‘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,)
Dance, Entertainment, Featured, Features, Hidden Treasures, Music, On Stage, Plays, Special Events, The Arts, Theater
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.
‘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
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!
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
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.
Documentary, Entertainment, Featured, Features, Film, Mixing it Up, On Demand, Social Commentary, Tribal
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”
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.