Rachel Parker’s ‘The Wolfe & The Bird’; Guns Don’t Kill People – Parents Do
By Ernest Kearney — There’s a great deal that is familiar about The Wolfe & the Bird, Rachel Parker’s one-woman show at the Matrix.
SUGAR AND SH*T … Bad Soup, Famished Horse or Baby with an Eye Patch.
By Ernest Kearney — “Sugar and Sh*t,” at the Hollywood Fringe Festival '21, is full of moments that clash and tumble and deprive both the actresses and their audience of the show that could have been. Which is a pity because
TOMB Buries Itself
By Ernest Kearney — “Tomb” borrows from Stephen King’s The Shining and George Lukas’ classic THX 1138. There’s nothing wrong with that, except they haven’t borrowed the interesting parts.
‘Killer’s Head’ & ‘The Unseen Hand’ — Adventures in Sam Shepard’s Brain
y Ernest Kearney — The story goes that while giving an interview, many years back, Playwright Edward Albee was asked his opinion as to Sam Shepard. Albee responded with, “He writes good plays – about every third one.”
Healing:After The Tragedy
Described as "A must see play! It captures the true definition of being victorious and overcoming life's tragedies." Healing After The Tragedy follows Creator/Performer Nesha Wonderland's journey revealing the 5 different ages and eras of her life, that nourished her individual journey of healing by
Let’s Write a Musical — Death, Where is Thy Sing?
By Ernest Kearney — "Let’s Write a Musical," played the McCadden Theatre at this year’s Hollywood Fringe. It is a show of contradictions, commencing with Director John Coppola’s usage of slender enactments in its staging that makes for a charming presentation of
“The Duchess and The Stripper” — History in a G-String
By Ernest Kearney — Blaze Starr, stripper and paramour of Louisiana Governor Earl Long (brother of Huey), and Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor who shook the English monarchy to its foundation, shared in common Baltimore as a home town.
“Princess Magic’s Trash Time Revue” — Talent in Search of a Show
By Ernest Kearney — I always say, at least to anyone willing to listen, that the two most common types of failures, theatre-wise, are those shows which are wonderfully produced but have no idea, and those shows that have a solid concept and are poorly
Propelled Power: Duchess Elizabeth, Eva Braun, Mamie Till – The One and Only Earwax of HFF2019….
By Ernest Kearney — Readers of my Fringe reviews on TVO are undoubtedly familiar with the rating system I apply to the shows I see. There are five grades. That wasn’t always the case. My first year of reviewing there were only three,
‶Temple Tantrum″ A Perfect Performance in a Near Perfect Show….
By Ernest Kearney — Fear and the pain we deny are the cancers of the soul. Having been raised in the Solid Rock Ministries, a right wing conservative Christian cult that publicly punished its disciples for offenses in the eyes of the community