to the waving hand, or the flashing light, or the sound… while the real action is going on where
- ['Moby Dick' — A Robust Reimagining at South Coast Rep](https://thetvolution.com/2017/02/moby-dick-a-robust-reimagining-at-south-coast-rep/) - Going into South Coast Repertory’s production of adapter/director David Catlin’s Moby Dick, based on the novel by Herman Melville, I immediately encountered a red flag in the program notes by Kat Zukatis with the opening line: “Let’s all agree: Moby-Dick is a terrible novel.” My lovely wife Marlene and I quickly agreed that we didn’t
- [Worst TV Shows Ever — Part II](https://thetvolution.com/2017/01/worst-tv-shows-ever-part-ii/) - What strikes one—when inspecting television’s hugest failures—is the large percentage of those which are remakes and retooling’s. Now with the right amount or effort applied, with minimal intelligence and imagination, “Derivation” cleans up like Cinderella bound for the ball. Comb its hair, tell it to stand up straight and keep its fingers from exploring its
- [Jacques Vergès—A Study in  'Terror's Adovcate'](https://thetvolution.com/2017/01/jacques-verges-a-study-in-terrors-adovcate/) - The Algerian War, 1954-1962 is a struggle, all but, forgotten today in the West. For brutality, employment of terrorism, and the pitting of Muslim against European interests, on the surface, it seems painfully familiar. But it was so much more. Algeria was “French” to France, and was “France” to the French whose presence had a
- [Musketeers—The Story So Far](https://thetvolution.com/2015/01/musketeers-the-story-so-far/) - A recap of The Musketeers — Season One. Season Two begins January 17, 9/8c only on BBC America.
- [From a Slasher Flick to Film Noir](https://thetvolution.com/2017/01/from-a-slasher-flick-to-film-noir/) - Let’s say you’re a hotshot movie producer and I’m this schlub of a writer who thinks he’s bringing the next blockbuster to our meeting. I’m pitching you A Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue, which has Freddie Kruger invading the nation’s capitol. Of course you guessed it—a clever metaphor! The pitch: this puffy orange grinch drops out of
- [Coming to a Theater Near You—'Sherlock: The Final Problem'](https://thetvolution.com/2017/01/coming-to-a-theater-near-you-sherlock-the-final-problem/) - With the return of Sherlock premiering on New Year’s Day, this past week, BBC Worldwide and Fathom Events will present the Season 4 finale in movie theaters across North America for two nights only: Monday, January 16 and Wednesday, January 18, 2017. Following what’s promised as a “thrilling, not-to-miss season finale” will be 15 minutes
- [In Plain Sight: The Hidden Treasures of Los Angeles – Part II](https://thetvolution.com/2016/07/in-plain-sight-the-hidden-treasures-of-los-angeles-part-ii/) - At the top of where the Angel’s Flight Trolley once deposited its riders (and hopefully will again one day), nestled between a pair of impressive skyscrapers, you’ll find the California Plaza and one of L.A.’s best kept secrets, the Water Court. An artfully designed combination of ponds, and water fountains that are visually striking during
- [The Reality of Fake News](https://thetvolution.com/2017/01/the-reality-of-fake-news/) - Back in the days of the Soviet Union, there were two official newspapers: Pravda (“The Truth”) and Izvestiya (“The News”). A friend of mine who grew up in Russia during those times told me of the cynical saying, “Pravda nye Izvestiya, Izvestiya nye Pravda” …in English: “The Truth is not The News, and The News is
- [Take Those Polls and Shove ‘Em](https://thetvolution.com/2016/11/take-those-polls-and-shove-em/) - Start in a state with an active electorate of six million (say, Pennsylvania in 2016). Now poll a thousand of those people. You are allowing each respondent to represent six thousand people. That’s a big opportunity for skewed results, well beyond the so-called “margin of error.” So pollsters weight their results, based on the polled
- [Lock ‘Em Up!](https://thetvolution.com/2016/11/lock-em-up/) - The American election season never ends with the election. Not anymore. Nailing the president-elect for reneging on his second-biggest campaign promise became the national sport overnight …for the Red Team. And the rest of us? We’re still here, and we’re not going down without a fight. In the fortnight following the vote, Jill Stein raised
- [New Show: The Political Apprentice](https://thetvolution.com/2016/12/new-show-the-political-apprentice/) - We just elected a man with zero experience in government, primarily because he has no experience. That’s especially scary considering that “we” is a real stretch: Trump lost the popular vote by over 2.5 million as of this writing. It’s the same “we” that keeps cropping up when we consider the stupid things that “we”
- [How to Cheat Democracy](https://thetvolution.com/2016/12/how-to-cheat-democracy/) - Round One has begun, a first clang! in the bruising prize fight that Donald Trump’s presidency threatens to become. It’s The Donald vs. the CIA and a bipartisan bunch of lawmakers. And it’s about whether or not Russian hackers attempted to help Trump win. What do you think he’s gonna say? As a child of
- [The Best 2016 L.A. Theatre Productions](https://thetvolution.com/2017/01/the-best-2016-l-a-theatre-productions/) - You need valleys. Without valleys how can you appreciate the heights of hills? For me 2016 was a valley, 2014 and 2015 both hills. That’s not to say 2016 lacked stand-out productions and performances, however, they were fewer and farther between. So without much rhyme, but packing plenty of reason, here are my picks for
- [Let’s Watch More this New Year’s Weekend—Part I](https://thetvolution.com/2016/12/lets-watch-more-this-new-years-weekend-part-i/) - There are plenty o' football games variety and specials to eyeball on this weekend of final holiday visitations, but there are also plenty of alternate viewing options, (aside from the obvious Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead or Scandal, etcetera) to take advantage of. For this is officially the Holiday Marathon Viewing Season. I speak
- [A Cornucopia of Deplorables](https://thetvolution.com/2016/12/a-cornucopia-of-deplorables/) - Wait, don’t put away the Christmas decorations just yet. I’ve got one more present for you—and you’re gonna to hate it. Most of Donald Trump’s proposed cabinet and advisors are either inexperienced at government or opposed to the actual function that they would oversee—and usually, both. The unqualified part goes without saying: Trump favors people
- [L.A.’s PRO-99 Theatre Community Proclaims](https://thetvolution.com/2016/12/l-a-s-pro-99-theatre-community-proclaims/) - LOS ANGELES (Dec. 14. 2016) — Members of L.A.’s “PRO-99” theater community continue to gather signatures to demand a new referendum on Actors’ Equity's 99-Seat Theater Plan, which is scheduled to end today. Despite an overwhelming “No” vote by over 66% of the Los Angeles membership on a referendum put before it last April, the
- [Add 'The Fall' to Your Must-See List](https://thetvolution.com/2016/12/add-the-fall-to-your-must-see-list/) - The Fall: Season 2, on NETFLIX, got more personal and crossed more lines than could be handled by the Paris Metro system. Fair warning: Wide berthing spoilers as much as possible, I remain intentionally vague about Season 3’s jaw dropping specifics. That stated, if you haven’t yet seen Season’s 1 and 2, there are, indeed, a
- [Hansel and Gretel Bluegrass extended thru March 26](https://thetvolution.com/2016/12/hansel-and-gretel-bluegrass-extended-thru-march-26/) - For those who have not cultivated an appreciation for the theatrical craft and are unaware of the merits and delights to be derived from the stage, there are certain theaters in Los Angeles that I always try to persuade them to attend. Theaters whose productions can sometimes allow the novice to experience the wonders illuminated
- [Who's Who in Orphan Black's World](https://thetvolution.com/2014/03/whos-who-in-orphan-blacks-world/) - The Clone's world has expanded... to include the Brothers from the Castor Project. Mark Rollins is the first we meet.
- [The Many Faces of Orphan Black, The First Season](https://thetvolution.com/2014/03/the-many-faces-of-orphan-black-the-first-season/) - Sarah Manning is the key. She is brave, brash and ballsy. It’s one or a combination of these traits that come to her aid when she is being threatened. She is like her sisters and unlike them in that she has had a child.
- [Key Players in the World infected with ‘The Strain’](https://thetvolution.com/2014/06/key-players-in-the-world-infected-with-the-strain/) - Unlikely heroes unite against an unknown making its way through the underground of New York and perhaps...
- [How To Get Away With Murder](https://thetvolution.com/2014/09/how-to-get-away-with-murder/) - Let the Games Begin in How To Get Away With Murder
- [Worricker: Salting the Battlefield](https://thetvolution.com/2014/12/worricker-salting-the-battlefield/) - Star Bill Nighy and writer/director David Hare on the character evolution of Johnny Worricker, his true intentions, and where he stands at the saga's conclusion. Worricker: Salting the Battlefield is available to stream for free, for a limited time. #MasterpiecePBS Salting the Battlefield is Part three of The Worricker Trilogy, following Page Eight and Turks &
- [Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.](https://thetvolution.com/2016/09/marvels-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d/) - ...
- [What (A)partment 8 and The Truth Have in Common](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/what-apartment-8-and-the-truth-have-in-common/) - Hollywood Fringe 2016 is bubbling over with choices. Here we have two shows that share common ground and perhaps even a common philosophy. And represent an element that needs more representation in this festival of ours.... (A)PARTMENT 8 One thing I appreciated about (A)partment 8 is that it was indeed the fringiest of the Fringe.
- [The Walking Dead, Season 5 - Part II](https://thetvolution.com/2014/10/the-walking-dead-season-5-part-ii/) - What do the New Players Bring to the Game?
- [WELCOME TO THE TVOLUTION...](https://thetvolution.com/2014/05/welcome-to-the-tvolution/) - Providing unique insights on Arts and Entertainment and Politics of the Day: Film, Theater, Television series, TV specials and Social Commentary is what we follow here at The TVolution. Be it commercial, cable, streaming, or on demand, we don't cover everything, but what we do cover is "choice." Check in from time to time or
- [Latino Theater Company Presents Award-Winning Trilogy: 'Faith', 'Hope' and 'Charity'](https://thetvolution.com/2016/09/latino-theater-company-presents-award-winning-trilogy-faith-hope-and-charity/) - A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story, a multi-award winning work by Evelina Fernández is fiercely ambitious, thoroughly and intelligently mounted on a slick two tiered set by Francois-Pierre Couture, artistically lit by Pablo Santiago, surfeit of great singing and talented actors such as Robert Beltran, Sal Lopez and Ella Saldaňa North and no doubt will
- [Why Hamilton is Historic](https://thetvolution.com/2016/09/why-hamilton-is-historic/) - Thank goodness, we’re almost through the lull in Hamilton news. After the multi-week coverage of its record number of Tony nominations and many wins, we had extensive coverage on the early July departure of Lin-Manuel Miranda and others from the original cast just a few weeks after the Tony Awards were handed out. While there
- [Leon Russell: A Man and His Music](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/leon-russell-and-his-music-a-poem-is/) - Once upon a time there was born a brilliant musician. Leon Russell. A Poem Is A Naked Person gets close to touching his flame. This is what Criterion, who released has release this wonderful documentary, wrote: "Les Blank considered this free-form feature documentary about beloved singer-songwriter Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974, to be one
- [Jeanne McCafferty](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/jeanne-mccafferty/) - Jeanne McCafferty began writing and editing in the midst of her 25 year career in the music and video businesses. Three out of her four novels that were published in the U. S. and the U.K. between 1995 and 2001 are set in the music world, and her three mysteries Star Gazer, Artist Unknown, and
- [Steve Schlich](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/steve-schlich/) - Steve Schlich writes fiction about software: "easy to use," "does what you want"—lies like that—for the mortgage money. For his soul, he writes fiction and music. Hobbies include webmaster for www.RodSerling.com. In 2004, he created www.NakedWashington.com, a website chronicling the naughty public art in Washington, D.C. He lives happily with his wife and cats, north
- [Ernest Kearney](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/ernest-kearny/) - An award winning L.A. playwright and rabble-rouser of note who has hoisted glasses with Orson Welles, been arrested on three continents and once beat up Charlie Manson. In his early years of elementary school, Ernest Kearney escaped classes by writing and organizing little plays to take around to the various home rooms. But his grade
- [The People Speak](https://thetvolution.com/2014/12/an-off-the-beaten-pathe/) - Americans should watch this film, especially those who pride themselves, as I, patriotic Americans. Now honestly this is not an A-Plus movie; it's more like a B or B-Minus. Based on historian and activist, Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States, it suffers the same faults. Both speak out against the internment
- [Emmy Speech Master Class featuring Parker Posey](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/7693/) - Just for a bit of fun: Emmy Speech Master Class featuring Parker Posey Be sure to suscribe to the TV Academy's You Tube channel for more like this.
- [Orphan Black S 3 premiere](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/orphan-black-s-3-premiere/) - Welcome to Springtime TV Madness: Sarah Manning faces off against manic Castor Clone Rudy (Ari Millen) aka "Scarface." Watch "The Weight of this Combination," April 18th at 9pm ET - on BBC America Orphan Black Seasons 1 and 2 now available on DVD, Blu-ray and streaming 24/7 on Amazon Prime.
- [Twin Peaks Without David Lynch...?](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/twin-peaks-without-david-lynch/) - What do you think? Have your say HERE: #Savetwinpeaks14251
- [Sense8 Expands our Belief System](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/sense8-expands-our-belief-system/) - Check the trailer for Sense8 from the creative minds of the Wachowskis, Grant Hill and J. Michael Straczynski. Streaming everywhere Netflix June 5.
- [True Detective: Season 2 - You're Invited](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/true-detective-season-2-youre-invited/) - Can the lightening in the bottle that was the essence of the limited special event of True Detective, Season 1 be caught again? This from the Production Office: "A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes
- [Red Oaks - An Amazon Prime Comedy](https://thetvolution.com/2015/11/red-oaks-an-amazon-prime-comedy/) - Set in suburban New Jersey in 1985, Red Oaks centers around college student David Meyers—a young man at a crossroads as he tries to figure out who he is.
- [Dark Reel—On DVD (A Review)](https://thetvolution.com/2014/10/dark-reel-on-dvd-a-review/) - Think of a row of dominos as scenes in a film. The first domino strikes the one before it; the impact launches a second tile into a third, and so on. In the fall of a single domino you have dramas essence, in the striking of two you have conflict, and in the tiles arrangement
- [Billy Childs Takes On The Music Legacy of Laura Nyro](https://thetvolution.com/2014/10/billy-childs-takes-on-the-music-legacy-of-laura-nyro/) - In his latest recorded musical venture, Grammy-winning jazz pianist Billy Childs takes on the music legacy of Laura Nyro–and the result is an impressive, wide-ranging musical tribute to the work of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter. When Childs was only 11-years-old, his older sister introduced him to the work of Laura Nyro.
- [The Story of Will Rogers](https://thetvolution.com/2014/11/the-story-of-will-rogers/) - There have been three truly great social humorists in American history, Mark Twain, Will Rogers and Jon Stewart. The least known today is the guy bookended by the other two. Now I was sorta disappointed that this documentary was as old as it was (1961) and to find Bob Hope narrating, but after watching a
- [Walking Dead, Season Five](https://thetvolution.com/2014/10/walking-dead-season-five/) - Walking Dead, Season Five
- [Mohamed Atta and the Venus Flying Circus](https://thetvolution.com/2014/02/mohamed-atta-and-the-venus-flying-circus/) - Wow! What a remarkably haphazard and poorly structured thesis to use as the foundation for a documentary! A more insipid, puerile, substandard, shoddy and asinine effort you'd be hard pressed to find. What are some of its sins? Well for starter it contains logical inconsistencies and nonsequiturs a-go-go, rampant "cherry picking" and tons of "meaningless
- [A Haunted House 2 (movie)](https://thetvolution.com/2014/09/a-haunted-house-2-movie/) - What can be said about A Haunted House 2? My, it is rare to see such a testament to mediocrity. Not funny, unless you're an eighteen year old 'dude' sitting on a couch in your folk's basement stoned out of your mind. Hmmmm. I take it back. It wouldn't be funny even then. Director Michael
- [I'm No Dummy—A Documentary](https://thetvolution.com/2014/10/im-no-dummy-a-documentary/) - This is a lovely little documentary about the history of American ventriloquism over the last 70 years. While not comprehensive nor scholarly it is genuine and heartfelt. If you're a fan of Jeff Dunham then you should enjoy this little examination, but if the only ventriloquist you know of is Dunham, then do yourself a
- [Deadline—A Documentary](https://thetvolution.com/2014/10/deadline-a-documentary/) - In deciding to watch this documentary it doesn't matters greatly if you support capital punishment or oppose it. This is a fairly balanced analysis of the death penalty in America with arguments and testimonies more representative of the two sides overall than, generally, you find in debates of this issue. Yes, there is an editorial
- [The Voice Recognizes Songwriters](https://thetvolution.com/2014/12/the-voice-recognizes-songwriters-2/) - I'm a huge fan of The Voice, let me say that to begin. The elements of the blind auditions that start each season – the coaches listening to the contestants with their backs turned, the dramatic button pushes that swing the chairs around and the words 'I Want You' in lights – are all fabulously
- [Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall](https://thetvolution.com/2014/12/adolf-hitler-my-part-in-his-downfall/) - Well if you don't know Spike Milligan you darn well should. Along with Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, and Peter Sellers, Milligan wrote and performed in the BBC seminal radio show The Goon Show which fostered Beyond The Fringe, Cook and Moore and of course Monty Python. Milligan is pretty much universally acknowledged The Father of
- [A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night](https://thetvolution.com/2014/12/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night/) - Ana Lily Amirpour's intelligent and superbly crafted film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is definitely a world view of a rebel with a cause. * Within the very title of her entertaining social harangue masquerading as a fairy tale revised horror-flick, there lurks both foreboding and rebuke. For happy is that city where
- [Musketeers Season 2 Delivers](https://thetvolution.com/2015/01/musketeers-season-2-delivers/) - "The more things change the more they stay the same" (Les Guêpes, January 1849) Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr They are ale drinking, rabble-rousers. Musket brandishing swashbucklers. Passionate and loyal, arguably, to a fault; their secrets are held close to the vest. They drink more than they ought and street brawl more than they sleep. But, an
- [Able Edwards](https://thetvolution.com/2015/01/able-edwards/) - Let's imagine one could take a heaping jigger of Citizen Kane, another of Blade Runner, pour in a dash of the life of Walt Disney, shake not stir, then serve it chilled with a twist of 2001. That pretty much gives you Able Edwards. Sometime in the far future, in a desperate step to reverse
- [The Man from Earth](https://thetvolution.com/2015/01/the-man-from-earth/) - How rare a thing; a thinking man's sci-fi both stimulating and satisfying. Penned by Jerome Bixby known for such works as The Lost Missile, It, The Terror From Beyond Space, and some of the classic episodes of the original Star Trek and The Twilight Zone this, his last script, serves as a fitting testament to
- [Barry Manilow: My Dream Duets](https://thetvolution.com/2015/01/barry-manilow-my-dream-duets/) - Modern technlogy has given Barry Manilow the opportunity to record "dream" duets with his own musical heroes on MY DREAM DUETS, and it is a bold and daring accomplishment indeed. From cherished idols like Judy Garland and Louis Amstrong to contemporary friends like Whitney Houston and John Denver, they all have joined Manilow in his
- [Barbra Streisand: Partners](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/barbra-streisand-partners/) - Okay....I admit to being an unabashed fan of Barbra Streisand...from the time I was like 12-years-old. Despite my obsession with the burgeoning musicality of the Beatles and many of the other British artists, and the pulsating, kinetic drive of Motown, James Brown and Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand seemed to fit right in – with that
- [EMPIRE – Episode 4](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/empire-episode-4/) - OMG moments on Empire: • While trying to steal a top rap artist from a rival music competitor, Lucious and Anika dodged bullets from a drive by shooting. • Andre rescued his father from a police encounter—again. • Tiana caught Hakeem and Camilla in a steamy bubble bath; • Then Tiana and Hakeem rocked the
- [EMPIRE – Episode 6](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/empire-episode-6/) - • With the title, Out, Damned Spot, you probably would've expected the sixth episode to keenly focus on eldest son Andre and his wife Rhonda. The manipulative couple has been up to Macbethian scheming as they plot to get the upper hand to take over the reigns at Empire Enterprises. o But the cursed spot
- [EMPIRE – Episode 7](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/empire-episode-7/) - Memories from a long ago hit spark flames between Lucious and Cookie and ignite the passionate encounter we've been waiting for. But their lovemaking strikes a bitter note for Anika, who spies the couple upon returning early from a Chicago business trip. Earlier in the evening, Luscious courts uber-wealthy financiers by portraying Empire Entertainment as
- [Sons of the Prophet](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/sons-of-the-prophet/) - Is the secret of succeeding in this messy business called life acceptance? Is the only hope of defeating life's chaotic conflux by acknowledging you will never win? Do we only grasp peace in life when we embrace its survival rate? My head was tumbling with these thoughts and others while I was mulling over Sons
- [EMPIRE – Episode 8](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/empire-episode-8/) - During Empire Entertainment's famous white party, Lucious reminds Jamal that music is the truth. So Jamal explains his sexual preference truth with an exhilarating performance of Lucious' legendary hit, "You're So Beautiful." Jamal's public outing ignites worldwide approval from the music industry, fans and family—except Lucious. "You're So Beautiful" is this episode's only featured performance;
- [End of the Rainbow starts at Long Beach's](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/end-of-the-rainbow-starts-at-long-beachs/) - I can always appreciate Long Beach's International City Theatre even when I don't necessarily enjoy a particular production. Case in point End of the Rainbow, their current show. Confined to a suite in London's Ritz Hotel with a couple of scene shifts to a BBC radio station and the stage of Talk of the Town
- [Jesus Christ Superstar Reigns](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/jesus-christ-superstar-reigns/) - Jesus Christ Superstar is a great show. Lyrics by Tim Rice, and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and for my money its Webber's best. It had something none of his shows would ever have again. Controversy. Rice and Webber's rock opera, empathizing Jesus' interpersonal struggles with his disciples against a background of the political intriguing
- [You Gotta Love Melissa Manchester](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/you-gotta-love-melissa-manchester/) - After a wait of more than a decade since her last release, Melissa Manchester's 20th album, You Gotta Love the Life, is a welcome masterpiece. At the suggestion of her students at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she is adjunct professor teaching the Art of Conversational Singing, Melissa crowd-funded this
- [EMPIRE – Episode 9](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/empire-episode-9/) - The family that fights together stays together—or at least becomes more tolerant of each other—could be the subtitle for Episode 9. In a bitter war against his ex-fiancée Anika and Creedmoor's Billy Baretti, Lucious enlists his sons and ex-wife Cookie to help corral the most top-ranked music stars. Lucious must protect the Lyons' pride and
- [EMPIRE – Episode 10](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/empire-episode-10/) - This 10th episode delivers a surprising Didn't-See-That-Coming moment: Just when it seemed that Jamal is all set to step up to the responsibility of being Lola's father, we learn that the adorable little girl is his sister. "I'm the one who put the baby in her (Olivia)," Lucious confesses as he tries to stop a
- [Queen Latifah is Bessie Smith](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/queen-latifah-is-bessie-smith/) - Queen Latifah stars as the legendary Bessie Smith whose talent and perseverance resulted in her becoming an iconic "Empress of the Blues," in the roaring 1920s' jazz era. Take a look: https://youtu.be/w79dRXLUOVE?rel=0 BESSIE, debuts Saturday, May 16 at 8:00pm only on HBO. BESSIE is directed by Dee Rees Screenplay by Rees and Christopher Cleveland &
