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
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
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.
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
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.”
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
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
By Ernest Kearney — So here you have the second round of Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019 offerings that sound promising:
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
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,
