‘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)
Jackie – A Tragedy of Mannequins and Wardrobe
By Ernest Kearney — 'Jackie' written by Austrian playwright, novelist and 2004 Noble Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is like a Rap-poetry rant inspired by David Lynch’s early films.
‘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