- [Parkland and JFK: Two Views of the Assassination](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/parkland-and-jfk-two-views-of-the-assassination/) - "Nothing is so firmly believed as what we know least." Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) In viewing Peter Landesman's Parkland (2013), it is near impossible not to recall Oliver Stone's JFK (1991). Jointly they present the parallel universe inhabited by the American psyche as it pertains to the assassination of John F. Kennedy; Two divergent views
- [CVR: Then and Now](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/charlie-victor-romeo-then-and-now/) - People are funny. In the way we keep making the same mistakes. Even when we're conscious of our tendency to run with fallacious reasoning, or a certain set of logical blinders we're apt to don, or the fact that we're suckers for a redhead or a good "sob-pitch" involving Africa's starving kittens we still strut
- [Henry IV, Part One](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/henry-iv-part-one/) - I love Shakespeare. Straight up. If I could cook him down I'd probably be mainlining the Bard. Any Shakespeare junkie has a major Jonez for the Henry plays. Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V taken together are an Elizabethan House of Cards only with sword play.* It's ironic, that the
- [Welcome to The Show](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/welcome-to-the-show/) - Political Survivor: USA. This show plays almost continuously, with an ever-changing cast, on many shows and many networks. I discovered the first season of Survivor (summer 2000) in its fourth episode, when they caught and ate rats, and I was hooked instantly by the elemental nature of it. A TV blog at the time played
- [Corktown '57 at the Odyssey](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/corktown-57-at-the-odyssey/) - First a bit of Irish history. The Black and Tans were a force of mostly former soldiers enrolled in the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War of Independence. They were mostly British ex-service men, veterans of the vicious front of Western Europe, but a large number of Irishmen joined their ranks as well. While
- [A Presentation of 'I And You'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/a-presentation-of-i-and-you/) - At one point in the production of Lauren Gunderson's I and You at the Fountain Theatre, the main character's bedroom falls apart. Unfortunately, the play had fallen apart long before that moment. Now, I make it a rule not to write reviews of bad plays. What's the point? To show how witty I can be
- [Hillary Declares—Who Knew?](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/hillary-declares-who-knew/) - WHEN TO WATCH: Pick a broadcast network and watch the nightly news. Any day. Or pick a cable network opinion-veiled-as-news show. Watch any minute. Political Survivor continuously—and all too often in a short, closed loop. Speaking of short: campaign news seems to happen in bursts, so that's how I'll cover it. This week, we've got
- [Show Me the Money!](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/show-me-the-money/) - On second thought, don't flash that cash—I'll get ill. The Koch brothers have reportedly committed $900 million, give-or-take, to Republican 2016 campaigns—and are currently auditioning candidates that they can buy with it. (More on that later—word is that they've already brought Scott Walker to the Returns window!) Thank you, SCOTUS and Citizens United. But wait:
- [Recorded in Hollywood: the Musical](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/recorded-in-hollywood-the-musical/) - Okay, a quick side bar. My mother came to Los Angeles in the early '50s as a single parent. She was a raven haired beauty, and my mom, how to phrase this...? My mom gave me many uncles. Many uncles. Frankly, my mom liked men and men liked her. Now in our years together I only heard
- [Flamenco Now,](https://thetvolution.com/2015/04/flamenco-now-flamenco-forever/) - Forever Flamenco is back at the Fountain Theatre, which is cause for celebration. I am a self admitted aficionado, whose been beating the drum for Deborah Lawlor's program which brings the world's most talented performers of Flamenco to Los Angeles, and after seeing the offering of April 19th, I plan on beating that drum even
- [Bring on the Crazy](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/bring-on-the-crazy/) - We're back on the boat deck filled with potential Survivor contestants, waiting to see who will commit by jumping into the water and swimming to shore. The action has picked up considerably since I last wrote. The water in front of us is now churning with swimmers. And are those sharks I see, circling the
- ['Entropy' is on Thru End of May](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/entropy-is-on-thru-end-of-may/) - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language has five definitions for "entropy" [ěn′ trә-pē]. Four of the five could aptly be applied to Bill Robens' play of the same name currently bouncing off the walls at Theatre of Note. Myself now, I think I'll go with #2 and #5. #2 - "A measure of
- [B.B. King—Two-Part Tribute](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/b-b-king-two-part-tribute/) - "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 sister and her husband in France, I heard that the Blues-meister himself, Mr. King was playing up north, just cross the border in Belgium. This was a must-attend
- [Steven Fechter's 'The Woodsman'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/steven-fechters-the-woodsman/) - Not only will I tip my hat to The Coeurage Theatre Company, but if you don't tip your hat as well, I'll be inclined to knock it off your head myself. I say again, not for the first time, not the last, Los Angeles has the most dynamic and imperative theatre in the nation and
- [Dominique Morisseau’s ‘Sunset Baby’ at The Odyssey](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/dominique-morisseaus-sunset-baby-at-the-odyssey/) - Sunset Baby is an intelligently written play with a superb cast that positively gleams from those benefits which blesses any play if either worthy of or lucky enough to get a production at the Odyssey Theatre. Playwright Dominique Morisseau comes bearing a bucket full of honors and accolades. A rather big bucket full. A commendation
- ['Sense8' Trailer of the Wachowskis' Newest Thriller](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/sense8-trailer-of-the-wachowskis-newest-thriller/) - Friday, June 5 we will discover what it means to be "reborn" as a "Sensate." That's the day Netflix unveils from writer/creators Lana and Andy Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski a daring new 12 episode dramatic thriller: Sense8. The basic plot goes like this: Eight ordinary (or sort of) everyday people, from various parts of
- [Rebuilding the Music Business](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/rebuilding-the-music-business-4/) - 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 – both publishing and records – I was strictly a consumer. I bought my CDs, reluctantly got used to the fact of iTunes, heard and bought some of the pop hits
- [Groovin' It With 'The Wrecking Crew'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/groovin-it-with-the-wrecking-crew/) - The Wrecking Crew were a group of uncredited Los Angeles studio musicians who played on and created hundreds of hit records that became the soundtrack to our lives in the '60s and '70s -- and are still on the radio today. The amount of work the group was involved in was remarkable and breathtaking in
- [Echo Theater Company Scores with 'Row After Row' and 'A Small Fire'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/echo-theater-company-scores-with-row-after-row-and-a-small-fire/) - The Echo Theater Company is one of the newer jewels in the crown of Los Angeles theatre, and with their current rep staging of Jessica Dickey's Row After Row and A Small Fire by Adam Bock their gleaming grows more bedazzling. The two short works demonstrate the exceptional talents the L.A. theatre community brims with,
- [How’s Your Truthiness?](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/hows-your-truthiness/) - When Stephen Colbert coined the word "truthiness" in 2005, he meant "...something that seems like truth—the truth we want to exist," (he later explained). Much of current conservative dogma is built on this concept: the assertion that climate change is a scam or that there is a war on Christmas, for two examples. Debates and
- [International City Theatre presents 'Abigail/1702'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/international-city-theatre-presents-abigail1702/) - Abigail/1702 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has received its West Coast premiere at Long Beach's International City Theatre. As usual, the production is top quality. caryn desai, the artistic director and firm hand at the helm of ICT, directs with clarity and craft. The set by Christopher Scott Murillo is both intriguing and evocative of an early
- [Campaign Noir](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/campaign-noir/) - Every campaign has at least one noir moment, when (as in film noir) the protagonist tries to do The Right Thing but winds up doing exactly the opposite. That's a powerful plot device in fiction, getting the lead into deeper and deeper trouble, so that we can personally feel the relief when s/he climbs out
- [An Outstanding Production of 'House of Yes'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/an-outstanding-production-of-house-of-yes/) - Periodically in the theatre certain works crop up at the most crucial of times arising in answer to some distinct exigency of their own era or generation. These plays, while varying in tone and style, all fulfill a similar and much needed service: that of delivering a custard cream pie full in the face of
- [Rebuilding the Music Business](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/rebuilding-the-music-business-3/) - Admittedly, I'm not a music streaming customer. While I channel some (but not most) of my entertainment through my computer, I actually prefer watching television on a television, and listening to music via CDs or my iPod. Music streaming had not been on my radar at all until last year. Last spring I became aware
- [Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015...](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/hollywood-fringe-festival-2015/) - Brace yourselves. It's Hollywood Fringe time. The Hollywood Fringe, for the uninitiated, is a glorious explosion celebrating the arts and artists. If you haven't experienced it in years past you have no idea what you've been missing and this year is certainly not one to be missed: ● 300 productions ● 1,400 performances ● From
- [Rebuilding the Music Business...](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/rebuilding-the-music-business-2/) - If you follow economic or political news at all, you know there has been a lot of discussion about our national infrastructure and the need to rebuild it: our roads, bridges, airports, train stations, cell towers, internet lines – all those things we need to get us and our stuff from one point to another,
- [The Race Card](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/the-race-card/) - No, not that race card. But some candidate will play it before the election. Promise. I mean the horse race card. I’m abandoning the Survivor metaphor for this time out, in honor of the first Triple Crown winner in nearly four decades. We’ll come back to castaways on the beach next time. For now, it’s
- [Hollywood Fringe 2015 Medal Count..](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/hollywood-fringe-2015-medal-count-3/) - THE GOLD MEDALS: ANNA IN THE DARKNESS LA LA LA STRADA NELL GWYNNE – A DRAMATICK ESSAYE ON ACTING AND PROSTITUTION SHAKESPEARE'S LAST NIGHT OUT: (OR WHAT? YOU, WILL??) STUPID SONGS! THE SILVER MEDALS: THE LAST KNOWN RECORDING OF THE LOVELY LENORE SISTERS - (With a Gold Metal Performance) THE POE SHOW THE BRONZE MEDALS: THE
- [CURSED “MY ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD”](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/cursed-my-road-to-hollywood/) - CURSED “MY ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD” is an Ear Wax Medal Winner I write this without the least rancor towards Ms. Mendoza. I don’t know the woman. I do understand she is something of a figure in the entertainment industry. So what? Her position or influence is of no concern to me and meaningless to this
- [Hollywood Fringe 2015 Medal Count...](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/hollywood-fringe-2015-medal-count/) - THE GOLD MEDALS: ANNABELLA BOOZE, BALLS AND BLUEGRASS THE DEVIL YOU SAY RESERVE CHAMPION REVOLUTIONARY LOVE THE THREE MUSKETEERERS: CLOWNS WITH SWORDS THE BRONZE MEDALS: FIFTY SHADES OF SHREW MUDD THE MAGNIFICENT: MAGIC & MAYHEM NERD ANARCHY ORSON WELLES & SCATMAN CROTHERS IN 'A HOLLYWOOD ENDING' THE EAR WAX MEDALS: CURSED "MY ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD”
- [Recorded in Hollywood: The Extension](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/recorded-in-hollywood-the-extension/) - Recorded in Hollywood has been extended. What's this, you say... what’s Recorded in Hollywood? Why, I’m glad you asked. There was once an Alabama-born lad who, during his youth, hopscotched across the land, sojourning for a time in Detroit, Michigan. After landing in Los Angeles as a young adult, John Grayton Dolphin’s entrepreneurial spirit took
- [The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015...](https://thetvolution.com/2015/07/the-hollywood-fringe-festival-2015/) - The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015: Final Tallies & Reviews HOUSE OF RABBITS CHARIVARI IN VOYEURVILLE (Platinum Medal) House of Rabbits Charivari in Voyeurville developed by Brandon Baruch and directed by Baruch and Kyle Johnston owes a great deal to The British Music Hall/rock band The Tiger Lillies and their musical reinterpretation of Heinrich Hoffmann’s 19th
- [The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015...](https://thetvolution.com/2015/07/the-hollywood-fringe-festival-2015-2/) - The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015 has drawn to a close. The following is the Medal Tally for the 57 Shows I attended: 13 PLATINUM MEDALS 14 GOLD MEDALS 8 SILVER MEDALS 18 BRONZE 4 EAR WAX ♦ ♦ ♦ THE PLATINUM MEDALS: ANNA IN THE DARKNESS BLOOD, A VOODOO LOVE STORY BRIGHT SWORDS SIMON
- [The Eight-Year Itch](https://thetvolution.com/2015/07/the-eight-year-itch/) - Obama’s had a great couple of weeks politically, but he’s still gone as of January 20, 2017. That leaves a vacuum that the political arm of Mother Nature must find a way to fill. It’s one reason why more Republicans than you could stuff into a stretch limo are running. But it doesn’t explain why
- [Rebuilding the Music Business](https://thetvolution.com/2015/07/rebuilding-the-music-business/) - 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 still be writing on the same topic – singing the same song, as it were – more than two years later. The subject just kept growing: in early 2014, I started
- ['Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of...'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/07/stanley-ann-the-unlikely-story-of/) - A one-woman-show on Barack Obama’s mother.... Hmmmmmmm..... The subject is always a problem when it comes to the one-man or one-woman show. If the character is a literary figure, the danger is having your undertaking overwhelmed by his or her own writings. This is especially a threat when the writer or performer of the show
- [Republicans Eat T®ump Sausage](https://thetvolution.com/2015/07/republicans-eat-tump-sausage/) - We are all Donald Trump now. In 1963, JFK went to the Berlin wall and said, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner). Following 9/11, many people around the world said, "We are New Yorkers." Now former National Lampoon writer P.J. O'Rourke has stepped forward to tell us, "America is Donald Trump". Or wants to
- [I Died…I Came Back…Whatever...](https://thetvolution.com/2015/07/i-diedi-came-backwhatever/) - Cyanne McClairian’s one woman show, I Died...I Came Back...Whatever will now enjoy the dubious distinction of serving me as an excellent example to call upon when an opinion I hold is in need of bolstering. (Would you believe that doesn’t happen often? Would you believe that if it was reported by Sean Hannity?) You see,
- [The False Servant Delivers Nothing but Truths](https://thetvolution.com/2015/07/the-false-servant-delivers-nothing-but-truths/) - A life lacking passion is paralysis. The particular focus of that passion counts for beans. Take your pick: Video Games, Persian rugs, NASCAR, graffiti art, in later life Winston Churchill’s passion was masonry; what counts is the possession of a passion, one that possesses you. The rewards are multifold, but arguably one of the best
- ['Madness! Murder! Mayhem!' is Rampant](https://thetvolution.com/2015/07/madness-murder-mayhem-is-rampant/) - 1897. The Glorious Century, a period of unprecedented peace across all Europe was at a close. As that gilded, moribund age ended, Le Théâtre du Grand Guignol began on a stage tucked deeply in a back alley of Paris’ Pigalle quarter. Its founder and first director, Oscar Méténier, intended it as an act of defiance
- [The Campaign Circus](https://thetvolution.com/2015/07/the-campaign-circus/) - “God bless Donald Trump. This campaign has been a masterwork of performance art. He couldn't be doing a better job to illustrate just how absurd our election process has become.” Texas_Vinyl said that in the Comments section of an article about Trump vs. Rick Perry. These days, it’s Trump vs. Everyone and Anyone. Texas_Vinyl is right of course,
- [Forever Flamenco Anyone?](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/forever-flamenco-anyone/) - Flamenco is exceptional. Nowhere is grace found infused with such power, nor the sorrow and the joy of the human condition expressed with more realness than in the music and dance of flamenco. The Fountain Theatre’s Forever Flamenco Series, under Deborah Lawlor has been California’s and, arguably, the nation’s foremost peña for nearly two decades.
- [Game of Tribes](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/game-of-tribes/) - The folks who produce Survivor think that they understand tribes. Jeff Probst’s first official duty, on the first episode of every season, is to divide the contestants into tribes—for competition and drama. And of course all of that happens even within the tribes, because who joins which tribe is entirely arbitrary. So they really aren’t tribes. It
- [Make Time for 'Picnic'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/make-time-for-picnic/) - The Antaeus Theatre Company always amazes me. The work they do is of the highest quality, and the actors that make up their company are all top tier. It is a joy to attend any production they mount, and Picnic, William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama is no exception. Now I’ll admit I am not
- [Pre-debate Prep from Political Survivor](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/pre-debate-prep-from-political-survivor/) - Here’s a quickie to help you prepare for the Republican debate on Thursday August 9. In 2012, my wife and I noticed certain phrases being repeated and decided to make a list. That list follows. You shouldn’t consider it a debate drinking game—just drink and enjoy the verbal roller derby. Consider this list a stimulus
- [The Soul of Amy Winehouse](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/the-soul-of-amy-winehouse/) - 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 only less than two years earlier, emotions were still rather raw. So Kapadia opted to forgo the camera and used an audio recorder to make them feel more comfortable. "They
- ['Citizen: An American Lyric' at The Fountain](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/citizen-an-american-lyric-at-the-fountain/) - In its quintessence, theatre is the bonding of poetry and dance. That is oft forgotten in this age of directors as practitioners of non-linear deconstructionism and playwrights enamored of mono- syllabic dialogue. But neglected does not render it any the less true. Citizen: An American Lyric validates and testifies to the potency of that bonding.
- [Debating at the Cat’s Table](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/debating-at-the-cats-table/) - Michael Ondaatje’s eponymous 2011 novel grants romance and intrigue to the lowliest dining area on a ship—The Cat’s Table. There was absolutely no romance and not much intrigue in the junior league debate Thursday night. And the Friday newspapers were filled with the other debate, which had a bit more drama at least. For contrast,
- [The Bulworth Candidacy](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/the-bulworth-candidacy/) - In the 1998 film Bulworth, Warren Beatty played a disillusioned politician who puts out a contract on himself, and then feels free to say exactly what’s on his mind. What he says is of course politically incorrect, but it forges a visceral connection with the public that is both hilarious and compelling. Bulworth was a scripted and
- ['All American Girl' (ITC)](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/all-american-girl/) - Wendy Graf has written an intelligent, craftsman work about an idealistic All American Girl seeking to convey her love of life through religious expression, first embracing Islam and then through personal tragedies, descends to the level of a terrorist. Graf’s work, which is precise, emotionally truthful and devoid of tabloid hysteria, finds a director fully
- [A Reluctant Champion Comes of Age in HBO’s 'Show Me a Hero'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/a-reluctant-champion-comes-of-age-in-hbos-show-me-a-hero/) - Say it ain’t so... but I know it is... or at least can be and in the case of HBO’s Show Me a Hero, taken from true life happenings, certainly was. A six part event series, Show Me a Hero, adapted from Lisa Belkin’s 1999 nonfiction work of the same name, delicately and deliberately, unravels
- [Why I'm Watching Fear the Walking Dead](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/why-im-watching-fear-the-walking-dead/) - In the words of an FTWD character: “When civilization ends, it ends fast.” That’s Right. I love The Walking Dead. The discovery that I don’t just like The Walking Dead, but that I love It, is usually met with a degree of surprise. The astonishment has nothing to do with the quality of the series. It
- [Do We Know What Matters?](https://thetvolution.com/2015/08/do-we-know-what-matters/) - What’s so embarrassing for me (an old white man) about watching an old white presidential candidate say—almost indignantly—“Well... all lives matter,” is that I remember very well acting that naive myself. And I wasn’t old. At age 20, I was dating a black woman, and I tried to establish my bona fides with her father by telling
- [The Summer of Magical Thinking](https://thetvolution.com/2015/09/the-summer-of-magical-thinking/) - For me, the internet can be like standing in line at the supermarket. Oh, those tabloids! My eye is also drawn to the lurid headlines under the end of an online article, or to the movement in the far right column. And I end up clicking. One so-called article drew my eyes with a photo
- [August Wilson's Fences:](https://thetvolution.com/2015/09/august-wilsons-fences/) - I always feel a kinship between August Wilson and the ancient Greek playwrights. Like the dramas of Euripides and other Athenian dramatists there are always outside forces at work driving the characters of Wilson’s plays, for the Greeks it was the Gods, for Wilson the interplay of social economics factors, and history. History was Apollo
- [Another Column about Donald Effing Trump?](https://thetvolution.com/2015/09/another-column-about-donald-effing-trump/) - Post-debate note: The political wind seemed to change at the second debate. So--praise cheeses!--this may be the last Trump-centric column. He’s what’s happening, baby! His poll numbers keep climbing, the TV coverage is non-stop, and the rest of us just want cover our ears and shout out “La la la la la la...” But if
- [Walker Falls into the Fire](https://thetvolution.com/2015/09/walker-falls-into-the-fire/) - Yesss! We’re finally back to our ersatz Survivor season. We’ve endured months of chest pounding and breast beating on the beach, with the contestants attacking each other. Not much else to do, there’s no voting going on for another four months. There has been plenty of spending, which requires donations. And plenty of polling, which the folks
- [It's Time to Catch The "Princes of Kings Road"](https://thetvolution.com/2015/09/its-time-to-catch-the-princes-of-kings-road/) - Here you have reviews of two shows The Princes of Kings Road at the Neutra Institute Museum and Gallery, and Café Society at the Odyssey Ensemble Theatre. I suggest you read them jointly as both function in revealing the strengths and flaws of the other. Along the way I promise to disclose some secrets to success
- [Miki Johnson's "American Falls"](https://thetvolution.com/2015/09/miki-johnsons-american-falls/) - American Falls by Miki Johnson is a lovely and touching piece of writing. It is a work about time and history, the history that was, the history that will be. Seven characters from the small Idaho town of American Falls; A gregarious Billy, “Mound of Clouds,” a Native American tells us about his shoes that speak
- ['Café Society' at the Odyssey...](https://thetvolution.com/2015/09/cafe-society-at-the-odyssey-is-it-real-or-is-it-starbucks/) - Here you have reviews of two shows The Princes of Kings Road at the Neutra Institute Museum and Gallery, and Café Society at the Odyssey Ensemble Theatre. I suggest you read them jointly as both function in revealing the strengths and flaws of the other. Along the way I promise to disclose some secrets to success
- [Does George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man" Hold Up?](https://thetvolution.com/2015/09/does-george-bernard-shaws-arms-and-the-man-hold-up/) - Arms and the Man is one of George Bernard Shaw’s most appealing plays; which is what he intended it to be. Shaw’s first play, Widowers’ House, produced in 1892, was an assault on the practices of London slum lords. His next play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession was completed in 1893, had prostitution as its central issue.
- [Common Ground is the New Arctic Ice](https://thetvolution.com/2015/10/common-ground-is-the-new-arctic-ice/) - In the U.S. recently: Pope Francis. Chinese President Xi Jinping. Russian President Vladimir Putin. And a political zombie—yet another threat to shut down the government, this time because radical Republicans want Planned Parenthood defunded. This last one has become really tiresome. John Boehner’s advance-notice resignation staved off that crisis, but it’ll be back in December.
