‘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.
‘The Jason Helfgott Experience’ – When A Movement Artist Doesn’t 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
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
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’
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
By Ernest Kearney — In "My Dead Dad," Samuel Jae is covering very well-trodden ground – very well covered.(HFF23)
‘Befok’ (or The Desperate Attempt To Impress Iñárritu) – 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
By Ernest Kearney — I am a sucker for clowns
‘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,)
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School Of Night’s ‘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.