‘The Border’… Is There Room on the Shelf Next to ‘Cadenza’?
By Ernest Kearney – I want every show I see to leave me gaping in wide-mouth wonderment.
‘The Dolphin I Loved’ – A Fine School Of Silly Fish
By Ernest Kearney – Silliness. Wet silliness. Dolphin sex silliness. Just a whole lot of silliness, in fact
Vivian Vance Alive And Well Running Chinese Take-Out – Galatians 5:12
By Ernest Kearney – There’s nothing like “Adventures in John Wuchte’s brain” to guarantee a toe-tapping good time in the theater.
Mark Vigeant’s ‘The Best Man Show’ – Murderous Matrimonial Merriment For The Masses
By Ernest Kearney – If pushed to describe Mark Vigeant’s overall approach to comedy, I would compare it to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – only much funnier.
An Extract of Poison and Fire – 2024 Los Angeles International Flamenco Festival *
By Ernest Kearney — Oxymorons. Defined by assorted dictionaries as, “A combination of contradictory or incongruous words.” They pour forth from Shakespeare’s plays: “Sweet sorrow,” “feather of lead,” “wolvish-ravening lamb.”
Stephen Sachs’ ‘Fatherland’ at the Fountain – A Sad Fable For Our Times
By Ernest Kearney – In Fatherland, Stephen Sachs has taken a page from such “documentary plays” as Michael Hastings’ 1966 Lee Harvey Oswald: A Far Mean Streak of Indepence [sic] Brought on by Negleck [sic] an indictment of
Andrei Kureichik’s ‘Insulted. Belarus’ – Handwriting On The Wall At City Garage
By Ernest Kearney — City Garage’s production of "Insulted. Belarus," a chronicle of that country’s political woes by native son Andrei Kureichik, is commendable on a number of levels
Anna Quyang Moench’s ‘Birds Of North America’ Take Nest At The Odyssey
By Ernest Kearney — For a decade, each fall, the father John (Arye Gross) and his daughter Caitlyn (Jacqueline Misaye) spend time in the backyard of the family’s Maryland home bonding in that most serenely pensive pursuit of bird watching; referred to by
Finally ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ that won’t give you Nightmares!
By Ernest Kearney — "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" ( at A Noise Within thru Nov. 12) is one of the most underrated, and in some ways misunderstood, of all the Bard’s plays
‘Ghost Land’ – War’s Horror At City Garage Theatre
By Ernest Kearney — "Ghost Land," at City Garage Theatre, opens with the kindly face of a gigantic god staring down upon us, a god that we soon see is as sickly and as wounded as we all are.