- [Plenty of 'Breathing Room'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/10/plenty-of-breathing-room/) - “I was trained as a classical musician, so my approach to theater comes from a different perspective than most playwrights.” So says Mary Lou Newmark in discussing Breathing Room her stunningly beautiful and sensibly subversive work now on stage at the Greenway Court Theatre. Ms. Newmark’s perspective is not that of a playwright and her
- [Lord of the House-Flies](https://thetvolution.com/2015/10/lord-of-the-house-flies/) - Our little game of Political Survivor abruptly expanded to the House of Representatives last week, with potentially explosive results. Speaker John Boehner finally got so disgusted with his own tribe that he voted himself off the island, and now his presumed successor, California Representative Kevin McCarthy, has done the same before his colleagues could even attempt to
- [Moments from the Democrats’ Debate](https://thetvolution.com/2015/10/moments-from-the-democrats-debate/) - CNN debate anchor Anderson Cooper was intent on confrontation and stirring up rivalries ... after all, the whole thing really is about watchable TV, right? But the candidates foiled him by talking at length about real issues. Nobody mentioned abortion brain harvesting or selling baby body parts for profit. One reason: nobody’s actually doing that.
- ['Wizards and Fools The Hallows' Fool Moon'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/10/wizards-and-fools-the-hallows-fool-moon/) - If that be the fashion of your dreams then I say hold on to those dreams...or maybe not. However, if music be the food of love then I say play on. When I came to the Actors Forum Theatre, now in its forty-first year (Yay!), to see Wizards and Fools: The Hallows’ Fool Moon, Written
- [They're Dropping Like Flies](https://thetvolution.com/2015/10/theyre-dropping-like-flies/) - The Democratic field has lost half since we last spoke. Not the Republicans, the Democrats! Joe Biden: gone, even if never official. Jim Webb: a war hero, gone. Lincoln Chaffee: a joke, gone. Martin O’Malley: still around, and still irrelevant. A newish entrant, also irrelevant, is Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard professor running to protest the
- [An MI-5 for the Big Screen and DirecTV](https://thetvolution.com/2015/10/an-mi-5-for-the-big-screen-and-directv-2/) - This long runnng Brit series, which has been refreshed, all to the good, several times over is available for viewing on DirecTV beginning November 5.
- [A Rousing 'Sondheim on Sondheim'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/10/a-rousing-sondheim-on-sondheim/) - “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 producers of a certain series creates an entirely “new” episode by cannibalizing past ones. Sometimes you’ll find them featured as a series’ finale as the show’s regulars reminisce via
- ['The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls'](https://thetvolution.com/2015/10/the-fairytale-lives-of-russian-girls/) - Meg Miroshnik’s The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls is a frequently poetic, consistently absorbing mishmash of Paglia’s pronouncements, Bettelheim’s theories and a cascade of feminist icons and archetypes ranging from Cinderella to “Pussy Riot.” Her credentials are solid enough: O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, finalist for the Blackburn prize and an MFA in playwriting from the
- [Are We There Yet?](https://thetvolution.com/2015/11/are-we-there-yet/) - ...Not even close. Primaries are the tribal councils of this metaphorical Survivor season. That’s because opinion polls and voting are not the same thing, at least not this far ahead of the general election. It goes like this: You might tell someone on the telephone that you like Trump or Carson. But now it’s months later; you’re
- [Debating the Debates](https://thetvolution.com/2015/11/debating-the-debates/) - It took several tries before I could finish this Charles Krauthammer article about the Republicans squandering their “victory” over the so-called mainstream media, via CNBC’s demeaning questions at the most recent debate. But as Eugene Robinson explains here, it was really the phrasing and not the questions themselves. In short, Donald Trump’s candidacy—as exemplified by the 50-foot high
- [A Hard Right Turn — Again](https://thetvolution.com/2015/11/a-hard-right-turn-again/) - The November 13 Paris attacks changed the trajectory of our 2016 presidential election, and not for the good. I know because I’ve watched it happen before. On September 11, 2001, my wife and I were visiting Maine for a wedding. Here’s how to feel spooked: the house where I grew up was a mere two
- [Julia Migenes Sings Kurt Weil](https://thetvolution.com/2015/11/julia-migenes-sings-kurt-weil/) - As casual as can be, Julia Migenes strolls on the nearly bare stage at the Odyssey Ensemble Theatre. The only other presence is that of Mitsuko Morikawa, Migenes’ accompanist, sitting at the keyboard of her piano. There is no warning as to what is awaiting the audience at that point. Well perhaps Migenes’ piquant red
- [Luther’s Back—In a BBC America Movie Event](https://thetvolution.com/2015/11/luthers-back-in-a-bbc-america-movie-event/) - What: BBC America’s Psychological Detective Thriller— One Night, Three Hour Movie Event TVolution Quick Take Summary: We thought we’d seen the last of him at the end of Season 4, Yes? How surprised were we, glee notwithstanding, when series writer/creator Neil Cross announced we would be getting another dose of the strapping, charismatic, lethally effective
- [“Dark Matter” Fills the Political Universe, Too](https://thetvolution.com/2015/11/dark-matter-fills-the-political-universe-too/) - From Space.com: Overall, dark energy is thought to contribute 73 percent of all the mass and energy in the universe. Another 23 percent is dark matter, which leaves only 4 percent of the universe composed of regular matter, such as stars, planets and people. The scientific community—you know, those silly humorless folks who keep pushing theories
- [A One Man Show—The Money Fi$h](https://thetvolution.com/2015/12/a-one-man-show-the-money-fih/) - “Hell is really cold, wet and smells like fish.” In the tale of his time as a greenhorn on a commercial fishing barge in the Bering Straits, John Cox definitely has an interesting story for his one man show, The Money Fi$h. However an interesting story is not necessarily a dramatic one. Herein lies the
- [What is “The American Character”?](https://thetvolution.com/2015/12/what-is-the-american-character/) - I’ve started this column several times, but the news keeps getting ahead of me. And not in a good way. Not something juicy like a candidate dropping out or yet another “brain harvesting” meltdown from what’s-her-name. Syrian refugee crisis? That is SO last month. The Paris attacks are now two (or is it three?) mass
- [Jingoism All the Way](https://thetvolution.com/2015/12/jingoism-all-the-way/) - The GOP field presidential candidates held a noisy war drum circle on December 15... otherwise known as their Tuesday debate. They warred with each other, with Muslims, with refugees. You’ve been abandoned—yes, abandoned!—by your Democrat leaders, America. I know you’re scared to death now, but *I* will utterly destroy ISIS during my first day in office!
- [Why is Mr. Robot the BFD of 2015?](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/why-is-mr-robot-the-bfd-of-2015/) - Last year (2014) The Honorable Woman snagged two TVolution Honors: the Bravest and the Best Freshman Drama of the summer. A creative field plump full of fascinating fare, makes it that much more challenging to declare one show deserving of the title “Best” over another when all, worthy of making the list, are extraordinary. This year,
- [Los Angeles Theater's Best of 2015](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/los-angeles-theaters-best-of-2015/) - The year 2015 is slipping away into history, and more importantly into memory. We are oblivious to the value of memory in our youth. Is it because our experience with it is so shallow at that time in our lives? Or perhaps it’s that those aspects which enhance memory’s worth: loss, regret, joy, pride have
- [Thoughts on Abortion, the Sorry State of Christianity in America,](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/thoughts-on-abortion-the-sorry-state-of-christianity-in-america/) - A friend of mine, (one who knows I’ve just finished a year long project of re-reading the Bible—for the fifth or sixth time—and while doing so consolidating close to thirty years of notes and annotations into one very large volume), has been sending me tidbits off the internet which he felt to be pertinent to
- [There Will Be Blood](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/there-will-be-blood/) - At 11:30 on New Year’s Eve, a friend asked me what actual “new” things would come in 2016. The political junkie in me rose up in excitement and ...sighed... because the answer is “not mfuch.” The Republicans, their excessive number of candidates not withstanding, sound no different than they always do—pounding their war drums while
- [Noel Coward’s 'Hay Fever' on Now](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/noel-cowards-hay-fever-on-now/) - Noel Coward’s Hay Fever at Theatre Palisades is a wonderfully delivered comedy of manners. Laughs and folly spring from the situation and well-turned phrases. At the beginning of a Noel Coward piece you have the words. Those artfully stylized, crafted sentences twisting like a Möbius strip. The utterly clever language of Hay Fever is not
- [President Trump: The Movie Pitch](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/president-trump-the-movie-pitch/) - This is actually a treatment, the longer form that follows a successful pitch …because a treatment is longer and lots more fun and because I keep reading political articles that accept Trump as the Republican nominee. If that doesn't scare you, maybe this will... YUGE: The Trump Presidency The Pitch Trump wins the presidential election
- [Sam Harris in Ham a Musical Memoir](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/sam-harris-in-ham-a-musical-memoir/) - Seven years prior to American Idol breaking out on Fox to become one of the most successful and talked about television shows in U.S. history, there was Star Search. From 1983 to 1995, Ed McMahon hosted the talent competition filmed initially at the old Earl Carroll Theatre (now the Nickelodeon) on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
- [Stephen Sach’s Dream Catcher](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/stephen-sachs-dream-catcher/) - Stephen Sachs is an intellectual juggernaut of a playwright who plumbs premises for his pieces from the pages of the Los Angeles Times and other news sources, populates them with well developed and finely crafted characters, then provides them with dialogue both sparkling and believable. He demonstrated this in Bakersfield Mist whose basic storyline would
- [Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop"](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/katori-halls-the-mountaintop/) - Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop won the 2010 British Olivier Award for Best New Play. In 2011 it opened in New York with Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett. And on February 6, 2016 it opened at the Matrix Theatre Company and at the closing of that first performance in Los Angeles, received a standing ovation
- [About 'Bed' — The World Premiere](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/about-bed-the-world-premiere/) - The bed is our most formidable arena. And two people in bed alone are never really by themselves. Bed by Sheila Callaghan, is a slight piece of sexual fluff which nevertheless conveys an intoxicating freshness in both writing and acting that lifts it above expectations to win over the audience. Holly (Kate Morgan Chadwick) is
- [Schadenfreude, with a Side of Carnage](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/schadenfreude-with-a-side-of-carnage/) - Schadenfreude [shahd-n-froi-duh] noun. Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune. Serve it up ice cold! Tribal Council finally arrived. Two of ’em. And blood was spilled. South Carolina comes up next, and in Nevada another caucus with scarcely decipherable rules. Suddenly, everything is moving at top speed. We’ve been watching this circus for nearly a year,
- [Perfect Timing for "Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo"](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/perfect-timing-for-placas-the-most-dangerous-tattoo/) - Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo has only a week left on its limited run at Casa 0101 in Boyle Heights, which is a pity. It is a rough, poetical work about the plights of Salvadoran immigrants, driven from their homeland by the unending cycle of violence and civil war, who come to this country in
- [Politics as a Contact Sport](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/politics-as-a-contact-sport/) - When I think that political discourse has hit a new low--twice a week these days--I sometimes remind myself of the brutal caning of Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate in 1856. The subject was slavery. Sumner was nearly killed and his attacker, Representative Preston Brooks, widely praised across the South. It was one
- ["Father, Son & Holy Coach" at The Odyssey](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/father-son-holy-coach-at-the-odyssey/) - I initially reviewed John Posey’s one man show, Father, Son & Holy Coach when it played at the Whitefire Theatre last year. I thought it would be interesting to have a second opportunity to consider the show again and see if time might have shifted my feelings towards it, and to discover if the writer
- [The Tempest Reimagined](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/the-tempest-reimagined/) - John Farmanesh-Bocca has in the past impressed me. Now he’s pissed me off. Though, I am still impressed. A number of years back Farmanesh-Bocca first entered my consciousness with his staging of Ellen McLaughlin’s Ajax in Iraq at the Miles Playhouse in Santa Monica by his Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble. Ajax in Iraq
- [“Swarm Cell” Premiere](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/swarm-cell-premiere/) - There is a great deal about Swarm Cell which is commendable.... Now you know with an opening line like the one above what inevitably must follow. And it is true that there is a great deal about Swarm Cell which must be faulted. The show features a youngish cast, with the script credited to Gabriel Rivas
- [The Ongoing Tarantino Movie](https://thetvolution.com/2016/02/the-ongoing-tarantino-movie/) - In my previous post, I quoted MSNBC reporter Chuck Todd speculating that the period before the South Carolina primary—now a mere memory—would be like a Quentin Tarantino movie, with the main players pointing guns in each other’s faces. And firing. He wasn’t wrong, and that week was fun to watch. But it was just the
- [This Month Find Forever Flamenco](https://thetvolution.com/2016/03/this-month-find-forever-flamenco/) - There are a number of events and venues here in L.A. which I maintain are under appreciated. I’m talking about places and performances unique to this city which I’m convinced the fine folks living here would relish the experience of – if they’d just get off their haunches and go. I’m talking such civic treasures
- [The GOP Tries Chemo](https://thetvolution.com/2016/03/the-gop-tries-chemo/) - And when chemotherapy fails, what’s left—Kryptonite? There’s no easy cure for the cancer that is metastasizing in the Republican Party right now. As you may have read in more than a few opinion pieces, GOP presidential candidate and front runner Donald Trump is the natural end product of Republican behavior that began in the 1968
- [Game of Thrones New Season 6 Trailer Offers Us Much More Than Jon Snow](https://thetvolution.com/2016/03/game-of-thrones-new-season-6-trailer-offers-us-much-more-than-jon-snow/) - The wait’s been long, but the time is nigh: April 24th is coming. Books in the series whose stories will play out: There will be The Winds of Winter with some carry over from A Feast for Crows and A Dance of Dragons. Mostly, however, the 2015 Emmy winning Best Drama Series creators (D. B. Weiss
- [Oh, for those Good Old Days!](https://thetvolution.com/2016/03/oh-for-those-good-old-days/) - In the Good Old Days that Donald Trump talks about at rallies, jackboots are apparently the style. And I say “are” because those times never actually were. Like so many other historical fantasies, such as Saint Ronnie or the success of trickle down economics, they exist only in the phantom zone of collective modern mythology. “You can’t even have
- [The Americans—The Spies Ante Gets Upped](https://thetvolution.com/2016/03/the-americans-the-spies-ante-gets-upped-for-season-4/) - The Americans, season 4 premiere 10pm, Weds. (March, 16) on FX. Be prepared for a whip-lash year. Now, it’s possible you may be someone whose not yet found the FX political thriller. If so, heed the following counsel: DVR Wednesday night’s premiere. Sign on to Amazon Prime or iTunes and get caught up. The Americans
- [Pennington: A Conversation Celebrating Dance](https://thetvolution.com/2016/03/pennington-a-conversation-celebrating-dance-and-15-years/) - I love speaking to a kindred soul whose passions are rooted in another field different from mine. It always fascinates me to hear them tell of their pursuit of artistic achievement using a vocabulary so utterly dissimilar from my own while yet describing essentially the same path that I or anyone else chasing the chimera
- [Dueling Populist Revolutions](https://thetvolution.com/2016/03/dueling-populist-revolutions/) - Terrifying in some circles, hotly desired in others: the party divided by a populist revolution and defeated by an electorate that cannot unify behind the eventual candidate. Do you think I mean the Republicans? Yes. But also the Democrats. Most of the 2016 excitement in both parties emanates from voters who have rarely seen an
- [In Plain Sight: The Hidden Treasure of Los Angeles – Part I](https://thetvolution.com/2016/03/in-plain-sight-the-hidden-treasure-of-los-angeles-part-i/) - (Now please, if you can’t make it through this rather long winded harangue of homage, simply scroll to the end and check out the coming events at The Velaslavasay Panorama.) I love L.A. Most folks who come here don’t really get it. They find themselves confused and disappointed by the fact that Los Angeles isn’t
- ['Blood': World Premiere Run Extended](https://thetvolution.com/2016/03/blood-world-premiere-run-extended/) - Frankly, I wasn’t planning on writing this review. I saw the show, and well.... Robert Allen Ackerman has New York directing credits popping out of his ears. He’s worked for the New York Shakespeare Festival, with Meryl Streep, Colleen Dewhurst, Helen Mirren and Maurice Evans. He’s directed the Tony nominated, Broadway production of Bent with
- [The Balking Dead](https://thetvolution.com/2016/04/the-balking-dead/) - As I write this, it’s just a few days until the crucial Wisconsin primary, and the impossible is seemingly in play: Donald Trump trailing Ted Cruz by ten points in the polls there. Is the so-called “Trump slump” real? The so-called Republican Establishment is hoping so, even though the alternative seems to be the even
- [Game of Thrones Season 6 Trailer 2 is Here!](https://thetvolution.com/2016/04/game-of-thrones-season-6-trailer-2-is-here/) - Wake up you princes of Westeros. Stay alert you Mother of Dragons. Justice is sweet. Justified vengeance is better. HBO released trailer number 2 for the Game of Thrones sixth season whose premiere date is just under two weeks away. What can you expect from this massively popular Fantasmagory this year...? More... https://youtu.be/EI0ib1NErqg The Starks remain split to
- [HBO Releases Two More GOT Season 6 Clips](https://thetvolution.com/2016/04/hbo-releases-two-more-got-season-6-clips/) - Two more clips released from HBO with hints at what we can expect this coming season: Cersei Lannister all but threw her beloved Jaimie away upon his unexpected return from Stark captivity. The abiding, nonjudgmental love which Jaimie obviously holds for his lover/sister is not returned. The Queen Mother, it seems, is holding on to
- [When Mimes Shout](https://thetvolution.com/2016/04/when-mimes-shout/) - The Republican side of this primary season, nearing its final throes, is playing out like a vintage horror movie that features only villains. Cartoonist David Horsey captured it perfectly with his depiction of Ted Cruz as Dracula telling a fair young thing that he’ll save her from the FrankenTrump monster (and angry villagers) roaming the streets below.
- [The Superhero and his Charming Wife:](https://thetvolution.com/2016/04/the-superhero-and-his-charming-wife/) - The Superhero and his Charming Wife purports to be “inspired by archetypes and dreams” presented in the style of “an adventure comic book”; and this description of the new production by the Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble (NMA) lives up to that claim. Sitting through the evening, written and directed by NMA associate artistic
- ['Dry Land' Makes a Splash](https://thetvolution.com/2016/04/dry-land-makes-a-splash-at-the-echo-theater-company/) - Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel drew its inspiration from a 2012 article in The New Republic concerning the assault on the reproductive rights of women in America and the lengths some found themselves forced to go through when faced with an unwanted pregnancy. In the intervening years, that assault has only increased in its
- [Here’s the Rope, There’s the Scaffold](https://thetvolution.com/2016/04/heres-the-rope-theres-the-scaffold/) - Candidates, hang yourselves! Nobody does it better than you. The victories scored by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the April 26 primaries would seem to lock up Trump v. Clinton for the general election. (Yes, despite the unwillingness of Sanders, Cruz and Kasich to concede.) What’s left is oh-so appropriate for our record-setting climate change era:
- ['The Turn of the Screw'](https://thetvolution.com/2016/05/the-turn-of-the-screw/) - "He was looking for someone else, you say—someone who was not you?" "He was looking for little Miles." A portentous clearness now possessed me. "That’s whom he was looking for." "But how do you know?" "I know, I know, I know!" My exaltation grew. "And you know, my dear!" "I don't do it!" I sobbed
- [OFF THE BEATEN PATHÉ—Soulless and Hellish Comedies](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/off-the-beaten-pathe-soulless-and-hellish-comedies/) - The intended purpose of this monthly column is to bring to the attention of cinema junkies those odd and typically genre defying films which may have slipped, justifiably or not, beneath the radar of even the most diehard film aficionados. For the offerings I shall be presenting here, I will roam the vast ranks of
- [Grab Some Pine, Meat!](https://thetvolution.com/2016/05/grab-some-pine-meat/) - One of my favorite game announcers for the San Francisco Giants is a former Giant himself, pitcher Mike Krukow. He works numerous trademark sayings into his schtick every game, but his most famous one might be: “Grab some pine, meat!” …used to add a humorous insult to someone’s embarrassing strikeout: go sit on the bench, you
- [Forever Flamenco Returns...](https://thetvolution.com/2016/05/forever-flamenco-returns-to-the-fountain/) - Well once again you have the opportunity of experiencing one of the true treats of L.A. Sunday, May 22 – Forever Flamenco. Why do I keep urging you to get down to the Fountain Theatre in Hollywood and partake in this monthly series? What makes Flamenco so special, you ask? Well, all right, since you
- [It's My Party and...](https://thetvolution.com/2016/05/its-my-party-and/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYJyVEUaC4 So Leslie Gore is crying because someone messed with her party? She’s clearly not a 2016 Republican. The sound you hear out in GOP-land is not weeping; it’s locking and loading. When Speaker of the House Paul Ryan admitted that he wasn’t yet ready to endorse his party’s presumptive nominee, he may not have realized exactly
- ['Next Fall' Rises Again](https://thetvolution.com/2016/05/next-fall-rises-again/) - Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts is a stunningly sincere and heartfelt drama that is sure to move any audience. That may be an odd way to kick off a review, but when one leaves the Macha Theatre after the final bows are taken, what they will feel enveloped in, is the taut, honest humanity that
- [A Walk in the Woods at the ICT proves to be More Than Relevant](https://thetvolution.com/2016/05/a-walk-in-the-woods-at-the-ict-proves-to-be-more-than-relevant/) - The most disappointing feature of Lee Blessing’s succinct if a tad “lite” A Walk in the Woods now gracing the stage of Long Beach’s International City Theatre is its stubborn and annoying relevance. Blessing has a Master’s Eye of seeing the potential of theatrical success in the flotsam of history, and A Walk in the
- [The Relevance of Berkoff's 'Hairy Ape'](https://thetvolution.com/2016/05/the-relevance-of-berkoffs-hairy-ape/) - The surest way to appreciate Steven Berkoff’s Hairy Ape now playing at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is to have acquaintance with Eugene O’Neill’s play of the same name. O’Neill’s Hairy Ape was first staged in 1922. It falls in what critics and scholars have designated his “second period” which includes All God 's Chillun Got Wings,
- [The Name Game](https://thetvolution.com/2016/05/the-name-game/) - An advisor to Donald Trump recently explained the candidate’s multiple (and conflicting) positions on most issues with: Words don’t matter. Wow, who knew? Apparently, words merely piss off people whose goodwill doesn’t matter, such as our allies in the UK and EU and, well, all over the planet. Drive away your current allies, plus the very
- [Hollywood Fringe Diary](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/hollywood-fringe-diary-2/) - The Fringe Week One Continued... — SUICIDE LIVE From playwright Rick Creese—who’s Bright Star was one of the high points of last year’s Fringe—this new comedy about an estranged father and son whose relationship is so tragically dysfunctional, they’re convinced it’ll make a hit reality show! Featuring Geno Creese, the playwright’s own son, and the talented
- [Hollywood Fringe 2016—](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/hollywood-fringe-2016/) - Well we’re off to the races, Hollywood Fringe 2016 has opened, and here is the first handful of reviews for your consideration. I will be employing the rating scale that should be familiar to my readers: GOLD: These are the “Oh my God!” shows. Leave your rich dying aunt’s bedside, cancel the conference on world
- [Hollywood Fringe Diary Week One—Part IV](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/hollywood-fringe-diary-week-one-part-iv/) - Hollywood Fringe, Week One —Part IV The main stays of any Fringe are the solo performances; one-man shows, one-woman, one-whatever shows. There are a whole slew of them, so I’ve divided them into categories. HISTORICAL/BIO SOLO SHOWS BLOODY BEAUTIFUL Another presentation of the Proboscis Company, featuring Erica Flor as Countess Elizabeth Báthory (1560-1614) Hungarian noblewoman
- [Of Tantrums and Teleprompters](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/of-tantrums-and-teleprompters/) - Ironic, isn’t it? We’ve endured eight years of haters excoriating Barack Obama for his use of teleprompters, and a year of repeated tirades by Trump himself. But finally—at long last—on the night of the June 7 California primary, Donald Trump found himself attempting to project legitimacy by—wait for it—reading a speech off a teleprompter. I’ll set
- [Punch and Judy get it on](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/punch-and-judy-get-it-on-at-the-hollywood-fringe/) - Henry Mayhew, in 1841, named his pioneering humor magazine after the gleeful little murdering bastard. Neil Gaiman sought him out to use in one of his best graphic novels. Him and the Missus are clues in the 2014 thriller Gone Girl, and in the Marx Brothers’ 1931 Monkey Business Harpo joins them in a performance.
