“Final Preparations” — Building on Things that go Bump…
By Ernest Kearney — There is nothing so evasive as engendering effective and credible dread in a live theatre environment. Films have it easy.
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“Coasterthon Catastrophe” A Bucketful of Musical Looniness
By Ernest Kearney — " Coasterthon Catastrophe: An Amusement Park Musical" is a rough, dopey, kinda silly, rather tuneful, utterly frantic, sorta fun, 45 minute songfest about a pair of pals left hanging, upside down, at a major amusement park when their roller
The Autism Mamalogues – From the Heart of One Who Knows….
By Ernest Kearney — There is a great deal of love and passion that has gone into Shannon Penrod’s one woman show The Autism Mamalogues; which is understandable as she is a self-described “Autism Mom.”
Only the Beginning for “King of the Rats: A Final Symphony”
By Ernest Kearney — “I was like Mozart in his day,” announces Bartholomew (Writer/Performer Montana Cypress) from his sanctuary in an abandoned section of the New York subway. “Misunderstood, misinterpreted but not missed.”
“Hush” — The Freedom Found in Fantasy…
By Ernest Kearney — Like little boys with their toy soldiers, so, too, are little girls with their dolls: They weave webs of fantasies. But nothing, as psychologists have finally realized over the recent decades, is quite as important as the pretend world of a
Pervert: A Plunge into Political Corruption
By Ernest Kearney — Writer/director Giovanni Zuniga has succeeded in doing what few playwrights seldom do: knock one out of the stadium, first time up to bat; which is exactly what Zuniga has done with "Pervert."
“Men of Blood” A Splattered Canvas
By Ernest Kearney — Well I can’t say that I was able to discern the “three short plays, written by contemporary German authors.” There was just a single, intense, extended scene.
“Butoh Medea” – East Meets West in Madness
By Ernest Kearney — It is regrettable that more audiences didn’t have the opportunity of seeing "Butoh Medea," an adaptation of Euripides’ harrowing Greek classic of a mother who, due to the betrayal and infidelities of her husband, was driven to slaughter her children
“Doctor Zomba’s Ghost Show of Terror”
By Ernest Kearney — David Lucarelli’s "Doctor Zomba’s Ghost Show of Terror" is straight forward fun. As directed by Kevin Wetmore it harkens back to the old Jeepers-Creepers Shows of the 1960s.
“The Dead Guy” by Eric Coble (HFF18)
By Ernest Kearney — A small town unemployed knuckle-dragging ne'er-do-well (Adam Ferguson) is approached by a producer of reality TV (Te’juana Johnson) with an offer. The producer will pay Ferguson one million dollars; he will have one week to spend the sum however he likes,