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.
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?"
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
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…
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
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
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.”
"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
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