- [Office Beat: A Tap Dance Comedy—](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/office-beat-a-tap-dance-comedy/) - Office Beat: A Tap Dance Comedy playing now at 2016's Hollywood Fringe: A review... As conceived by Mindy and Gabe Copeland with original music by Andrew Van Vlear, Office Beat is a tale of office politics and labor unrest told completely without dialogue. Well without spoken dialogue that is, but there’s plenty of snappy repartee
- [Amy Snowden takes on the Casting Couch](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/amy-snowden-takes-on-the-casting-couch/) - Hollywood Fringe 2016 is better than ever and continues on for two more weeks: dance, artistry, plays. There's also plenty of comedy at the Fringe in Hollywood. Case in point... Amy Snowden (above) grew up in rural Louisiana where squirrel was often hunted for dinner and a visit to the K-Mart something to phone neighbors about.
- [Hollywood Fringe 2016 Dairy—](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/hollywood-fringe-2016-dairy/) - For the Hollywood Fringe 2016, I employ a rating scale that should be familiar to my readers. For newcomers, I've inserted the scale below. GOLD: These are the “Oh my God!” shows. Leave your rich dying aunt’s bedside, cancel the conference on world peace at the U.N., and tell Rhianna or Chris Hemsworth, “Sorry Sweetie, not
- [Things that go 'Bump in the Night'](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/things-that-go-bump-in-the-night/) - Bump in the Night – Tales of Monsters and Fools (Hollywood Fringe 2016) sets up as a parody of those annoying supernatural reality shows such as Monster Quest, Finding Bigfoot, Destination Truth or Ghost Hunters. The team on this venture looking for the werewolf-arachnid of East Hamburg, New Jersey is a jumble of personalities right out of
- [Sexy Maus, Hearts and Bombs join Voices at the Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/sexy-maus-hearts-and-bombs-join-voices-at-the-fringe/) - VOICES According to the program notes, voiceover artist Carla Delaney wrote this one woman show as a birthday gift to herself, and if that’s true it’s a better gift than a pony. Voices is just about everything a solo show should be, personal and universal, funny and sad, familiar and unique, with a solid and
- [Squeeze My Cans goes for the Gold at the Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/squeeze-my-cans-goes-for-the-gold-at-the-fringe/) - Wow. That’s about the most apropos comment across the board on Squeeze My Cans, Cathy Schenkelberg’s riveting, heart wrenching and ultimately redeeming tale of her decade plus involvement with Scientology. Wow to the account of her descent into the Kafkaesque universe of L. Ron Hubbard’s “religion” that first seeks to entice and then consume all
- ['Mark Twain' 'A Horse' and 'Shkreli'](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/mark-twain-a-horse-and-shkreli/) - A HORSE WITH A VIEW Last year Christopher Piehler delighted audiences with Reserve Champion, an autobiographical tale of how as a young boy he fell in love with horses. That love affair continues in A Horse with a View, a quartet of tales in which women break his heart and horses heal it. Piehler tells
- [HOW TO BE A VIRGIN (in 12 morally ambiguous steps):](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/how-to-be-a-virgin-in-12-morally-ambiguous-steps/) - HOW TO BE A VIRGIN (IN 12 MORALLY AMBIGUOUS STEPS) At the outset of Carla Neuss’ smart and very witty play we are shown a graph that places the number of those who remain virgins after the age of twenty-five at two percent of the population. We’re told this is the same percentage as those
- [THE CONUNDRUM OF CONCEPT:](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/the-conundrum-of-concept/) - A USEFUL LIFE IN C MAJOR David Wheatley has four degrees in music and composition. He has an impressive background in stage musicals, has scored film and television. He is an amazingly, talented individual. Unfortunately he has one great failing. He’s Canadian. And when I say, “He’s Canadian,” what I actually mean is he’s “Canadian.”
- [The Delight of Bumpersticker:](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/the-delight-of-bumpersticker-the-musical/) - BUMPERSTICKER: THE MUSICAL Gary Stockdale and Spencer Green make musicals that are truly great fun. This was true of Bukowsical, a songfest based on the life and work of Charles Bukowski, the alcoholic poet laureate of L.A.’s downtown alleys; who had a face that looked like it was once set on fire and that fire
- [The Second Week of Fringe —](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/the-second-week-of-fringe-the-down-and-dirty/) - Well on here I am: Hollywood Fringe Show number forty-five now and here’s a just a recap of some of the shows seen: 50 SHADES OF SHAKESPEARE What was most surprising to me I admit was finding the combination here of great acting, great fun and great Shakespeare. You walk into the Three Clubs Venue
- [Trump’s October Surprise—in June](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/trumps-october-surprise-in-june/) - The incident that actually coined the phrase "October Surprise" came when Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, lied just days before the 1972 presidential election that “peace is at hand” regarding the widely unpopular Vietnam War. It wasn’t. The statement was designed to injure Nixon’s opponent George McGovern. It did. The past couple of
- [Two By The Proboscis Theatre Company: Bloody Beautiful and Strap-On](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/two-by-the-proboscis-theatre-company-bloody-beautiful-and-strap-on/) - One of the high points for me in Fringe 2015 was the Proboscis Theatre Company’s La La La Strada! An investigation of the creative process, using the making of Fellini’s classic film La Strada as the focal point. This year they offered two productions... BLOODY BEAUTIFUL There are two very interesting tales in Bloody Beautiful;
- [The Last of the Fringe 2016 Round Ups](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/the-last-of-the-fringe-2016-round-ups/) - Well Hollywood Fringe 2016 has come to a close and with it comes the last of the Round Ups... Read on.... BIN LADEN: THE ONE MAN SHOW Sam Redway is a 5’6” endearing presence, Bin Laden was a 6’4” fanatic of Athari Islam who denounced fornication outside marriage, gambling, the use of intoxicants, homosexuality
- [Hollywood Fringe Diary 2016: The Final Tally!!](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/hollywood-fringe-diary-2016-the-final-tally/) - Well another Fringe has come and gone. I attended 60 shows and managed to review 55 (denoted by the asterisk: “*”), and I must say there were some gems. So here is my final call, including those shows that ranked as Platinum. Congratulation to all who worked and sweated and gave it their all to
- [A “Discomfiture of Riches” at The Fringe at Last!!](https://thetvolution.com/2016/06/a-discomfiture-of-riches-at-the-fringe-at-last/) - Now I’ll be honest here, I thought this year’s Fringe started out slow. Well, at least it did for me. Nor did I come across shows of any great merit, at first. Hell, I even started wearing my Saint Genesius medal! But when that dam did break (thank you Chris and Jen) then the flood
- [Best of the Fringe: The TVolution Take](https://thetvolution.com/2016/07/best-of-the-fringe-the-tvolution-take/) - For a complete medal tally for all 60 viewed by this contributor see click HERE. Below is a The TVolution Category Best of Fringe 2016 breakdown and be sure to check the Fringe schedule below to see if a show you missed has been extended! BEST OF THE FRINGE: PUNCH AND JUDY BEST COMEDY: THE
- [To Colin and Others...](https://thetvolution.com/2016/07/to-colin-and-others/) - This is a thank you to Colin Johnson my stage manager on My Alamo War. Colin helped set the stage, made the preshow announcement, lit the show, ran the lights, helped clear the stage, worked box office, recovered lost items, and a bunch of other things as well. But first and foremost Colin, with his
- [All Voters Are Not Created Equal](https://thetvolution.com/2016/07/all-voters-are-not-created-equal/) - …and the biggest problem with democracy is that every damn fool gets one vote. You heard me right. The metric I’m using to judge my fellow man is information. An informed voter understands the choices being offered in the voting booth, and is savvy enough to balance intellect with heart when marking the ballot. I
- [The Issue is Still Guns](https://thetvolution.com/2016/07/the-issue-is-still-guns/) - Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile told the officer who shot them, “I have a gun.” They may have thought that giving out this information would protect them. Instead, it cost them their lives. Instead of conveying the intended message don’t be alarmed when you see my gun, it immediately became a neon strobe. And
- [Lolita, Daisy, Ophelia: Three Iconic Women Unraveled and Revealed](https://thetvolution.com/2016/07/lolita-daisy-ophelia-three-iconic-women-unraveled-and-revealed/) - It is not with eyes alone that we read a novel’s passage or play’s scene; we read them through the grinded lens of culture and the glass of moment. Some times these “bi-focals” bring the matter read into a startling clarity never appreciated before, with new aspects revealed. On other occasions we may find the
- [The Elephants in the Room](https://thetvolution.com/2016/07/the-elephants-in-the-room/) - The old elephants in the room for Republicans—racism, sexism, disdain for the poor (to name a few)—are no longer invisible or whispered, and thus no longer fit that idiom’s prime characteristics. Donald Trump has been shouting these prejudices for over a year now, and encouraging his disciples to act them out. He shouted them yet
- [Four Chords and a Gun — The Ferocity of Musical Genius Mined](https://thetvolution.com/2016/07/four-chords-and-a-gun-the-ferocity-of-musical-genius-mined/) - Four Chords and a Gun at the Bootleg Theater, which relates the stories of when The Ramones worked with Phil Spector on recording their End of the Century album, is scary. Now the story of anyone working with Phil Spector, (legendary music producer of “Be My Baby,” “Stand By Me,” and “My Sweet Lord,” now
- [Life, Art and Musical Theatre — Grey Gardens](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/life-art-and-musical-theatre-grey-gardens/) - 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 successful adaptations from odd starts. Stephen Sondheim has made a career crafting shows from subject matter that hardly seems suitable for orchestras and chorus lines — the history of presidential assassinations
- [Soaring Speeches, Muttered Protests](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/soaring-speeches-muttered-protests/) - Actually, “muttered” does no justice to the chanting and booing that echoed like city noise down an abandoned alleyway as the Democratic party machine rolled over Berniacs to nominate Hillary Clinton. And I get it. Forty percent of the delegates at the Democratic National Convention were elected to support Bernie on the first ballot. You
- [Tennessee Williams' "Kingdom of Earth" Calls Out](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/tennessee-williams-kingdom-of-earth-calls-out/) - Never start off your career with a masterpiece. Where do you go from there? Known in some circles as the Joseph Kesselring Curse (as in Arsenic and Old Lace which was then followed by ten flops), Tennessee Williams compounded on this by starting his career with a slew of masterpieces – The Glass Menagerie, A
- [Trump Steps in His Own Vomit](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/trump-steps-in-his-own-vomit/) - …and tracks it all over our political kitchen floor! Not that the place was spotless to begin… This edition was supposed to be about the stories that disappear as quickly as they happen—most notably Donald Trump’s frequent assaults on civility and sanity that are instantly overshadowed by the next assaults. They have become daily, demonstrating
- [Wicked + Glee = One of the Nice Ones](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/wicked-glee-one-of-the-nice-ones/) - Do not be fooled by the title, One of the Nice Ones. There is nothing “nice” about Erik Patterson’s play. Point of fact, it is relentless in its anti-niceness. Think your typical office politics row only with Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken taking turns holding a .45 to their temples in a Saigon gambling
- [A Brilliant Case of Idiocy](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/a-brilliant-case-of-idiocy/) - I can’t tell if Donald Trump is brilliant or an idiot—and maybe he’s both. On Monday, August 8th, he trotted out his economic plan: another alleged campaign reset focusing on actual issues. When the speech was announced days before, columnist and MSNBC talking head Eugene Robinson wondered humorously how long it would be before Trump
- [Agatha Raisin: Acorn TV's Newest Diva Detective](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/agatha-raisin-acorn-tvs-newest-diva-detective/) - Acorn TV’s most recent original dramedy: the small-village, untrained, but good at crime solving diva, Agatha Raisin.
- [Los Angeles History—The Backbone of ‘Blueprint for Paradise’](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/los-angeles-history-the-backbone-of-blueprint-for-paradise/) - Playwright Laurel M. Wetzork has filled Blueprint for Paradise, now playing at the Hudson Theatre, with fascinating tidbits plucked from Los Angeles and Southern California history. The ruins of Hitler’s California “White House,” the first African-American to be granted membership in the American Institute of Architects, the presence of the Silver Legion in the state,
- [D Deb Debbie Deborah: A West Coast Premiere](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/d-deb-debbie-deborah-a-west-coast-premiere/) - I hate writing bad reviews. Honest. I’d rather write glowing reviews, pouring forth accolades and singing praises to high heaven. I truly would. Now there are two exceptions to this ‘I hate,’ etcetera business. If the play is a deceitful con job that has duped the innocent and the ignorant, while insulting my intelligence, then
- [Celebrating 'Pol Pot's Birthday'](https://thetvolution.com/2016/09/celebrating-pol-pots-birthday/) - The Goodwill store outlets are a treasure trove for the adventurous DVD hunter. After extended practice I can breeze through the stacks of offerings like I was Summa Cum Laude at the Evelyn Woods Speed Reading University. My practiced eyes are trained to waft over the glut of Jack Black films and the piles of
- [Your Choice: Wings or a Raincoat?](https://thetvolution.com/2016/09/your-choice-wings-or-a-raincoat/) - I’m wondering how I will suit up for the coming debates. No need to choose. I’ll don wings and a raincoat. And carry a snow shovel. What about you? I’ll set it up for you with two of my favorite quotes: “The bullshit piled up so fast, you needed wings to stay above it.” —Martin
- [The Extension of Anaïs — A Dance Opera](https://thetvolution.com/2016/09/the-extension-of-anais-a-dance-opera/) - Anaïs Nin’s life and legacy has had more ups and downs than a pogo stick competition at a school for hyper-active youths. Critical appraisal of her works Delta of Venus, Little Birds and others was usually vicious and largely dismissive most of her life. When her novel, Spy In The House of Love, came out
- [The Rise of a ‘Baby Doll’](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/the-rise-of-a-baby-doll/) - Well, what with the solid production at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble of the seldom seen Kingdom of Earth, and now the Fountain Theatre’s staging of Baby Doll, hard core fans of Tennessee Williams must be thinking they’ve died and gone for gumbo in the bayou. Now myself I’m inclined, on both productions, to echo the
- [Is Hillary Honest, or Merely Trustworthy?](https://thetvolution.com/2016/08/is-hillary-honest-or-merely-trustworthy/) - Is Hillary honest? Does she lie? That seems an odd issue for the Trump camp to obsess about, considering the painfully obvious lies coming from their hero daily. But accusations from Democrats about Trump seem just as hypocritical. Less than a day after FBI Director James Comey held his “no charges for Hillary, but…” press
- [Tribal Council Time](https://thetvolution.com/2016/09/tribal-council-time/) - I haven’t teased you with a Survivor metaphor in months. Well, the last time someone got voted off the island was in June. We’ve been down to the final two ever since then and finally, the remaining time is short. In the final Tribal Council of a Survivor season, the two remaining contestants each address the group to explain
- [Why Hamilton is Historic—Part II](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/why-hamilton-is-historic-part-ii/) - 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 managed to make American history 1) hot-blooded and 2) cool – at the same time! A third jewel in Mr. Miranda’s crown of achievements is this: he’s brought Broadway back into
- [Blueberry Toast at Echo Theater Company](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/blueberry-toast-at-echo-theater-company/) - It was rather fitting that on the night of the first presidential debate I found myself sitting in the audience, lean as it was, for The Echo Theater Company’s staging of Mary Laws’ Blueberry Toast. Like The China Syndrome—the 1979 Jane Fonda thriller about corruption and safety cover-ups at a nuclear power plant, which was
- [We Should ALL Kneel During the Anthem](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/we-should-all-kneel-during-the-anthem/) - Is anyone still criticizing quarterback Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem? “Some people say” that his actions are not a protest but disrespect for the American flag. I’ll tell you my view of disrespect for the flag: police killing unarmed citizens. Now that we have legalized open carry in so many states, I’ll
- [Drama Queens from Hell—A Comedic Offering from Playwright Peter Lefcourt](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/drama-queens-from-hell-a-comedic-offering-from-playwright-peter-lefcourt/) - Full disclosure: I am not a fan of the shows of playwright Peter Lefcourt and director Terri Hanauer. Their prior productions, such as The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: A Comedy and Café Society, have struck me as style blatantly masquerading as substance, with more money than thought going into either undertaking. I admit my reviews
- [A View From the Bridge at the Ahmanson—Worth the Wait…](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/a-view-from-the-bridge-at-the-ahmanson-worth-the-wait/) - Ivo Van Hove’s production now at the Ahmanson has worked through both London and New York with great triumph.
- [Soaring 'Skullduggery' at Sacred Fools Theater Company](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/soaring-skullduggery-at-sacred-fools-theater-company/) - 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 he composed the music, provided the lyrics and wrote the book for this – wait for it! Musical prequel to Hamlet! Creatively speaking, that’s
- [The Trump Train Jumps the Rails](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/the-trump-train-jumps-the-rails/) - The train metaphor was spot-on when Trump was unstoppable. And it would be easy to call what’s happening now a train wreck. But really, there were never any rails. Rails imply planning, and an actual destination. So I’m imagining his campaign as an ATV driven recklessly over uneven dusty hills. The Donald has eschewed brakes
- [Politics 101](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/politics-101/) - Donald Trump knew that he lost the third debate long before it was over. As he seems to know, finally, that he will lose the election that is not yet over. The debate (like the election) was stacked against him. And by Fox News! You could read the rage over all that on his face,
- [Deplorables—Making a Case for the Baskets](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/deplorables-making-a-case-for-the-baskets/) - A lot of attention is being given to that first basket, the “basket of deplorables,” as Mrs. Clinton called it and, in so doing, started a small fire storm.
- ['Nosferatu' at Crown City this All Hallows' Eve Season](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/nosferatu-at-crown-city-this-all-hallows-eve-season/) - I really love theatre that boldly goes where no ensemble has gone before. In the past William A. Reilly and Gary Lamb of Crown City Theatre Company have proven that they are capable of pushing the envelope with firm resolve. Whenever speaking of the best of L.A. stage, I summon up their daring and thoughtful production
- [A Rising Tide Obscures All Details](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/a-rising-tide-obscures-all-details/) - “Drumpf – that’s the sound of shit hitting the wall, and sticking.” — a tweet from @slothlax A couple of weeks ago, Donald Trump was urging us all to check out a former Miss Universe’s non-existent sex tape. How ironic that the recording we finally got was his. Okay, it was just a talking about
- ['The Tragedy of JFK' and Shakespeare Intertwined](https://thetvolution.com/2016/11/the-tragedy-of-jfk-and-shakespeare-intertwined/) - The Tragedy of JFK (as told by Wm. Shakespeare) is cleverly conceived, beautifully acted and stylishly staged. (If this review is used by the producers in their press releases it’s this point at which they’ll stop.) It is also bull s**t of the highest order. What adapter and director Daniel Henning has done, and done
- [Make the Cartoon Campaign Stop!](https://thetvolution.com/2016/11/make-the-cartoon-campaign-stop/) - A few weeks back, Molly Ball wrote in the Washington Post about the 2016 Presidential Campaign’s “…rich irony that America's first woman to head a major-party ticket finds herself running against the cartoon of masculinity, the parody of machismo, that is Trump. On the other hand, it might not be a coincidence at all.” Earlier
- [Who Rigged the Election? Everyone](https://thetvolution.com/2016/11/who-rigged-the-election-everyone/) - The movie Jurassic Park removed an intriguing side plot from Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name, that I think applies directly to the election. In the book, the island’s computer-controlled surveillance of dinosaurs failed to detect an unexpected increase in their population. That was because the computer knew (i.e., was told by its programmers) exactly how
- [The Legacy of McDonagh's 'Beauty Queen of Leenane'](https://thetvolution.com/2016/11/the-legacy-of-mcdonaghs-beauty-queen-of-leenane/) - Irish playwright Martin McDonagh speaks fluent Grand Guinol, but speaks it with the lilt of Galway. The importance of this has more resonance than, at first, one might realize. There’s an old axiom which is presently leaving the airy realm of proverbs for the more solid firmament of fact – Ireland was England’s first colony,
- [Supernatural Season 10](https://thetvolution.com/2014/10/supernatural-season-10/) - I've turned so many people on to this show and have never heard any regrets. The best is my brother Eric. We share many of the same proclivities when it comes to our TV likes and dislikes. He's as addicted to the brothers and their never-ending hunter's life as I am. Glad Castiel (Misha Collins)
- ['Game of Thrones' Season 5 is Coming](https://thetvolution.com/2015/02/game-of-thrones-season-5-is-coming/) - Game of Thrones Season 5 is coming. It's time to prepare. Take a look to see glimpses of interactions... and fragments of conversation with hints of heated battles. Prepare for a slathering of layer upon layer of visual candy for the eye; enough to get tongues wagging and the rumor mill churning. Take a look:
- [Game of Thrones, S 5 (HBO)](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/game-of-thrones-s-5-hbo/) - In the real world April means springtime and showers. In HBO time, it means winter is coming. In the land of Westeros, summers often span decades, but winters… winters can last a lifetime. The Clash of Kings (Season 2) started a war that may last so long those who were but children are now primed to
- [Orphan Black Season 3](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/orphan-black-season-3/) - It's nearly here... Springtime TV Madness! Orphan Black Season 3 premieres April 18th and BBC America has just released a first-look trailer. It doesnt' take much for Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) to rev up full throttle. But anyone who knows her would say ... never threaten her sisters and never-ever threaten Felix or Kira. Here she is
- [Arya Comes of Age](https://thetvolution.com/2015/03/arya-comes-of-age-in-game-of-thrones/) - Arya now: "She could feel the hole inside her every morning when she woke. It wasn't hunger, though sometimes, there was that too. It was a hollow place. An emptiness where her heart had been. Where her brothers had lived... and her parents." George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords—Book
- [Ballers: The Reinvention of a Man (The Trailer)](https://thetvolution.com/2015/05/ballers-the-reinvention-of-a-man-the-trailer/) - Who wouldn't be excited to see what the producing team, who gifted viewers with the much lauded Entourage, has in store for a show involving the game of good ole' American football? Ballers, the HBO half-hour series kicks off its ten-episode run June 21, 10pm ET/PT. The theme: Former football super legend, Spencer Strassmore, (Dwayne
- [Go "Inside Out"](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/go-inside-out/) - Pete Docter began Inside Out with a seedling of an idea, after he noticed the transition that his adolescent daughter Elle was going through. Elle had voiced the young girl Ellie in the Academy Award winner, Up. Ellie was a “spirited, spunky kid with hair out to there,” Docter shared. “My daughter... was a lot
- [Game of Thrones Season 6 Teaser...](https://thetvolution.com/2015/12/game-of-thrones-season-6-teaser/) - The question, for all (or it should be) GOT viewers: Will the Snow 'who knows nothing' return? HBO’s just released promotional trailer does the name "Teaser" justice, as it dangles Jon, in all his glory, tantalizingly close to our noses. But in the words of the great Jackie Gleason: “How sweet it is...!” And yeah... welcome
- [The Top Twelve TV Shows of 2015 and Why...](https://thetvolution.com/2016/01/the-top-twelve-tv-shows-of-2015-and-why/) - You don’t have to be paying rapt attention to the 50-inch rectangular flat screen hanging above the fireplace or the 40-incher placed, discreetly, in the corner of the office or even the 24-inch attached to the underside of the kitchen cabinet to know that this is the Golden Age of Television. How do we know
- [Something That I Learned  From Someone I Know](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/something-that-i-learned/) - Sometimes, someone posts something on Facebook that is of intrinsic value. The following thought-piece—published here with the author’s permission—is such a post. I was going to write an introductory paragraph and then came to the realization that Doug Kulow’s essay says it all so eloquently. So instead, I’ll simply say thank you to Doug for
- [Bosch—Why the Time is Ripe for Harry](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/bosch-why-the-time-is-ripe-for-harry/) - Summary: Streaming detective show Bosch, based on the long-running (17 and counting) popular series by author, Michael Connelly, doesn’t stray far from the literary franchise. Bosch novels: Concrete Blonde, City of Bones and The Black Echo were core to the construction of Season 1. The series’ al dente tag line foretells what's in store: Every
- [In The Flesh: The First Four Minutes](https://thetvolution.com/2014/05/in-the-flesh-the-first-four-minutes/) - Last year, I wrote that In The Flesh was not your typical zombie apocalyptic tale. Those of you who watched the three part mini-series know that to be true. Season one did a lot of exploring in a thoughtfully entertaining way. But time has passed. BBC America has released the first four minutes of season
- [Rectify Day One (Video)](https://thetvolution.com/2014/06/rectify-day-one-video/) - Rectify creator Ray McKinnon had a seed of an idea: "I was just interested in the life of a man who's been in a box primarily for the last twenty years, for twenty-four hours a day and then what it would be like to be let out in the big wide world." Meet Daniel Holden...
