By Ernest Kearney — All through the enforced isolation of the pandemic, denied my needed fix of theatrical smack, desperately watching Zoom shows presented on YouTube to cut the edge off my cravings like an AA dropout knocking back bottles of Nyquil, I dreamt of
By Ernest Kearney — Well here we are, still in the great Covid plague of 2020, and this is my first theatre review sans theater. My venue was YouTube and the production was: "Nathan C. Jones: A Love Story?"
By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Director Ken Roht’s hellzapoppin’ vamping musical "Vampire Burt’s Serenade" has a good deal going for it. Burt, a manic Nosferatu, is ably portrayed by Kevin Scott Richardson; one of the founding members of the Backstreet Boys.
By David Nairne — Proudly go get your geek-on at "The Bully Problem," now playing at the Broadwater Main Stage for the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019. It is a tale as old as time: Defensive super-powered android changes the balance of power
By David Nairne — You are going to have a frigging good time at "Ride or Die: The Hip-Hop Musical." My first thoughts as I walked out of the production, smiling. I also realized that it was a special experience. One unlike any
By Ernest Kearney — "Pretty Dead Girl – A Musical Necromance." There’s a title that holds promise, wouldn’t you say? Written by Shawn Ku with music & lyrics by AnnMarie Milazzo (with some additional lyrics by Ku) this 2004 short film tells of
By Ernest Kearney — The Silence of the Lambs, the 1991 thriller directed by Jonathan Demme—based on the Thomas Harris 1988 novel of the same name/screen adaptation by Ted Tally—dished out one super genius serial killer with an appetite for sautéing his victims and another
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
By Ernest Kearney — "Earhart: More Than A F**king Mystery" is your basic fun-time show. It doesn’t go into the many sundry accusations about her actual skills as an aviator, nor does it investigate the charges of shameless promoting done by Earhart’s husband George P.
Get ready to stomp your feet and clap your hands for this countrified musical, the first time this Tony-nominated show has been presented in the Los Angeles area in 30 years!