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
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
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
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!
In "Ashlee Olivia Presents E.A.R.T.H.A.," Ms. Jones delivers an exceptional performance of an exceptional performer
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
"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
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
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
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