- [Rectify: Season One, Day Two (Video)](https://thetvolution.com/2014/06/rectify-season-one-day-two-video/) - The peaceful dawning has come and gone. This day is like a long breath of air that has been held for quite some time. The citizen's of Paulie have been waiting far too long to exhale... Here's Creator Ray McKinnon on season one, day two of Rectify: https://youtu.be/PtzqGtNKV6g During Daniel's conversation with Tawny
- [Rectify—Season One, Day Four (Video)](https://thetvolution.com/2014/06/rectify-season-one-day-four-video/) - For Daniel Holden, danger lurks not just behind shadows, but in the harsh light of day; often prancing down the middle of Main Street, in broad daylight,. Still, in the southern town of Paulie, in the midst of all the intrigue, daily life goes on. By day four it remains unclear whether Daniel Holden is guilty
- [The Premiere of HBO’s The Leftovers...](https://thetvolution.com/2014/06/the-premiere-of-hbos-the-leftovers/) - The Leftovers jumps deep into a mass of angst gurgling inside nearly everyone 'left' untouched after what may have been The Rapture swept the planet and 2% of the world's population disappeared without a trace. If not tormented, people are in denial, if not in denial, they're in a cult. There are personal hells-a-plenty to
- [The Walking Dead's New Monster in Town](https://thetvolution.com/2014/09/the-walking-deads-new-monster-in-town/) - There's a lot of hot to the touch TV to watch these days. Only a few shows on the buzzed about TV listings actually make my mouth water with anticipation when gearing up for their season or mid-season return: one is Game of Thrones. With only ten episodes a season, Thrones leaves me wasted and
- [For 'The Knick' Fact Plus Fiction Equals Darn Good Drama](https://thetvolution.com/2014/08/for-the-knick-fact-plus-fiction-equals-darn-good-drama/) - Mrs. Elizabeth Handy, wife to the “Father of the Blues” W. C. Handy, lay critically ill on the street outside the doors of the Knickerbocker Hospital while the staff debated whether or not she should be admitted, her being a Negro and all. A financial compromise was reached when Handy forked over $36.00 for a
- [Salting the Battlefield Winds up The Worricker Trilogy (PBS)](https://thetvolution.com/2014/11/salting-the-battlefield-winds-up-the-worricker-trilogy-pbs/) - When the bar is set as high as writer/director David Hare and thespian extraordinaire Bill Nighy (yes, I am biased) set it in Page Eight, Part I of The Worricker Trilogy, it takes more than a couple of running starts to stick the landing. I continue to appreciate Hare's love of the subtle, but was
- [The Man in the High Castle: A 2-Episode Sneak Peak](https://thetvolution.com/2015/10/the-man-in-the-high-castle-a-2-episode-sneak-peak/) - Summary: What would it be like? It’s 1962, fifteen years after the end of World War II and the ultimate question is posed: What would the world...more to the point—what would America look like if the Axis powers had won the war instead of the Allied nations? First Take: Hot, Warm, Tepid, Cool or Frostbite? The
- [Hollywood Fringe 2015 Medal Count...](https://thetvolution.com/2015/06/hollywood-fringe-2015-medal-count-2/) - THE PLATINUM MEDALS: BRIGHT SWORDS THE LEGEND OF BOBBY DARIN: AN UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY SIMON CORONEL: GLITCHES IN REALITY TIANANMEN ANNIE NO TRAVELER: A COMEDY ABOUT SUICIDE THE GOLD MEDALS: ANNABELLA BOOZE, BALLS AND BLUEGRASS THE DEVIL YOU SAY RESERVE CHAMPION REVOLUTIONARY LOVE THE THREE MUSKETEERERS: CLOWNS WITH SWORDS THE BRONZE MEDALS: FIFTY SHADES OF SHREW
- [15 Worst TV Shows Ever](https://thetvolution.com/2016/09/15-worst-tv-shows-ever/) - When the topic turns to the worst series ever, one is walking a tightrope of wet tissue.
- [It’s ‘Blueberry Toast’ For A Matchless Halloween Experience](https://thetvolution.com/2016/10/its-blueberry-toast-for-a-matchless-halloween-experience-extended-through-october-29/) - On the hunt for a different sort of dark-doing this Halloween? Look no further than the Echo Theater Company’s production of Blueberry Toast at Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles.

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## Events

- [HFF23 Extensions](https://thetvolution.com/event/hollywood-fringe-extensoins/) - The Hollywood Fringe Festival Extensions have begun!! June 29 thru July 06, 2023 Don't miss seeing the final performances of HFF23. Ticket Prices and Venues Vary Check Fringe Website for More Ext. .****
- [The 28th Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-28th-los-angeles-womens-theatre-festival/) - SAVE THE DATES! THE 28TH ANNUAL LOS ANGELES WOMEN’S THEATRE FESTIVAL AND STILL WE RISE! IS COMING MARCH 25- MARCH 30 _________________________________ Last March, the Annual Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival was just two weeks away from opening when we were forced to postpone because of the emerging coronavirus pandemic, which shuttered live performance venues
- [BOSTON COURT BOOK CLUB](https://thetvolution.com/event/boston-court-book-club/) - Each month (Boston Court Book Club) will read a play that is vitally relevant to something happening in our world today and then have a casual community conversation about the script and the story.
- [Long Beach Opera Announces 2021 “Season of Solidarity”.](https://thetvolution.com/event/long-beach-opera-announces-2021-season-of-solidarity/) - Long Beach Opera announces four productions for its 2021 “Season of Solidarity.” The season will bring together some of today’s most adventurous and collaborative thinkers on the contemporary music scene.
- [TRIBECA DRIVE-IN Initial Schedule for Summer Series](https://thetvolution.com/event/tribeca-drive-in-announces-initial-schedule-for-summer-series/) - Tribeca Drive-In's Summer Series will take place each weekend (Thursdays thru Sundays) throughout the summer, from July 2, 2020 through August 2, 2020.
- [10th Anniversary of 'Inception'](https://thetvolution.com/event/10th-anniversary-of-inception/) - Warner Bros. Pictures to re-release of Christopher Nolan's "Inception" in Theaters July 17.
- [Warner Bros. to Release Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet'](https://thetvolution.com/event/warner-bros-to-release-christopher-nolans-tenet/) - WBP to Release Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" July 31 and Special 10th Anniversary Re-release of Nolan's "Inception" in Theaters July 17 (Burbank, CA)
- [School Girls on VOD: Limited Run, Streaming Now](https://thetvolution.com/event/school-girls-vod/) - Goodman Theatre Streams School Girls Don’t miss this “nasty-teen comedy, wonderfully refreshed and deepened” (The New York Times) that spotlights the universal similarities—and glaring differences—of teenage girls around the globe. This biting and buoyant comedy, “ferociously entertaining, as heartwarming as it is hilarious” (The Hollywood Reporter) arrives on the heels of a critically acclaimed, extended run Off-Broadway. (Goldstar) Just
- [Healing:After The Tragedy](https://thetvolution.com/event/healingafter-the-tragedy/) - Described as "A must see play! It captures the true definition of being victorious and overcoming life's tragedies." Healing After The Tragedy follows Creator/Performer Nesha Wonderland's journey revealing the 5 different ages and eras of her life, that nourished her individual journey of healing by faith in Jesus Christ; after suffering with the bereavement trauma
- [Sound Baths at the BE Energy Center](https://thetvolution.com/event/sound-baths-at-the-be-energy-center/) - Upcoming Sound Baths at the BE Energy Center
- ["Screwball Comedy"](https://thetvolution.com/event/theatre-40-the-award-winning-professional-theatre-company-in-beverly-hills-announces-its-fifty-third-season/) - Theatre 40, the award-winning professional theatre company in Beverly Hills, begins its fifty-third season with the premiere of "Screwball Comedy."
- ["Death And Life Of Mary Jo Kopechne" Extended](https://thetvolution.com/event/death-and-life-of-mary-jo-kopechne-extended/) - "The Death and Life of Mary Jo Kopechne" tells the story of an American tragedy from the point of view of the victim – a young woman who became famous one night in 1969 when the car she was in plunged off a bridge on Martha’s Vineyard on the way back from a midnight tryst on the beach.
- [Free Event at Brand Park](https://thetvolution.com/event/free-event-at-brand-park/) - "The Tempest" (1611) is popularly believed to be the final piece written for the stage under the sole authorship of William Shakespeare. Some people think he saved the best for last.
- ["Papa"](https://thetvolution.com/event/papa/) - A young man raised by adoptive parents begins to hunt for his biological parents, and discover that his possible biological dad may be living in a home for the mentally challenged.
- ["Hell Mountain"](https://thetvolution.com/event/hell-mountain/) - A young reporter falls prey to a mysterious ailment after investigating an abandoned house; a place known for tales of missing children and possible cannibalism where local teens dare each other to sneak in and poke around.
- ["Citizen Clark"](https://thetvolution.com/event/citizen-clark/) - This feature documentary details former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark's lifetime commitment to justice and human rights. As the highest law enforcement officer of the land under LBJ, Clark supervised the drafting and the passage of the Voting Rights act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, two key milestones in the history of the United States.
- ["Our House"](https://thetvolution.com/event/our-house/) - In "Our House," a young genius accidentally invents a device that amplifies the paranormal activity within his family's house, possibly bringing back the spirits of loved ones, and unleashing things far worse.
- ["Le Viol" French Drama Streaming Now...](https://thetvolution.com/event/le-viol-french-drama-streaming-now/) - A timely subject for all Indie and International Filmophiles — TV5MONDE USA presents "Le Viol" ("The Rape"), available for streaming, beginning July 10th at 3:29 am ET/12:29 am PT. (French / English Subtitles) (Drama, 2017. Film)
- ["À Livre Ouvert," Season 1,  Two-Episode Finale](https://thetvolution.com/event/a-livre-ouvert-season-1-2-episode-finale/) - French movie lovers get ready for TV5MONDE USA’s presentation of "À Livre Ouvert," Season 1, Episodes 5 and 6, available for streaming on Sling TV and other platforms.
- [Méfions-nous des honnêtes gens!](https://thetvolution.com/event/mefions-nous-des-honnetes-gens/) - French movie lovers get ready for TV5MONDE USA's presentation of "Méfions-Nous des Honnêtes Gens!," available for streaming on Sling TV and other venues.
- ["Annie" a Limited Concert at the Bowl](https://thetvolution.com/event/annie-a-limited-concert-at-the-bowl/) - Annie (Hollywood Bowl) the classic story of a young girl overcoming adversity, features a beloved score of hits (including “Tomorrow” and “It’s the Hard Knock Life”) and is a delightful experience for the entire family.
- [](https://thetvolution.com/event/19401/) - The animated drama, "Tehran Taboo," directed by Ali Soozandeh — is now on DVD and available for streaming. (From Kino Lorber)
- ["LA Views X: Sanctuary"](https://thetvolution.com/event/la-views-x-sanctuary/) - In the tenth anniversary of their LA VIEWS play festival, Company of Angels explores the meaning of sanctuary (protection, fairness, equality, and refuge) as played out in the lives of Angelenos.
- ["Skeleton Crew"](https://thetvolution.com/event/skeleton-crew/) - The third installment of Dominique Morisseau’s acclaimed trilogy "The Detroit Project," "Skeleton Crew" follows four co-workers at a Detroit auto factory in 2008.
- [Film Submissions Open for Pan African Film + Arts Festival](https://thetvolution.com/event/film-submissions-open-for-pan-african-film-arts-festival/) - The time has come to submit to America's Largest & Most Prestigious International Black Film Festival!
- ["Defining Hope"](https://thetvolution.com/event/defining-hope/) - The ground-breaking new documentary feature film "Defining Hope" from director Carolyn Jones ("The American Nurse") follows eight patients with life-threatening illness, and the nurses who guide them to make critical choices along the way as they face death, embrace hope, and ultimately redefine what makes life worth living.
- [The Other Side of the Razor Ribbon](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-other-side-of-the-razor-ribbon/) - World Premiere of The Other Side of the Razor Ribbon opens for six shows during the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival at Studio C Theatre (6444 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, 90038) on Wednesday, June 13, 8:30 p.m., Saturday, June 16, noon, Thursday, June 21, 7 p.m., Saturday, June 23, 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 and available at www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4823
- [Eat Like 'Montalbano'](https://thetvolution.com/event/19223/) - Long time Detective Montalbano fans are well acquainted with Salvo’s passion for Sicilian cooking. With the release of new Montalbano feature films on MHz Choice, we thought we’d try something new and offer up some "Montalbano inspired" recipes. Chef Linda Sarris, a professed Montalbano fan and bi-annual resident of Palermo, Italy, crafted this series of delicious recipes that
- [Pump Boys and Dinettes](https://thetvolution.com/event/pump-boys-and-dinettes/) - Get ready to stomp your feet and clap your hands for this countrified musical, the first time this Tony-nominated show has been presented in the Los Angeles area in 30 years!
- ["The Gin Game"](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-gin-game/) - Christian Lebano directs the Sierra Madre Playhouse production of "The Gin Game" providing Los Angeles theater-goers with the opportunity to see exceptional artists stage an intimate classic of the American Theatre.
- [Summer Dance Party Kickoff](https://thetvolution.com/event/summer-dance-party-kickoff/) - A fundraiser for the non-profit South Pasadena Arts Council (SPARC), the "Kickoff to Summer Dance Party," with entertainment by headliner DJ Black Rabbit, will be held at the War Memorial Building in South Pasadena on Saturday, June 16, from 6:30 to 10 p.m.
- [Because You Watched... (A Netflix Exhibit)](https://thetvolution.com/event/because-you-watched-a-netflix-exhibit/) - From the team that brought you your last LOL, WTF, and ugly cry, you’re invited into the world of Netflix.
- [PAFF Institute Presents: The Power of Music in Film/TV](https://thetvolution.com/event/paff-institute-presents-the-power-of-music-in-film-tv/) - “The Power of Music in Film/TV,” the PAFF Institute Summer Series second session, will focus on the integral and essential aspects of music in film and television. The panel will provide insights on what it takes to be a professional in this industry.
- [Filmworker](https://thetvolution.com/event/filmworker/) - It’s a rare person who would give up fame and fortune to toil in obscurity for someone else’s creative vision. Yet, that’s exactly what Leon Vitali did after his acclaimed performance as Lord Bullingdon in Stanley Kubrick’s "Barry Lyndon."
- ["Racing Colt"](https://thetvolution.com/event/racing-colt/) - In the Indie Rights releasing, "Racing Colt," a personal assistant struggles to get an aging "has been" movie star through a tumultuous shoot of a highly anticipated film.
- [On MHz in June—"Montalbano," "Spiral" and...](https://thetvolution.com/event/on-mhz-in-june-montalbano-and/) - Two brand-new feature-length Detective Montalbano movies will premiere this June exclusively on MHz Choice
- [Beyond the Streets Special: June 7 & 8](https://thetvolution.com/event/beyond-the-streets-special-june-7-8/) - Special Event Overview June 7 - 8, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm WERKARTZ: LOS ANGELES For $10 OFF entry Thursday, June 7 and Friday, June 8. Use Code: DiscoverBTS First 400 people receive an 18 x 24 show poster Beyond the Streets is the premier exhibition of graffiti, street art and beyond, celebrating the soaring
- [Mary Shelley](https://thetvolution.com/event/mary-shelley/) - Mary Shelley Biography/Romance. Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour. Written by Emma Jensen and Al-Mansour. Produced by Amy Baer, Ruth Coady, Alan Moloney. From IFC Films. (Color, 2018, U.K./Luxembourg/USA, 120 minutes, rated PG-13) Starring Elle Fanning, Ben Hardy, Maisie Williams, Bel Powley, Douglas Booth, Joanne Froggatt. The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and 18 year old
- [Funeral Day](https://thetvolution.com/event/funeral-day/) - Funeral Day Comedy/Drama Directed by Jon Weinberg Written by Kris Elgstrand Produced by Weinberg, Jesse Alson-Milkman, Ron Butler, Christopher Carley From Arena Cinelounge Releasing. (Color, 2018, USA, 79 minutes, not rated) Starring Tyler Labine, Suzy Nakamura, Jed Rees, Tygh Runyan, Dominic Rains, Kristin Carey Scott, a neurotic young man, thinks he found a lump and
- [Raiders of the Lost Ark](https://thetvolution.com/event/raiders-of-the-lost-ark/) - the event... Raiders of the Lost Ark Directed by Steven Spielberg (1981, 115 minutes) Hollywood Forever Cemetery / $16 Gates at 7:15pm / Movie at 9pm Fabled treasure! Exotic lands! Pack your bullwhip for the greatest cinematic adventure with the one and only Indiana Jones. Travel from Nepal to Cairo as Indy races to get
- [Alien (1979)](https://thetvolution.com/event/alien-1979/) - the event... Alien (1979) Directed by Ridley Scott (1979, 117 minutes) Hollywood Forever Cemetery / $16 gates at 7:15pm / movie at 9pm Ridley Scott’s horror sci-fi classic under the stars! Stunning special effects, moody mise-en-scene and pulse pounding suspense adorn this terrifying and bold masterpiece. When a mysterious signal from an alien planet reaches
- [To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar](https://thetvolution.com/event/to-wong-foo-thanks-for-everything-julie-newmar/) - To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Category is movie goddess glamour! Get gussied up and sashay to the extra special Pride Weekend screening of TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR. Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo serve show-stopping face as three New York City drag queens who open hearts while
- [Benevolence](https://thetvolution.com/event/benevolence/) - Benevolence a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection The destinies of several people are connected across three decades. Written by Hamid Janguard Directed by Andres Palencia Produced by Lisette M. Azar Starring Mason Amdor, James J. Cox, Hamid Janguard, Karrie King, Paul Morris III, Drew Simon, Madison Spear, Faith Streng on Preview Saturday, June 2, 2018 @
- ["26 Pebbles"](https://thetvolution.com/event/26-pebbles/) - Theatre 40, the award-winning professional theatre company in Beverly Hills, announces its fifty-third season. The Fall schedule is as follows: September 20- October 14, 2018. 26 Pebbles. Written by Eric Ulloa Directed by Jules Aaron On December 24, 2012, Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed twenty-six innocent souls before taking his
- [Nephew of the Universe at Hollywood Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/event/nephew-of-the-universe-at-hollywood-fringe/) - Nephew of the Universe takes the audience on a sometimes whimsical, sometimes heart-wrenching journey of artist Rob Bruner’s twenty years in a Queens, New York eastern meditation group--or was it a cult? In this solo performance, Rob tells his story with wit, humor and honesty along with compelling music and visuals. Nephew of the Universe is
- ["Soft Power"](https://thetvolution.com/event/soft-power/) - This "play with a musical," by David David Henry Hwang (music/additional lyrics by Jeanine Tesori), directed by Leigh Silverman and choreographed by Sam Pinkleton, continues through June 10, 2018 at the Ahmanson Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.
- [Jobs Behind The Camera](https://thetvolution.com/event/jobs-behind-the-camera/) - PAFF Institute, the educational arm of the Pan African Film and Arts Festival, has become known for its dynamic slate of panels, workshops and conversations focusing mainly on the latest topics, trends and technology in the film-making arts industry, and, additionally, on subject matter that interests and impacts the community at large...
- [Cuban American Music Festival 2018](https://thetvolution.com/event/cuban-american-music-festival-2018/) - La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, in conjunction with Yambu Productions, has designated Sunday, May 20, 2018 an annual Cuban-American Music Festival. The festival will be a regional destination event that features four musical acts, dancing, local Cuban Artists, Cuban Food and drinks. The festival will take place at La Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown LA. This will mark the second time a successful Cuban festival will be held at a museum.
- [#ServeOurSisters—Los Angeles](https://thetvolution.com/event/serveoursisters-los-angeles/) - May 9, 2018 — "Color Of Change invites you to #ServeOurSisters in Los Angeles on May 19, 2018. Please join us for an afternoon of free delicious food, community, and discussion, as we #ServeOurSisters by creating care packages for women returning from incarceration. In March, Los Angeles became the home of the first Black Women's
- [Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles](https://thetvolution.com/event/charles-bukowskis-los-angeles/) - Discover Los Angeles Invites you to A Literary Tour of Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles by Gustavo Turner (@eyecantina) "Author Charles Bukowski’s work invites us to imagine him as a man alone (or in messy company), sharing a small apartment with a stray cat near L.A.’s Thai Town ‑ drinking and typing his life away. However,
- [The Columbine Project](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-columbine-project/) - "The Columbine Project" returns to L.A. during a time where society needs perspective and solace in regards to gun violence in schools now more than ever.
- [Learn Stage Combat—Hollywood Fringe 2018 Workshop](https://thetvolution.com/event/learn-stage-combat-hollywood-fringe-2018-workshop/) - Learn basic stage combat with award winning fight choreographer Jen Albert. Known for her work in Fringe shows Punch and Judy and Edward the II and 2018’s Hercules Insane. You will learn basic fight skills for the stage in this 2 hour workshop focusing on unarmed combat. From how to throw a proper punch to
- [Hollywood Fringe '18 — Festival Expectations Workshop](https://thetvolution.com/event/hollywood-fringe-18-festival-expectations-workshop/) - The Hollywood Fringe 2018 Festival Expectations Workshop, taking place Saturday, April 21, will consist of an extended Q&A session and stories from a panelist of past participants and veteran community members.
- ["The Chosen"](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-chosen-2/) - Fountain Theatre’s hit production of Chaim Potok’s ‘The Chosen’ gets final extension through June 10
- [LAWTF — Champagne Gala and Awards Ceremony](https://thetvolution.com/event/lawtf-champagne-gala-and-awards-ceremony/) - The longest-running Annual Solo Festival for women in Los Angeles, LAWTF will take place March 29- April 1, 2018 at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Hollywood and at the Electric Lodge in Venice.
- [Women Techmakers](https://thetvolution.com/event/women-techmakers/) - The Women Techmakers Global Event Series Celebrating International Women's Day...
- [Night With Oscar — Free Event!](https://thetvolution.com/event/night-with-oscar-free-event/) - LA Made presents a reading of Night With Oscar, a new comedy play by Drama Desk Award winner and Emmy-nominated writer Eugene Pack (Sharpies, Poets of Amityville)
- [Shuttered (Jonathan Sadler)](https://thetvolution.com/event/shuttered-jonathan-sadler/) - The South Pasadena Arts Council (SPARC) is pleased to present the exhibition Shuttered – Photographs by Jonathan Sadler at SPARC Gallery, located at the South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce on Mission Street.
- [Family Blood](https://thetvolution.com/event/family-blood/) - Horror genre film 'Family Blood' opens March 22 at Arena Cinelounge Sunset.
- [Dear Dictator](https://thetvolution.com/event/dear-dictator/) - "Dear Dictator," starring Michael Caine and, Katie Holmes, opens March 22, 2018, at Arena Cinelounge Sunset.
- [Demon House](https://thetvolution.com/event/demon-house/) - "Demon House" from Freestyle Digital Media — Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans documents the most authenticated case of possession in American history.
- [Allure](https://thetvolution.com/event/allure/) - "Allure" starring Evan Rachel Wood, opens at Arena Cinelounge Sunset, March16: Plagued by the abuse of her past and the turmoil of failed intimate encounters, Laura struggles to find a lover and a sense of normalcy. Her beacon of hope comes in sixteen year-old Eva, a talented pianist disillusioned by the life her mother imposes upon her.
- [The Velaslavasay Panorama at Bob Baker Day 2018!!](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-velaslavasay-panorama-at-bob-baker-day-2018/) - The Velaslavasay Panorama will be present at the BOB BAKER DAY 2018 being celebrated today!! The 4th Annual Celebration of Bob Baker’s ongoing legacy. Let the puppets & the people of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater entertain you with the sights and sounds of a celebration you’ll never forget.
- [I Am Not Your Negro — Screening and Discussion](https://thetvolution.com/event/i-am-not-your-negro-screening-and-discussion/) - “I Am Not Your Negro” — Celebrate Black History Month at a viewing of the film based on James Balwdin’s insightful writings on U.S. race relations. Discussion to follow screening.
- [Denim Doves (extension dates)](https://thetvolution.com/event/denim-doves-extension-dates/) - Sacred Fools Theater Company has added an extra week to the run of its current production of "Denim Doves." Originally scheduled to close February 17, it will now run through February 24 for four additional performances.
- [A Streetcar Named Desire](https://thetvolution.com/event/a-streetcar-named-desire/) - Boston Court Performing Arts Center presents a reimagined modern take of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire.” This radical re-envisioning of “Streetcar” will feature a multicultural cast and modern setting, pushing on the play’s present-day relevance. Previews run February 15 through February 23. Official opening February 24.
- ['Great Expectations' — Limited Event](https://thetvolution.com/event/great-expectations-limited-event/) - The Wallis presents an extraordinary One-Man performance of Charles Dickens’s Classic Tale, Great Expectations; adapted by Kneehigh Founder and Actor David Mynne and Director Simon Harvey.
- [The Chosen](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-chosen/) - The Chosen A silent father, an ancient tradition and an unexpectedly important game of baseball forge bonds of lifelong friendship between two Jewish boys from “five blocks and a world apart” in this funny, poignant, timely and timeless father-son story about recognition and acceptance of “the other.” • Adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok
- [Home, Heartbreak, and Hope — The Japanese American Experience](https://thetvolution.com/event/home-heartbreak-and-hope-the-japanese-american-experience/) - A Discussion with Poet Amy Uyematsu, Dr. Mitchell Maki, President of the Go For Broke Educational Foundation, moderated by author Naomi Hirahara will be presented in connection with the run of the play "Nothing is the Same."
- [Astroglyde 2017](https://thetvolution.com/event/astroglyde-2017/) - Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group's annual holiday production of eight all-new mini-plays embracing truth, terror and titillation!
- [It's A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play](https://thetvolution.com/event/its-a-wonderful-life-the-radio-play/) - Theatre Unleashed is thrilled to once again bring back its celebrated “Naughty and Nice” rep, which includes two of the company’s most popular holiday traditions; "It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play" and "A Very DIE HARD Christmas" at The Belfry Stage in NoHo.
- [A Very Die Hard Christmas](https://thetvolution.com/event/a-very-die-hard-christmas/) - Theatre Unleashed is thrilled to once again bring back its celebrated “Naughty and Nice” rep, which includes two of the company’s most popular holiday traditions; "It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play" and "A Very DIE HARD Christmas" at The Belfry Stage in NoHo.
- [Blood Alley Christmas](https://thetvolution.com/event/blood-alley-christmas/) - Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group proudly presents their All-New 2017 Holiday-Horror-Theater Spectacular in the great Grand Guignol, Theatre of Cruelty and Butoh-Traditions
- [New York Water](https://thetvolution.com/event/new-york-water/) - New York Water Comedy by Samuel Bobrick ("Saved by the Bell") about a couple, hassled by New York, that travels to Iowa and then Hollywood in search of a better life. Howard Teichman directs Ross Benjamin and Bridget Flanery West Coast Jewish Theatre at Pico Playhouse 10508 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064 Show Dates and Times
- [Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily](https://thetvolution.com/event/sherlock-holmes-and-the-case-of-the-jersey-lily/) - "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of The Jersey Lily": Los Angeles Premiere engagement begins at Theatre 40 on November 16.
- [William Shakespeare's “Antony and Cleopatra”](https://thetvolution.com/event/william-shakespeares-antony-and-cleopatra/) - Jamaica Moon Productions and the GGC Players presents William Shakespeare's “Antony and Cleopatra,” directed by Gloria Gifford.
- [Psychopaths](https://thetvolution.com/event/psychopaths/) - "Psychopaths," opening December 1, follows the soul of a recently executed serial killer as it descends back to earth and possesses his many followers beneath the full moon.
- [Music and Song at Theatre 40](https://thetvolution.com/event/music-and-song-at-theatre-40/) - In a Theatre 40 special event, vocalist Mary Normann, accompanied by pianist Jim Furmston, will perform songs by Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, and Anthony Newley this Sunday, November 19.
- [Mr. Roosevelt (Paladin)](https://thetvolution.com/event/mr-roosevelt-paladin/) - Mr. Roosevelt (Comedy From Paladin) Written and directed by Noel Wells Produced by Michael B. Clark, Chris Ohlson, Alex Turtletaub (Color, 2017, USA, 90 minutes, not rated) Starring Noel Wells, Britt Lower, Nick Thune, Daniella Pineda, Andre Hyland, Doug Benson Summary: After a loved one falls ill, struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town
- [Destined (XLrator Media)](https://thetvolution.com/event/destined-xlrator-media/) - Destined (Fantasy — From XLrator Media) Written and directed by Qasim Basir. Produced by Codie Elaine Oliver, Tommy Oliver, Matt Ratner, Rick Rosenthal. (Color, 2017, USA, 95 minutes, not rated) Starring Cory Hardrict, Jesse Metcalfe, Hill Harper, Zulay Henao, Jason Dohring, La La Anthony. Summary: In one world, Rasheed Smith (Cory Hardrict) is a hardened criminal who
- [I Remember You (IFC Midnight)](https://thetvolution.com/event/i-remember-you-ifc-midnight/) - "I Remember You," an IFC Midnight Release, opens November 17, 2017 at Arena Cinelounge, Hollywood's new home for independent films.
- [The Lady With All the Answers](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-lady-with-all-the-answers/) - Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its series of free monthly staged readings of American plays with The Lady With All the Answers Set in 1975, an incident in the life of famed advice columnist Ann Landers is depicted by Ovation award winning actress Gigi Bermingham Written by David Rambo Directed by Cate Caplin. ♦ ♦
- [Dia de los Muertos Street Festival](https://thetvolution.com/event/dia-de-los-muertos-street-festival/) - As part of 24th St Theatre’s Dia de los Muertos Street Festival, the Velaslavasay Panorama will open its panorama and gardens through the evening to the coming and going of festive spirits.
- [Uncover the Moon](https://thetvolution.com/event/uncover-the-moon/) - Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group proudly presents the World Premiere of Susan Chambers' dark and magical coming-of-age tale, "Uncover the Moon". In a twisted town governed by fear and ritual, young Levana is visited by the folkloric "Mad Woman" and is branded with the "curse" of womanhood; Levana is guided by the spirit of the
- [A Map of Virture](https://thetvolution.com/event/a-map-of-virture/) - Erin Courtney’s 2012 Obie Award winning play, A Map of Virtue starts its Los Angeles run at Atwater Village Theatre. Directed by Barker Room Rep founder Mark Sitko, the play “explores coincidence, circumstance and the relationship between people and objects, and examines how the most significant events in our lives can alter the landscape of
- ['Jazz Gumbo' Presented by Black Talkies on Parade](https://thetvolution.com/event/jazz-gumbo-presented-by-black-talkies-on-parade/) - Black Talkies on Parade presents, "Gumbo," the first episode of director Ken Burns’ Jazz series chronicling the fascinating history of the uniquely American musical genre.
- ['Flesh and Blood' New Film from Mark Webber Opens](https://thetvolution.com/event/flesh-and-blood-new-film-from-mark-webber-opens/) - 'Flesh and Blood,' written and directed by Mark Webber, opens October 27 at Laemmle's Monica Film Center, with special appearances opening weekend.
- [This Land](https://thetvolution.com/event/this-land/) - Company of Angels Los Angeles’ Oldest Professional Theater, Debuts This Land by Mexican-American Playwright Evangeline Ordaz This Land is a deep, painful, joyful story that spans 150 years as four families, each with roots in different parts of the world, make their home on the same plot of Southern California land. A host of old
- [31st Israel Film Festival Opening Night Gala](https://thetvolution.com/event/31st-israel-film-festival-opening-night-gala/) - The Israel Film Festival, founded in 1982 by Meir Fenigstein launches year 31 with an Opening Night Gala which includes a VIP reception, award presentations and a screening.
- [The Second Coming of Klaus Kinski](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-second-coming-of-klaus-kinski-2/) - After an Encore Award-winning run at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival, for which it was named “Best of the Fringe” by TVolution, “KINSKI” opens September 29 for a 6-week run, now presented within a ceremonial Kinski sacrarium at The Blank’s Second Stage Theatre.
- [Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino's](https://thetvolution.com/event/bono-and-the-edge-waiting-for-godominos-2/) - The smash hit award-winning comedy from this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival comes to The Whitefire Theatre for a special limited engagement of six Saturday nights at 10PM!
- [Dia de los Muertos — The Legacy of Posada](https://thetvolution.com/event/dia-de-los-muertos-the-legacy-of-posada/) - Hollywood Forever Presents the 18th Annual Dia de los Muertos
- [David Lynch's Festival of Disruption 2017](https://thetvolution.com/event/david-lynchs-festival-of-disruption-2017/) - Curated by David Lynch the Festival of Disruption 2017 is an immersive artistic event. Schedule of events include music, talks, DJs, exhibits and of course films. Proceeds from events support the David Lynch Foundation. Featuring the music of the following artists: BON IVER, THE KILLS, TV ON THE RADIO SHARON VAN ETTEN, LAURA MARLING REGGIE
- [Robert Kirkman’s Secret History Of Comics](https://thetvolution.com/event/robert-kirkmans-secret-history-of-comics/) - The six-part one-hour documentary series takes a deeper look into the stories, people and events that have transformed the world of comic books...
- ["The Gifted" Premieres on Fox Premieres October 2 at 9/8c](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-gifted-premieres-on-fox-premieres-october-2-at-98c/) - Family adventure series "The Gifted," from 20th Century Fox Television in association with Marvel Television, premieres October 2, 9pm 8 Central.
- [The Ugly Duckling](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-ugly-duckling/) - Storybook Theatre presents its award-winning musical "The Ugly Duckling" opening at Theatre West on October 16.
- [A Christmas Story Arrives](https://thetvolution.com/event/a-christmas-story-arrives/) - Come see something different for the holidays this year, as Sierra Madre Playhouse presents "A Christmas Story."
- [World Premiere of "The Marriage Zone" Extension Canceled](https://thetvolution.com/event/world-premiere-of-the-marriage-zone/) - "The Marriage Zone," in performance at Secret Rose Theatre, closes September 24 — October 28 Extension Canceled. Final weekend ends September 24. (See show info below)
- [Deep in the Heart Concert](https://thetvolution.com/event/deep-in-the-heart-concert/) - Deep in the Heart is a Concert to Benefit the AFTRA/SAG Hurricane Relief Fund "The event will be hosted by comedian Wendy Liebman (NBC’s 'America’s Got Talent') and KNBC-TV meteorologist Fritz Coleman. "The idea for the charity event came at the suggestion of one of the owners at Vitello’s Restaurant in Studio City, where Liebman
- [World Premiere Comedy ‘Grey Nomad’](https://thetvolution.com/event/world-premiere-comedy-grey-nomad/) - L.A.’s Australian Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Grey Nomad by Australian playwright Dan Lee in a visiting production at the Skylight Theatre. Directed by Iain Sinclair, Grey Nomad opens on Monday, Sept. 11.
- [Pasadena Greek Fest](https://thetvolution.com/event/pasadena-greek-fest/) - Feast on the Flavors of Greece at the Pasadena Greek Festival, September 22, 23 and 24, 2017...
- [40th Denver Film Festival Announces Impt Dates](https://thetvolution.com/event/40th-denver-film-festival-in-november/) - The Denver Film Society is Proud To Announce its flagship event: the Denver Film Festival, a twelve-day roster of international screenings, red-carpet premieres and awards ceremonies—among them the prestigious Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Best Feature Film, the Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary and the achievement-based John Cassavetes Award.
- [SPARC's  “End of Summer Concert Celebration”](https://thetvolution.com/event/sparcs-end-of-summer-concert-celebration/) - The free 7th Annual “End of Summer Concert Celebration” is on Thursday, September 28th, at 5:00 pm in Library Park at 1115 El Centro Street adjacent to the Farmers’ Market.
- ["Woman in Black" at The Belfry](https://thetvolution.com/event/woman-in-black-at-the-belfry/) - Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt and based on the book by Susan Hill, "The Woman in Black," at Theatre Unleashed, is a chilling classic ghost story in its purest form.
- ['La Razón Blindada' — Winner, Best Production Reprised](https://thetvolution.com/event/la-razon-blindada-winner-best-production-reprised/) - "La Razón Blindada," by Argentinean playwright Arístides Vargas, achieves many things on stage, it is disturbing, hopeful, insightful but more than anything else, it is staggeringly funny. Currently running at the 24th Street Theatre in Los Angeles.
- ["afterlife: a ghost story" in Time for Halloween!](https://thetvolution.com/event/afterlife-a-ghost-story-in-time-for-halloween/) - Collaborative Artists Ensemble is thrilled to present "afterlife: a ghost story," running October 13 to November 12 at The Avery Schreiber Playhouse in North Hollywood as part of the NoHo Fringe Festival.
- ['Til Death Do Us Part- Late Nite Catechism.](https://thetvolution.com/event/til-death-do-us-part-late-nite-catechism/) - Sierra Madre Playhouse presents the sequel to the comedy hit "Late Nite Catechism," "Til Death Do Us Part."
- ["Vino Veritas" on Tap at Theatre 40](https://thetvolution.com/event/vino-veritas-on-tap-at-theatre-40/) - West Coast Premiere of "Vino Veritas," a comedy by David MacGregor, launches September 21, 8pm at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills.
- [“Before the Sun Explodes” joins “The Sound,” “Welcome to Willits,” “Realive” in Special Engagement](https://thetvolution.com/event/before-the-sun-explodes-joins-the-sound-welcome-to-willits-and-realive-in-a-special-engagement-run-at-arena-cinelounge-beginnin/) - “Before the Sun Explodes” joins “The Sound,” “Welcome to Willits” and “Realive” in a special engagement run at Arena Cinelounge beginning Sept. 29.
- [Sci-Fi, Horror/Thriller  — Special Engagements at Arena Cinelounge](https://thetvolution.com/event/sci-fi-horrorthriller-special-engagements-at-arena-cinelounge/) - New Sci-Fi, Horror/Thriller, Horror/Sci-Fi and Manhattan Film Shorts from New York Filmmakers in limited engagement at Arena Cinelounge in Hollywood.
- [Theatre Appreciation Seminars to begin at Theatre 40](https://thetvolution.com/event/theatre-appreciation-seminars-to-begin-at-theatre-40/) - Theatre Forty of Beverly Hills will be beginning its Monday Night Theater Appreciation Seminars on Monday September 18 at 7pm.
- ["The Walking Dead" S8 Returns with a We Are the Walking Dead Contest](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-walking-dead-season-8-returns/) - In celebration of “The Walking Dead's” Season 8 premiering with its 100th Episode, airing 9pm ET, Sunday, October 22, AMC, has launched a We Are the Walking Dead contest.
- [  The Face, Behind The Face, Behind the Face at Theatre West](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-face-behind-the-face-behind-the-face-at-theatre-west/) - Sundays during October at Theatre West, "The Face, Behind the Face, Behind the Face." A performing artist confronts the ups, downs and struggles of his life and career and is led to the conclusion that his voice and his music are the keys to his success.
- [The Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-durrells-in-corfu-on-masterpiece/) - The Durrells in Curfu, Season 2 Arrives October 15, 2017 on PBS Masterpiece Louisa Durrell (Keeley Hawes, Upstairs Downstairs) and her four willful children return to PBS in the acclaimed Masterpiece series called “irresistible” (The Wall Street Journal) and “gorgeous” (USA Today). The second season continues to chronicle the family’s adventures with the island’s townspeople,
- [Doc Martin, Series 8 Premieres](https://thetvolution.com/event/doc-martin-series-8-premieres/) - The wait for new episodes of "Doc Martin" is almost over! Series 8 will premiere only on Acorn TV starting Thursday, September 21.
- [Special Screening — New Police Documentary “Fallen”](https://thetvolution.com/event/special-screening-new-police-documentary-fallen/) - Arena Cinelounge will be partnering with The Police Activities League and The Hollywood Police Support Association for a special day of fundraiser screenings of the new documentary "Fallen."
- [CRE Outreach Launches Kickstarter Campaign](https://thetvolution.com/event/cre-outreach-launches-kickstarter-campaign/) - CRE Outreach is celebrating the launch of its Kickstarter Campaign to assist in renovating their new theater as an artistic space for underserved youth, individuals with special needs, and military veterans with a Launch Gala at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica on September 28, 2017.
- [ÉMILIE: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight](https://thetvolution.com/event/emilie-la-marquise-du-chatelet-defends-her-life-tonight/) - The Coeurage Theatre Company, LA’s pay what you want theatre company, presents "EMILIE: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight."
- [The Last Arctic Show](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-last-arctic-show/) - The Velaslavasay Panorama will present “An Evening Variety Show to Ferry our Arctic Panorama into Hibernation” — Saturday, September 9, 2017 - 8:00pm
- ["Broadchurch" Find All Three Seasons - On Demand](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-final-season-for-broadchurch/) - BBC America’s “Broadchurch” begins its final season on Wednesday, June 28 at 10/9c.
- [Mindhunter on Netflix](https://thetvolution.com/event/mindhunter-on-netflix/) - How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks? Indeed. Two FBI agents (Jonathan Groff , Holt McCallany) set out on a sinister investigative odyssey to discover the brutal answers. Mindhunter arrives October 13, from House of Cards exec-producer/director David Fincher. In collaboration with Joshua Donen (Gone Girl, The Quick and the
- [L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade Culinary Cookout](https://thetvolution.com/event/l-a-loves-alexs-lemonade-culinary-cookout/) - L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade returns to UCLA’s Royce Quad on Saturday, September 9, 2017 from 12 to 4pm for its eighth highly-anticipated event.
- [Sundance TV's "Liar" Premiere's This Fall](https://thetvolution.com/event/sundance-tvs-liar-premieres-this-fall/) - Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd head the cast of the psychological thriller, "Liar." The six-part series, premiering September 27, was created, written and exec-produced by Harry and Jack Williams of Two Brothers Pictures.
- [Dirk Gently - Season 2 - Returns to BBC America Oct. 14](https://thetvolution.com/event/dirk-gently-season-2-returns-to-bbc-america-oct-14/) - "Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency," starring Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood, jumps off its second season, Saturday, October 14 @ 9pm on BBC America. Season 1 can be found for rewatching on Hulu.
- [BBC America Premieres Eight-Part Short Film Series, "Queers"](https://thetvolution.com/event/bbc-america-premieres-eight-part-short-film-series-queers/) - Curated and directed by Mark Gatiss, "Queers," starring Alan Cumming and Ben Whishaw, is an eight-part short film series in which eight established writers respond to the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act which partially decriminalized homosexual acts between men in the UK.
- [Top of the Lake: China Girl — Three Night Event on SundanceTV](https://thetvolution.com/event/top-of-the-lake-china-girl-three-night-event/) - SundanceTV debuts creator Jane Campion's highly-anticipated limited series “Top of the Lake: China Girl" as a three-night special event starting Sunday, September 10 and continuing Monday, September 11th and Tuesday, September 12th at 9p/8c each evening. The network will present two hours of the six-hour story back-to-back each night with an encore presentation immediately following.
- ["Frida" Quinceañera Anniversary and Celebration](https://thetvolution.com/event/frida-quinceanera-anniversary-and-celebration/) - Everyone's invited! Come and enjoy a free outdoor screening of the Oscar-winning film "Frida," with a fashion show inspired by the icon and a marketplace featuring Frida art and jewelry.
- [Classics in the Courtyard "The Proposal"](https://thetvolution.com/event/classics-in-the-courtyard-the-proposal/) - Today (Aug 20) at 5pm: A staged reading of Anton Checkov's comedy, "The Proposal," presented by Theatre 40 and Beverly Hills Recreation & Parks.
- ["The Italian in Me" Returns to Theatre West](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-italian-in-me-returns-to-theatre-west/) - Back by popular demand! "The Italian In Me" returns to Theatre West...
- [Salvation Premieres July 12](https://thetvolution.com/event/salvation-premieres-on-cbs/) - What would you do if you learned that the end of days was fast approaching in the form of a four-mile wide asteroid on a collision course with Planet Earth?
- [The Brick – A One Man Musical Extended](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-brick-a-one-man-musical-extended/) - At times funny and sad, complex and crass, comic/songwriter Bill Berry takes a look at the concept of three deaths in the Fringe 2017 Encore Producers Award Winning "The Brick: A One Man Musical."
- [Ball Yards](https://thetvolution.com/event/ball-yards/) - A darkly comic look at America’s true national religion: Sports!
- [Extended! "Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino’s"](https://thetvolution.com/event/bono-and-the-edge-waiting-for-godominos/) - In this parody of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” the script is flipped as Bono, wracked with guilt over his own success and fear of having lost touch with his working class roots,
- ["It's Only Lipstick"](https://thetvolution.com/event/its-only-lipstick/) - Back by popular demand, accomplished actress Claudia DiMartino once again shares her touching, moving and hilarious story of leaving the corporate world to pursue her dreams.
- ["The Marvelous Wonderettes"](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-marvelous-wonderettes-reunite-on-stage/) - The remounting of “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” at the Sierra Madre Playhouse, July 21 through August 27, is on course to be “the finger-snapping, toe-tapping, feel-good musical event of the season.
- [Icaros: A Vision — A Special Engagement](https://thetvolution.com/event/icaros-a-vision/) - Film Festival Winner, "Icaros: A Vision" — Her medical options exhausted, an American woman travels to the Amazon in search of a miracle.
- [Ingersoll Speaks!](https://thetvolution.com/event/ingersoll-speaks/) - Ernest Kearney has adapted the works and words of one “Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) Civil War veteran, Republican powerbroker and the most influential intellectual in American history; a tireless activist, Ingersoll supported equal rights for minorities, the right of women to vote and opposed capital punishment.
- [World Premiere—"Blinded"](https://thetvolution.com/event/world-premiere-blinded/) - “Blinded,” a new dark comedy by author Joni Ravenna, begins its world premiere run at Write Act Repertory Company's new home, The Brickhouse Theater,in North Hollywood.
- [The Second Coming of Klaus Kinski](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-second-coming-of-klaus-kinski/) - The Second Coming of Klaus Kinski Before his famed collaborations with director Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski was a tortured B-movie character actor who had become a touring sensation for his live wire theatrical performances. It was during this time that Kinski starred as Jesus Christ in a one-man show that had taken him a decade
- [Nights at the Algonquin Round Table](https://thetvolution.com/event/nights-at-the-algonquin-round-table/) - Flappers. Prohibition. Hot Jazz. It’s the height of the Roaring Twenties, and there’s a new kid in town. The town is sophisticated New York City, and the kid is some homespun hick wannabe determined to make a name for himself as a journalist by impressing the funniest and most famous writers on Broadway.
- [My Janis](https://thetvolution.com/event/my-janis/) - "My Janis" is a window into Janis Joplin’s private world as she struggles to find her identity in the summer of 1966.
- [An Evening With John Wilkes Booth](https://thetvolution.com/event/an-evening-with-john-wilkes-booth/) - "An Evening with John Wilkes Booth" is a one man play that lets us know who John Wilkes was and why he did what he did. Along the way, there is Shakespeare, sex, drama, and the entire acting out of the assassination itself. Sic Semper Tyrannus
- [Incantesimo Featuring Riccardo Berdini](https://thetvolution.com/event/incantesimo-featuring-riccardo-berdini/) - Music and magic have a deep and ancient connection in cultures all over the world. "Incantesimo" reveals this connection finding clues hidden in plain sight. Mixing music, magic and story-telling into a theatrical experience unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
- [The Faggot King or The...](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-faggot-king-or-the-troublesome/) - The award winning creative team behind last summer’s "Punch and Judy" gets medieval on your ass with the earliest and bloodiest gay drama ever composed in English.
- [Mary's Medicine](https://thetvolution.com/event/marys-medicine/) - "Mary’s Medicine" tells the true story of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole. Mary helped pioneer many holistic medicinal practices during Victorian England. Her methods were controversial for the time and some sought to destroy her reputation.
- ["Electricity" Ignites the Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/event/electricity-ignites-the-fringe/) - "Electricity"... a new comic / drama that explores the journey of two gay men who hook up in a motel room after their tenth high school reunion in a small town in Ohio.
- [Nothing Bad—A Werewolf Rock Musical](https://thetvolution.com/event/nothing-bad-a-werewolf-rock-musical/) - "Nothing Bad," a combined artform's Pick of Fringe 2017, is the World-Premiere musical Written/Directed by Erik Blair with Music/Lyrics by Daniel Sugimoto
- [Complete Works of Shakespeare](https://thetvolution.com/event/the-complete-works-of-william-shakespeare/) - Three men (in tights) will somehow perform every play by William Shakespeare, in just 90 minutes at The Met during Hollywood Fringe 2017!
- [Herpes: A Love Story](https://thetvolution.com/event/herpes-a-love-story/) - "Herpes: A Love Story" is a multimedia, interactive, one-woman musical comedy written, produced and performed by Cherise Pascual, and directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson.
- ["Queen Sugar" Returns](https://thetvolution.com/event/queen-sugar-returns/) - Season 1 of "Queen Sugar" left many loose ends to tie up. Tune in to the two-night Season 2 premiere on June 20 and 21.
- [Mistero Buffo—The Final Fringe Date](https://thetvolution.com/event/mistero-buffo-the-final-fringe-date/) - Featuring the talents of performing artist Panos Vlahos, Mistero Buffo will explore a social interpretation of the Passion Stories.
- [An Evening w/Stephen Tobolowsky](https://thetvolution.com/event/an-evening-with-stephen-tobolowsky/) - Stephen Tobolowsky comes to Theatre 40, in a special appearance, to perform some of his favorite stories from his new book "My Adventures With God" and "The Dangerous Animals Club."

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- [Crown City Theatre Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/crown-city-theatre-company/)
- [Dracula](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dracula/)
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- [The Odyssey](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-odyssey/)
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- [Latino Theatre Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/latino-theatre-company/)
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- [Blueberry Toast](https://thetvolution.com/tag/blueberry-toast/)
- [Mary Laws](https://thetvolution.com/tag/mary-laws/)
- [Echo Theatre Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/echo-theatre-company/)
- [Echo Theater Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/echo-theater-company/)
- [Atwater Village Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/atwater-village-theatre/)
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- [Trust](https://thetvolution.com/tag/trust/)
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- [Tennessee Williams](https://thetvolution.com/tag/tennessee-williams/)
- [Baby Doll](https://thetvolution.com/tag/baby-doll/)
- [Fountain Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/fountain-theatre/)
- [Forever Flamenco](https://thetvolution.com/tag/forever-flamenco/)
- [D Deb Debbie Deborah](https://thetvolution.com/tag/d-deb-debbie-deborah/)
- [Jerry Lieblich](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jerry-lieblich/)
- [Theatre of Note](https://thetvolution.com/tag/theatre-of-note/)
- [West Coast premiere](https://thetvolution.com/tag/west-coast-premiere/)
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- [President Obama](https://thetvolution.com/tag/president-obama/)
- [Blueprint for Paradise](https://thetvolution.com/tag/blueprint-for-paradise/)
- [Hudson Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hudson-theatre/)
- [Laurel M. Wetzork](https://thetvolution.com/tag/laurel-m-wetzork/)
- [Los Angeles History](https://thetvolution.com/tag/los-angeles-history/)
- [World Premiere](https://thetvolution.com/tag/world-premiere/)
- [Chris Field](https://thetvolution.com/tag/chris-field/)
- [Erik Patterson](https://thetvolution.com/tag/erik-patterson/)
- [Los Angeles Theater](https://thetvolution.com/tag/los-angeles-theater/)
- [One of the Nice Ones](https://thetvolution.com/tag/one-of-the-nice-ones/)
- [DNC](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dnc/)
- [Khan](https://thetvolution.com/tag/khan/)
- [RNC](https://thetvolution.com/tag/rnc/)
- [Teflon Don](https://thetvolution.com/tag/teflon-don/)
- [Ahmanson Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ahmanson-theatre/)
- [Grey Gardens](https://thetvolution.com/tag/grey-gardens/)
- [Dance On Productions](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dance-on-productions/)
- [Michael Arabian](https://thetvolution.com/tag/michael-arabian/)
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- [Phil Spector](https://thetvolution.com/tag/phil-spector/)
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- [Grand Performances](https://thetvolution.com/tag/grand-performances/)
- [Moirai Theatre Company. Theatre review](https://thetvolution.com/tag/moirai-theatre-company-theatre-review/)
- [Little Known Movies](https://thetvolution.com/tag/little-known-movies/)
- [Under the Radar. Movies Undiscovered Movies](https://thetvolution.com/tag/under-the-radar-movies-undiscovered-movies/)
- [Unknown Gems](https://thetvolution.com/tag/unknown-gems/)
- [Animation](https://thetvolution.com/tag/animation/)
- [Comedy](https://thetvolution.com/tag/comedy/)
- [Fantastic](https://thetvolution.com/tag/fantastic/)
- [Alton Sterling](https://thetvolution.com/tag/alton-sterling/)
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- [Fringe Festival](https://thetvolution.com/tag/fringe-festival/)
- [Hollywood Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollywood-fringe/)
- [Category Winners](https://thetvolution.com/tag/category-winners/)
- [Hollywood Fringe Medal Winners 2016](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollywood-fringe-medal-winners-2016/)
- [Award Winners](https://thetvolution.com/tag/award-winners/)
- [Ernest Kearney](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ernest-kearney/)
- [Hollywood Fringe Los Angeles Theater](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollywood-fringe-los-angeles-theater/)
- [Medal Winners](https://thetvolution.com/tag/medal-winners/)
- [2016 Award Winners Ernest Kearney Hollywood Fringe Medal Winners](https://thetvolution.com/tag/2016-award-winners-ernest-kearney-hollywood-fringe-medal-winners/)
- [2016 Award Winners Ernest Kearney](https://thetvolution.com/tag/2016-award-winners-ernest-kearney/)
- [Hollywood Fringe Medal Winners](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollywood-fringe-medal-winners/)
- [2016 Ernest Kearney Hollywood Fringe Medal Winners Theatre review](https://thetvolution.com/tag/2016-ernest-kearney-hollywood-fringe-medal-winners-theatre-review/)
- [2016 Award Winners](https://thetvolution.com/tag/2016-award-winners/)
- [Bloody Beautiful Fringe Festival](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bloody-beautiful-fringe-festival/)
- [Proboscis Theatre Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/proboscis-theatre-company/)
- [Game of Thrones](https://thetvolution.com/tag/game-of-thrones/)
- [GOT Season 6 Trailer](https://thetvolution.com/tag/got-season-6-trailer/)
- [HBO](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hbo/)
- [Cersei Lannister](https://thetvolution.com/tag/cersei-lannister/)
- [Jamie Lannister](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jamie-lannister/)
- [House Lannister](https://thetvolution.com/tag/house-lannister/)
- [Sansa Stark](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sansa-stark/)
- [Season 6](https://thetvolution.com/tag/season-6/)
- [Trailer](https://thetvolution.com/tag/trailer/)
- [TV Premiere](https://thetvolution.com/tag/tv-premiere/)
- [Best](https://thetvolution.com/tag/best/)
- [FX](https://thetvolution.com/tag/fx/)
- [Season 4](https://thetvolution.com/tag/season-4/)
- [The Americans](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-americans/)
- [Max von Sydow](https://thetvolution.com/tag/max-von-sydow/)
- [Isaac Hempstead Wright](https://thetvolution.com/tag/isaac-hempstead-wright/)
- [Best TV Shows](https://thetvolution.com/tag/best-tv-shows/)
- [2015](https://thetvolution.com/tag/2015/)
- [Darwyn Carson](https://thetvolution.com/tag/darwyn-carson/)
- [Mr. Robot](https://thetvolution.com/tag/mr-robot/)
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- [TV](https://thetvolution.com/tag/tv/)
- [USA Network](https://thetvolution.com/tag/usa-network/)
- [BBC America](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bbc-america/)
- [Idris Elba](https://thetvolution.com/tag/idris-elba/)
- [Luther](https://thetvolution.com/tag/luther/)
- [Mystery](https://thetvolution.com/tag/mystery/)
- [Thriller](https://thetvolution.com/tag/thriller/)
- [TVolution Quick Take](https://thetvolution.com/tag/tvolution-quick-take/)
- [Amazon Studios](https://thetvolution.com/tag/amazon-studios/)
- [Man in the High Castle](https://thetvolution.com/tag/man-in-the-high-castle/)
- [Streaming TV](https://thetvolution.com/tag/streaming-tv/)
- [Philip K. Dick](https://thetvolution.com/tag/philip-k-dick/)
- [Bosch](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bosch/)
- [Eric Overmyer](https://thetvolution.com/tag/eric-overmyer/)
- [Michael Connolly](https://thetvolution.com/tag/michael-connolly/)
- [AMC](https://thetvolution.com/tag/amc/)
- [Fear the Walking Dead](https://thetvolution.com/tag/fear-the-walking-dead/)
- [zombies](https://thetvolution.com/tag/zombies/)
- [Oscar Isaac](https://thetvolution.com/tag/oscar-isaac/)
- [review](https://thetvolution.com/tag/review/)
- [TV Review](https://thetvolution.com/tag/tv-review/)
- [Event Series](https://thetvolution.com/tag/event-series/)
- [Betty Buckley](https://thetvolution.com/tag/betty-buckley/)
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- [Spencer Green](https://thetvolution.com/tag/spencer-green/)
- [2016 Award Winner](https://thetvolution.com/tag/2016-award-winner/)
- [Hollywood Fringe Festival](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollywood-fringe-festival/)
- [Award Winnder](https://thetvolution.com/tag/award-winnder/)
- [Theatre Reviews](https://thetvolution.com/tag/theatre-reviews/)
- [Medal Winner](https://thetvolution.com/tag/medal-winner/)
- [Reality Parody](https://thetvolution.com/tag/reality-parody/)
- [Amy Snowden](https://thetvolution.com/tag/amy-snowden/)
- [Casting Confessions](https://thetvolution.com/tag/casting-confessions/)
- [musical comedy](https://thetvolution.com/tag/musical-comedy/)
- [office beat](https://thetvolution.com/tag/office-beat/)
- [Punch and Judy](https://thetvolution.com/tag/punch-and-judy/)
- [Aftermath](https://thetvolution.com/tag/aftermath/)
- [Trump's Congress](https://thetvolution.com/tag/trumps-congress/)
- [Branches of Government](https://thetvolution.com/tag/branches-of-government/)
- [Kate McKinon](https://thetvolution.com/tag/kate-mckinon/)
- [Hallelujah](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hallelujah/)
- [Hollywood](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollywood/)
- [Fringe](https://thetvolution.com/tag/fringe/)
- [Los Angeles Culture](https://thetvolution.com/tag/los-angeles-culture/)
- [Premiere Week](https://thetvolution.com/tag/premiere-week/)
- [Hairy Ape](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hairy-ape/)
- [Steven Berkoff](https://thetvolution.com/tag/steven-berkoff/)
- [Macha Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/macha-theatre/)
- [Next Fall](https://thetvolution.com/tag/next-fall/)
- [Reviews](https://thetvolution.com/tag/reviews/)
- [ICT](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ict/)
- [International City Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/international-city-theatre/)
- [Long Beach](https://thetvolution.com/tag/long-beach/)
- [Dance](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dance/)
- [The Fountain Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-fountain-theatre/)
- [Henry James](https://thetvolution.com/tag/henry-james/)
- [Limited Engagement](https://thetvolution.com/tag/limited-engagement/)
- [Turn of the Screw](https://thetvolution.com/tag/turn-of-the-screw/)
- [Alana Dietze](https://thetvolution.com/tag/alana-dietze/)
- [Dry Land](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dry-land/)
- [The Echo Theater Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-echo-theater-company/)
- [Highways Performance Space](https://thetvolution.com/tag/highways-performance-space/)
- [Theater Reviews](https://thetvolution.com/tag/theater-reviews/)
- [Superhero - Charming Wife](https://thetvolution.com/tag/superhero-charming-wife/)
- [Musical Reviews](https://thetvolution.com/tag/musical-reviews/)
- [The Complex (Ruby)](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-complex-ruby/)
- [Blood](https://thetvolution.com/tag/blood/)
- [artists](https://thetvolution.com/tag/artists/)
- [Special Event Review](https://thetvolution.com/tag/special-event-review/)
- [Interview](https://thetvolution.com/tag/interview/)
- [Pennington Dance Group](https://thetvolution.com/tag/pennington-dance-group/)
- [Q&A](https://thetvolution.com/tag/qa/)
- [Play](https://thetvolution.com/tag/play/)
- [John Farmanesh-Bocca](https://thetvolution.com/tag/john-farmanesh-bocca/)
- [father](https://thetvolution.com/tag/father/)
- [son](https://thetvolution.com/tag/son/)
- [holy coach](https://thetvolution.com/tag/holy-coach/)
- [Swarm Cell](https://thetvolution.com/tag/swarm-cell/)
- [casa 0101](https://thetvolution.com/tag/casa-0101/)
- [culture clash](https://thetvolution.com/tag/culture-clash/)
- [Katori Hall](https://thetvolution.com/tag/katori-hall/)
- [Matrix](https://thetvolution.com/tag/matrix/)
- [The Mountaintop](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-mountaintop/)
- [Bed](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bed/)
- [Jennifer Chambers](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jennifer-chambers/)
- [Dream Catcher](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dream-catcher/)
- [Stephen Sachs](https://thetvolution.com/tag/stephen-sachs/)
- [LGBT](https://thetvolution.com/tag/lgbt/)
- [Center Musical](https://thetvolution.com/tag/center-musical/)
- [Sam Harris](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sam-harris/)
- [Social Commentary](https://thetvolution.com/tag/social-commentary/)
- [Anne Coulter](https://thetvolution.com/tag/anne-coulter/)
- [Bible](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bible/)
- [False Prophets](https://thetvolution.com/tag/false-prophets/)
- [Pew Research Center](https://thetvolution.com/tag/pew-research-center/)
- [Christianity](https://thetvolution.com/tag/christianity/)
- [Religion](https://thetvolution.com/tag/religion/)
- [David Nairne](https://thetvolution.com/tag/david-nairne/)
- [Noel Coward](https://thetvolution.com/tag/noel-coward/)
- [Pacific Palisades](https://thetvolution.com/tag/pacific-palisades/)
- [Best Theatre of 2015](https://thetvolution.com/tag/best-theatre-of-2015/)
- [Chicago Theater](https://thetvolution.com/tag/chicago-theater/)
- [Trap Door Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/trap-door-theatre/)
- [Sondheim on Sondheim](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sondheim-on-sondheim/)
- [Actors Forum Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/actors-forum-theatre/)
- [Wizards and Fools](https://thetvolution.com/tag/wizards-and-fools/)
- [Breathing Room](https://thetvolution.com/tag/breathing-room/)
- [The Missing Piece Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-missing-piece-theatre/)
- [Theatre in Education](https://thetvolution.com/tag/theatre-in-education/)
- [LA Troupe](https://thetvolution.com/tag/la-troupe/)
- [Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ensemble-studio-theatrela/)
- [Princes of Kings Row](https://thetvolution.com/tag/princes-of-kings-row/)
- [American Falls](https://thetvolution.com/tag/american-falls/)
- [Los Angeles Theater The](https://thetvolution.com/tag/los-angeles-theater-the/)
- [Cafe Society](https://thetvolution.com/tag/cafe-society/)
- [August Wilson](https://thetvolution.com/tag/august-wilson/)
- [Fences](https://thetvolution.com/tag/fences/)
- [All American Girl](https://thetvolution.com/tag/all-american-girl/)
- [InterACT Theatre Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/interact-theatre-company/)
- [Citizen](https://thetvolution.com/tag/citizen/)
- [Abuse](https://thetvolution.com/tag/abuse/)
- [Bitter Lemons. Chicago Reader](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bitter-lemons-chicago-reader/)
- [Colin Mitchell](https://thetvolution.com/tag/colin-mitchell/)
- [Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/theatre/)
- [Opinion](https://thetvolution.com/tag/opinion/)
- [A24](https://thetvolution.com/tag/a24/)
- [Amy Winehouse](https://thetvolution.com/tag/amy-winehouse/)
- [Documentary](https://thetvolution.com/tag/documentary/)
- [Picnic](https://thetvolution.com/tag/picnic/)
- [Antaeus Theatre Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/antaeus-theatre-company/)
- [Flamenco](https://thetvolution.com/tag/flamenco/)
- [Grand Guignol](https://thetvolution.com/tag/grand-guignol/)
- [Zombie Joes Underground](https://thetvolution.com/tag/zombie-joes-underground/)
- [False Servant](https://thetvolution.com/tag/false-servant/)
- [The Odyssey Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-odyssey-theatre/)
- [Los Angeles. LGBT Center](https://thetvolution.com/tag/los-angeles-lgbt-center/)
- [Stanley Ann](https://thetvolution.com/tag/stanley-ann/)
- [Ann Noble](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ann-noble/)
- [Music Songwriters](https://thetvolution.com/tag/music-songwriters/)
- [Licensing](https://thetvolution.com/tag/licensing/)
- [Producers](https://thetvolution.com/tag/producers/)
- [PIracy](https://thetvolution.com/tag/piracy/)
- [Rights](https://thetvolution.com/tag/rights/)
- [Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollywood-fringe-festival-2015/)
- [Fringe Festival Hollywood Fringe Theater](https://thetvolution.com/tag/fringe-festival-hollywood-fringe-theater/)
- [Bitter Lemons](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bitter-lemons/)
- [Royalties](https://thetvolution.com/tag/royalties/)
- [Songwriters](https://thetvolution.com/tag/songwriters/)
- [Streaming Music](https://thetvolution.com/tag/streaming-music/)
- [House of Yes](https://thetvolution.com/tag/house-of-yes/)
- [Zephyr Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/zephyr-theatre/)
- [Abigail/1702](https://thetvolution.com/tag/abigail1702/)
- [A Small Fire](https://thetvolution.com/tag/a-small-fire/)
- [Row After Row](https://thetvolution.com/tag/row-after-row/)
- [DVD Review](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dvd-review/)
- [Magnolia Releasing Music](https://thetvolution.com/tag/magnolia-releasing-music/)
- [VOD](https://thetvolution.com/tag/vod/)
- [Wrecking Crew](https://thetvolution.com/tag/wrecking-crew/)
- [Sunset Baby](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sunset-baby/)
- [Dominique Morisseau](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dominique-morisseau/)
- [Coeurage Theatre Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/coeurage-theatre-company/)
- [The Woodsman](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-woodsman/)
- [Entropy](https://thetvolution.com/tag/entropy/)
- [Dolphins of Hollywood](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dolphins-of-hollywood/)
- [Recorded in Hollywood](https://thetvolution.com/tag/recorded-in-hollywood/)
- [Deborah Lawlor](https://thetvolution.com/tag/deborah-lawlor/)
- [I and You](https://thetvolution.com/tag/i-and-you/)
- [Martin McDonagh](https://thetvolution.com/tag/martin-mcdonagh/)
- [Beauty Queen of Leenane](https://thetvolution.com/tag/beauty-queen-of-leenane/)
- [Druid Theater Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/druid-theater-company/)
- [Mark Taper](https://thetvolution.com/tag/mark-taper/)
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- [Episode 1](https://thetvolution.com/tag/episode-1/)
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- [images](https://thetvolution.com/tag/images/)
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- [Janet Miller](https://thetvolution.com/tag/janet-miller/)
- [Westeros](https://thetvolution.com/tag/westeros/)
- [Season 7](https://thetvolution.com/tag/season-7/)
- [Running Times](https://thetvolution.com/tag/running-times/)
- [Live Event](https://thetvolution.com/tag/live-event/)
- [Special Event](https://thetvolution.com/tag/special-event/)
- [Stephen Tobolowsky](https://thetvolution.com/tag/stephen-tobolowsky/)
- [Benefit](https://thetvolution.com/tag/benefit/)
- [Theatre 40](https://thetvolution.com/tag/theatre-40/)
- [Marvelous Wonderettes](https://thetvolution.com/tag/marvelous-wonderettes/)
- [Sierra Madre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sierra-madre/)
- [Event](https://thetvolution.com/tag/event/)
- [Olivia Colman](https://thetvolution.com/tag/olivia-colman/)
- [Ronn Johnstone](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ronn-johnstone/)
- [Wisdom Tooth Theatre Project](https://thetvolution.com/tag/wisdom-tooth-theatre-project/)
- [Veronica Wylie](https://thetvolution.com/tag/veronica-wylie/)
- [The Little Mermaid](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-little-mermaid/)
- [Studio/Stage](https://thetvolution.com/tag/studiostage/)
- [Lauren Sanatra](https://thetvolution.com/tag/lauren-sanatra/)
- [Queen Sugar](https://thetvolution.com/tag/queen-sugar/)
- [OWN Network](https://thetvolution.com/tag/own-network/)
- [Rutina Wesley](https://thetvolution.com/tag/rutina-wesley/)
- [Dawn-Lyen Gardner](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dawn-lyen-gardner/)
- [Kofi Siriboe](https://thetvolution.com/tag/kofi-siriboe/)
- [Ava DuVernay](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ava-duvernay/)
- [Ingersoll Speaks](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ingersoll-speaks/)
- [Electricity](https://thetvolution.com/tag/electricity/)
- [Events](https://thetvolution.com/tag/events/)
- [William Shakespeare](https://thetvolution.com/tag/william-shakespeare/)
- [The Met](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-met/)
- [Complete Works of William Shakespeare](https://thetvolution.com/tag/complete-works-of-william-shakespeare/)
- [Mistero Buffo](https://thetvolution.com/tag/mistero-buffo/)
- [Dario Fo](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dario-fo/)
- [Panos Vlahos](https://thetvolution.com/tag/panos-vlahos/)
- [The Tomb](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-tomb/)
- [Ed Sharrow](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ed-sharrow/)
- [Andy Red-Nosed Warhola](https://thetvolution.com/tag/andy-red-nosed-warhola/)
- [Award Winner](https://thetvolution.com/tag/award-winner/)
- [Brick](https://thetvolution.com/tag/brick/)
- [How to Love Your Dictator](https://thetvolution.com/tag/how-to-love-your-dictator/)
- [Chimpskin](https://thetvolution.com/tag/chimpskin/)
- [Mary's Medicine](https://thetvolution.com/tag/marys-medicine/)
- [Comey](https://thetvolution.com/tag/comey/)
- [Sessions](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sessions/)
- [TV Ratings](https://thetvolution.com/tag/tv-ratings/)
- [Faggot King](https://thetvolution.com/tag/faggot-king/)
- [Christopher Marlowe](https://thetvolution.com/tag/christopher-marlowe/)
- [Lounge Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/lounge-theatre/)
- [Finally Some Privacy](https://thetvolution.com/tag/finally-some-privacy/)
- [Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollywood-fringe-festival-2017/)
- [Stringmates](https://thetvolution.com/tag/stringmates/)
- [Hollwood Fringe Festival 2017](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollwood-fringe-festival-2017/)
- [Herpes](https://thetvolution.com/tag/herpes/)
- [Love Story](https://thetvolution.com/tag/love-story/)
- [John Wilkes Booth](https://thetvolution.com/tag/john-wilkes-booth/)
- [Rock Musical](https://thetvolution.com/tag/rock-musical/)
- [Magic](https://thetvolution.com/tag/magic/)
- [Chimera Bella](https://thetvolution.com/tag/chimera-bella/)
- [Sarah Bella](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sarah-bella/)
- [Klaus Kinski](https://thetvolution.com/tag/klaus-kinski/)
- [My Janis](https://thetvolution.com/tag/my-janis/)
- [Nights at the Algonquin](https://thetvolution.com/tag/nights-at-the-algonquin/)
- [Bono and The Edge](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bono-and-the-edge/)
- [Zombie Clown Trump](https://thetvolution.com/tag/zombie-clown-trump/)
- [Girl Who Jumped off Hollywood Sign](https://thetvolution.com/tag/girl-who-jumped-off-hollywood-sign/)
- [Just Like Life](https://thetvolution.com/tag/just-like-life/)
- [Comic-Con the Musical](https://thetvolution.com/tag/comic-con-the-musical/)
- [Secret Honor](https://thetvolution.com/tag/secret-honor/)
- [Steve Scott](https://thetvolution.com/tag/steve-scott/)
- [Sansa](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sansa/)
- [Littlefinger](https://thetvolution.com/tag/littlefinger/)
- [Arya](https://thetvolution.com/tag/arya/)
- [Mungo](https://thetvolution.com/tag/mungo/)
- [Art and Abolition](https://thetvolution.com/tag/art-and-abolition/)
- [Ladies in Waiting](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ladies-in-waiting/)
- [Henry VIII](https://thetvolution.com/tag/henry-viii/)
- [Shakeslesque](https://thetvolution.com/tag/shakeslesque/)
- [Keith Galloway](https://thetvolution.com/tag/keith-galloway/)
- [Ruby Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ruby-theatre/)
- [Complex](https://thetvolution.com/tag/complex/)
- [Bonnie & Clyde](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bonnie-clyde/)
- [Medal](https://thetvolution.com/tag/medal/)
- [Final Award Winners](https://thetvolution.com/tag/final-award-winners/)
- [Help-I might be Fabulous](https://thetvolution.com/tag/help-i-might-be-fabulous/)
- [Honors](https://thetvolution.com/tag/honors/)
- [Kinsherf's Coat](https://thetvolution.com/tag/kinsherfs-coat/)
- [Migration of the Monarchs](https://thetvolution.com/tag/migration-of-the-monarchs/)
- [Save me a Spot](https://thetvolution.com/tag/save-me-a-spot/)
- [Hollywood Film Festival 2017](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollywood-film-festival-2017/)
- [Sparrow](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sparrow/)
- [The King's Language](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-kings-language/)
- [Triptych](https://thetvolution.com/tag/triptych/)
- [TheTVolution Awards](https://thetvolution.com/tag/thetvolution-awards/)
- [Best of](https://thetvolution.com/tag/best-of/)
- [Ball Yards](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ball-yards/)
- [Icaros A Vision](https://thetvolution.com/tag/icaros-a-vision/)
- [Arena Cinelounge Sunset](https://thetvolution.com/tag/arena-cinelounge-sunset/)
- [Amazon](https://thetvolution.com/tag/amazon/)
- [Sierra Madre Playhouse](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sierra-madre-playhouse/)
- [It's Only Lipstick](https://thetvolution.com/tag/its-only-lipstick/)
- [The Brick](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-brick/)
- [Extension](https://thetvolution.com/tag/extension/)
- [The Italian in Me](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-italian-in-me/)
- [Theatre West](https://thetvolution.com/tag/theatre-west/)
- [Dina Morrone](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dina-morrone/)
- [Salvation](https://thetvolution.com/tag/salvation/)
- [Film Review](https://thetvolution.com/tag/film-review/)
- [Blue](https://thetvolution.com/tag/blue/)
- [Charles Huddleston](https://thetvolution.com/tag/charles-huddleston/)
- [Michele Martin](https://thetvolution.com/tag/michele-martin/)
- [Blue People](https://thetvolution.com/tag/blue-people/)
- [Appalachia](https://thetvolution.com/tag/appalachia/)
- [PBS Masterpiece](https://thetvolution.com/tag/pbs-masterpiece/)
- [BBC](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bbc/)
- [Little Women](https://thetvolution.com/tag/little-women/)
- [Angela Lansbury](https://thetvolution.com/tag/angela-lansbury/)
- [Michael Gambon](https://thetvolution.com/tag/michael-gambon/)
- [Emily Watson](https://thetvolution.com/tag/emily-watson/)
- [Season Seven](https://thetvolution.com/tag/season-seven/)
- [HBO Go](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hbo-go/)
- [Nicaea](https://thetvolution.com/tag/nicaea/)
- [Hollywood Fringe 2017](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hollywood-fringe-2017/)
- [Sacred Beasts](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sacred-beasts/)
- [Chris Wollman](https://thetvolution.com/tag/chris-wollman/)
- [Orson Welles](https://thetvolution.com/tag/orson-welles/)
- [Ernest Hemingway](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ernest-hemingway/)
- [Midnight Texas](https://thetvolution.com/tag/midnight-texas/)
- [Premieres](https://thetvolution.com/tag/premieres/)
- [NBC](https://thetvolution.com/tag/nbc/)
- [Glow](https://thetvolution.com/tag/glow/)
- [Claw](https://thetvolution.com/tag/claw/)
- [Loch Ness](https://thetvolution.com/tag/loch-ness/)
- [Easy Targets](https://thetvolution.com/tag/easy-targets/)
- [Burglars of Hamm](https://thetvolution.com/tag/burglars-of-hamm/)
- [Spidey Project](https://thetvolution.com/tag/spidey-project/)
- [Justin Moran](https://thetvolution.com/tag/justin-moran/)
- [Jonathan Raufaeal](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jonathan-raufaeal/)
- [Ozark](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ozark/)
- [Jason Bateman](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jason-bateman/)
- [Laura Linney](https://thetvolution.com/tag/laura-linney/)
- [Jaques Brel](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jaques-brel/)
- [Odyssey Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/odyssey-theatre/)
- [Solomon King](https://thetvolution.com/tag/solomon-king/)
- [Eartha Kitt](https://thetvolution.com/tag/eartha-kitt/)
- [One Woman Show](https://thetvolution.com/tag/one-woman-show/)
- [Ashlee Olivia Jones](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ashlee-olivia-jones/)
- [Proposal](https://thetvolution.com/tag/proposal/)
- [Frida](https://thetvolution.com/tag/frida/)
- [Quinceanera Celebration](https://thetvolution.com/tag/quinceanera-celebration/)
- [AARP](https://thetvolution.com/tag/aarp/)
- [Live Events](https://thetvolution.com/tag/live-events/)
- [Confederate Statues](https://thetvolution.com/tag/confederate-statues/)
- [Jefferson Davis](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jefferson-davis/)
- [P.G.T. Beauregard](https://thetvolution.com/tag/p-g-t-beauregard/)
- [Ulysses S. Grant](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ulysses-s-grant/)
- [Nathan Bedford Forrest](https://thetvolution.com/tag/nathan-bedford-forrest/)
- [Confederate Flag](https://thetvolution.com/tag/confederate-flag/)
- [William Lloyd Garrison](https://thetvolution.com/tag/william-lloyd-garrison/)
- [William A. Jackson](https://thetvolution.com/tag/william-a-jackson/)
- [Harriet Tubman](https://thetvolution.com/tag/harriet-tubman/)
- [Benjamin Lay](https://thetvolution.com/tag/benjamin-lay/)
- [Top of the Lake](https://thetvolution.com/tag/top-of-the-lake/)
- [China Girl](https://thetvolution.com/tag/china-girl/)
- [Jane Campion](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jane-campion/)
- [Elisabeth Moss](https://thetvolution.com/tag/elisabeth-moss/)
- [Queers](https://thetvolution.com/tag/queers/)
- [Alan Cumming](https://thetvolution.com/tag/alan-cumming/)
- [Ben Whishaw](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ben-whishaw/)
- [TVolution Events](https://thetvolution.com/tag/tvolution-events/)
- [Film/TV Events](https://thetvolution.com/tag/filmtv-events/)
- [Dirk Gently Holistic Detective Agency](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dirk-gently-holistic-detective-agency/)
- [Liar](https://thetvolution.com/tag/liar/)
- [Two Brothers Pictures](https://thetvolution.com/tag/two-brothers-pictures/)
- [Joanne Froggatt](https://thetvolution.com/tag/joanne-froggatt/)
- [Ioan Gruffudd](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ioan-gruffudd/)
- [Harry Williams](https://thetvolution.com/tag/harry-williams/)
- [Jack Williams](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jack-williams/)
- [TV Events](https://thetvolution.com/tag/tv-events/)
- [L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade](https://thetvolution.com/tag/l-a-loves-alexs-lemonade/)
- [UCLA Royce Quad](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ucla-royce-quad/)
- [TVolution](https://thetvolution.com/tag/tvolution/)
- [Mindhunter](https://thetvolution.com/tag/mindhunter/)
- [David Fincher](https://thetvolution.com/tag/david-fincher/)
- [Charlize Theron](https://thetvolution.com/tag/charlize-theron/)
- [Jonathan Groff](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jonathan-groff/)
- [Emilie La Marquise du Chatelet](https://thetvolution.com/tag/emilie-la-marquise-du-chatelet/)
- [Lauren Gunderson](https://thetvolution.com/tag/lauren-gunderson/)
- [West Adams District](https://thetvolution.com/tag/west-adams-district/)
- [Last Arctic Show](https://thetvolution.com/tag/last-arctic-show/)
- [Fundraiser](https://thetvolution.com/tag/fundraiser/)
- [Emilie](https://thetvolution.com/tag/emilie/)
- [Greenway Court](https://thetvolution.com/tag/greenway-court/)
- [CRE Outreach](https://thetvolution.com/tag/cre-outreach/)
- [Kickstarter](https://thetvolution.com/tag/kickstarter/)
- [Gala Concert](https://thetvolution.com/tag/gala-concert/)
- [Autism Sings Concert](https://thetvolution.com/tag/autism-sings-concert/)
- [Fallen](https://thetvolution.com/tag/fallen/)
- [9/11](https://thetvolution.com/tag/911/)
- [Arena Cinelounge](https://thetvolution.com/tag/arena-cinelounge/)
- [Police Foundations](https://thetvolution.com/tag/police-foundations/)
- [HPSA](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hpsa/)
- [PAL](https://thetvolution.com/tag/pal/)
- [Doc Martin](https://thetvolution.com/tag/doc-martin/)
- [Season 8](https://thetvolution.com/tag/season-8/)
- [Durrell's in Corfu](https://thetvolution.com/tag/durrells-in-corfu/)
- [Masterpiece](https://thetvolution.com/tag/masterpiece/)
- [Keeley Hwews](https://thetvolution.com/tag/keeley-hwews/)
- [Silent Sky](https://thetvolution.com/tag/silent-sky/)
- [Thatre Review](https://thetvolution.com/tag/thatre-review/)
- [The Face Behind the Face](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-face-behind-the-face/)
- [Anthony Gruppuso](https://thetvolution.com/tag/anthony-gruppuso/)
- [TWD](https://thetvolution.com/tag/twd/)
- [The Walking Dead](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-walking-dead/)
- [We Are The Walking Dead Contest](https://thetvolution.com/tag/we-are-the-walking-dead-contest/)
- [Marriage Zone](https://thetvolution.com/tag/marriage-zone/)
- [Secret Rose Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/secret-rose-theatre/)
- [Jeff Gould](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jeff-gould/)
- [Theatre Appreciation Seminars](https://thetvolution.com/tag/theatre-appreciation-seminars/)
- [Beverly Hills](https://thetvolution.com/tag/beverly-hills/)
- [The Sound](https://thetvolution.com/tag/the-sound/)
- [Welcome to Willits](https://thetvolution.com/tag/welcome-to-willits/)
- [Realive](https://thetvolution.com/tag/realive/)
- [Manhattan Shorts](https://thetvolution.com/tag/manhattan-shorts/)
- [Film TV Events](https://thetvolution.com/tag/film-tv-events/)
- [Before Sun Explodes](https://thetvolution.com/tag/before-sun-explodes/)
- [Denver Film Society](https://thetvolution.com/tag/denver-film-society/)
- [Denver Film Festival](https://thetvolution.com/tag/denver-film-festival/)
- [Vino Veritas](https://thetvolution.com/tag/vino-veritas/)
- [David MacGregor](https://thetvolution.com/tag/david-macgregor/)
- [Til Death Do Us Part](https://thetvolution.com/tag/til-death-do-us-part/)
- [Aubrey Manning](https://thetvolution.com/tag/aubrey-manning/)
- [Afterlife Ghost Story](https://thetvolution.com/tag/afterlife-ghost-story/)
- [Avery Schreiber Playhouse](https://thetvolution.com/tag/avery-schreiber-playhouse/)
- [Collaboratice Artists Ensemble](https://thetvolution.com/tag/collaboratice-artists-ensemble/)
- [Gifted](https://thetvolution.com/tag/gifted/)
- [Marvel](https://thetvolution.com/tag/marvel/)
- [24th Street Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/24th-street-theatre/)
- [Aristides Vargas](https://thetvolution.com/tag/aristides-vargas/)
- [La Razon Blindada](https://thetvolution.com/tag/la-razon-blindada/)
- [Woman in Black](https://thetvolution.com/tag/woman-in-black/)
- [SPARC](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sparc/)
- [End of Summer concert](https://thetvolution.com/tag/end-of-summer-concert/)
- [Pasadena Greek Fest 2017](https://thetvolution.com/tag/pasadena-greek-fest-2017/)
- [Grey Nomad](https://thetvolution.com/tag/grey-nomad/)
- [Australian Theatre Company](https://thetvolution.com/tag/australian-theatre-company/)
- [Play Review](https://thetvolution.com/tag/play-review/)
- [Deep in the Heart](https://thetvolution.com/tag/deep-in-the-heart/)
- [Hurricane Relief Fund](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hurricane-relief-fund/)
- [Live Evens](https://thetvolution.com/tag/live-evens/)
- [Sherlock Holmes-Jersey Lily](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sherlock-holmes-jersey-lily/)
- [Premiere Announcement](https://thetvolution.com/tag/premiere-announcement/)
- [Christmas Story](https://thetvolution.com/tag/christmas-story/)
- [Kneel](https://thetvolution.com/tag/kneel/)
- [Storybook Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/storybook-theatre/)
- [Ugly Duckling](https://thetvolution.com/tag/ugly-duckling/)
- [Planet II Prequel](https://thetvolution.com/tag/planet-ii-prequel/)
- [American Astronaut](https://thetvolution.com/tag/american-astronaut/)
- [Cory McAbee](https://thetvolution.com/tag/cory-mcabee/)
- [DVD](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dvd/)
- [Robert Kirkman](https://thetvolution.com/tag/robert-kirkman/)
- [Secret History Comics](https://thetvolution.com/tag/secret-history-comics/)
- [Comic Books](https://thetvolution.com/tag/comic-books/)
- [AMC Visionaries](https://thetvolution.com/tag/amc-visionaries/)
- [Festival of Disruption](https://thetvolution.com/tag/festival-of-disruption/)
- [Dia de Los Muertos](https://thetvolution.com/tag/dia-de-los-muertos/)
- [Forever Hollywood 2017](https://thetvolution.com/tag/forever-hollywood-2017/)
- [Waiting for Godomino's](https://thetvolution.com/tag/waiting-for-godominos/)
- [Whitefire Theater](https://thetvolution.com/tag/whitefire-theater/)
- [Andrew Perez](https://thetvolution.com/tag/andrew-perez/)
- [Blank's Second Stage](https://thetvolution.com/tag/blanks-second-stage/)
- [Blank Second Stage](https://thetvolution.com/tag/blank-second-stage/)
- [Bob Corker](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bob-corker/)
- [Harvey Weinstein](https://thetvolution.com/tag/harvey-weinstein/)
- [Runaway Home](https://thetvolution.com/tag/runaway-home/)
- [Shirley Jo Finney](https://thetvolution.com/tag/shirley-jo-finney/)
- [31st Israel Film Festival](https://thetvolution.com/tag/31st-israel-film-festival/)
- [Under Jello Mold](https://thetvolution.com/tag/under-jello-mold/)
- [Whitefire Theatre](https://thetvolution.com/tag/whitefire-theatre/)
- [Jennie Fahn](https://thetvolution.com/tag/jennie-fahn/)
- [Tom Cavanaugh](https://thetvolution.com/tag/tom-cavanaugh/)
- [Bright Star](https://thetvolution.com/tag/bright-star/)
- [Edie Brickell](https://thetvolution.com/tag/edie-brickell/)
- [Steve Martin](https://thetvolution.com/tag/steve-martin/)
- [Carmen Cusack](https://thetvolution.com/tag/carmen-cusack/)
- [Walter Bobbie](https://thetvolution.com/tag/walter-bobbie/)
- [This Land](https://thetvolution.com/tag/this-land/)
- [Company of Angeles](https://thetvolution.com/tag/company-of-angeles/)
- [Evangeline Ordaz](https://thetvolution.com/tag/evangeline-ordaz/)
- [Company of Angels](https://thetvolution.com/tag/company-of-angels/)
- [Flesh and Blood](https://thetvolution.com/tag/flesh-and-blood/)
- [Indie Films](https://thetvolution.com/tag/indie-films/)
- [Mark Webber](https://thetvolution.com/tag/mark-webber/)
- [Madeline Brewer](https://thetvolution.com/tag/madeline-brewer/)
- [Feathers of Fire](https://thetvolution.com/tag/feathers-of-fire/)
- [Shadow Play](https://thetvolution.com/tag/shadow-play/)
- [Wallis Annenberg Center](https://thetvolution.com/tag/wallis-annenberg-center/)
- [Hamid Rahmanian](https://thetvolution.com/tag/hamid-rahmanian/)
- [Sinner's Laundry](https://thetvolution.com/tag/sinners-laundry/)

## Event Categories

- [Live Events](https://thetvolution.com/events/category/live-events/)
- [Film/TV Events](https://thetvolution.com/events/category/film-tv-events/)
- [Streaming Events](https://thetvolution.com/events/category/live-events/streaming-events/)