80 stories by "Ernest Kearney"
A GENDER-FLUID RICHARD III ROOTED IN HISTORY AND PERFORMANCE TRADITION A commanding central performance anchors a sharp, theatrically confident staging The Tragedy of Richard the Third, Will…
MOZART MEETS THE FINAL FRONTIER Pacific Opera Project boldly goes where singspiel has gone before Begin with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1789 complex and comic singspiel Die Entführung aus …
POETRY AS ACTIVISM, MEMORY, AND INVITATION A moving, participatory tribute to June Jordan that insists poetry still matters June Jordan was a seminal feminist poet and essayist who"beyond ge…
ZANDER RAPHAEL SPINS PUPPETRY INTO GOLD Gilded Spindle offers Shannon L. Reagan's retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin tale with a slight #MeToo twist. While the talents and artistry of Reagan, …
Kind Stranger … A Memory Play, conceived and performed by Rick Simone-Friedland is successful as a historical rendering of Playwright Tennessee Williams' life. It is also successful as a r…
A SOLO HAMLET BUILT ON PRECISION AND VELOCITY Inside the White-Box World of Izzard: One Performer, Twenty-Two Roles, No Safety Net Suzy Eddie Izzard"formerly known as Eddie Izzard until 2023…
A MURDEROUSLY FUN MUSICAL SEND-UP OF KIDS-TV STARDOM Nathan Wang and Matthew Leavitt turn wholesome childhood icons into gleeful chaos" fast, filthy, and ridiculously entertaining. Sets are …
A HOLIDAY PANTO THAT KNOWS WHAT IT'S DOING The Actors' Gang offers a family-friendly fairy tale with teeth Children of the Winter Kingdom " The Bonkers Adventures of Holly and Spruce, now fr…
THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD " IT RINGS THE DOORBELL Priestley's prophetic 1945 masterpiece glows with fierce clarity at Theatre 40 Masquerading as one of those staid drawing room mysteries Agatha…
Bluebeard's Castle, A Medieval Musical Thriller by Russian director and playwright Sofia Streisand, making her U.S. debut at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, displays immense ambition that achi…
SUPER ZEROES UNITE! Aging heroes, flat jokes, and laughs that need life support Golden Age by Thomas J. Nisuraca is the roughest of rough theatre. Staged by Force of Nature Productions and d…
THANKS TO ANTAEUS, CYMBELINE RIDES AGAIN Who knew Cymbeline could gallop? Director Nike Doukas's new staging at Antaeus Theatre Company turns one of Shakespeare's most notoriously unwieldy p…
A MILD CASE OF THE CREEPS Ah, Halloween " All Hallows' Day, Allhallowtide, Jack-o'-lanterns, the madcap lads of West Hollywood, the troops of pint-sized witches, Iron Men and Disney princess…
INTO THE WORDS Entering The Other Space at the Actors Company Theatre Complex, I was immediately taken by Fritz Davis's well-crafted video projections cast on Joel Daavid's set of three wall…
OH, WHAT A NIGHT Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana (1961) may be viewed as the finish of a journey the playwright began twenty years earlier with The Glass Menagerie (1944). The on…
A GEM OF A PRODUCTION FOR THERESA REBECK'S DAZZLING SUNDAY ON THE ROCKS Solid. Diamond Solid. Strength and luster. That is what's most striking about Sunday on the Rocks by playwright Theres…
FLY ME TO THE SUN… AND LEAVE ME THERE I confess, playwright Brian Quijada was an unknown quantity to me, and after attending Fly Me to the Sun at the Fountain Theatre, I was of the mind th…
ACHILLES' HEEL IN ARCADIA There is a misunderstanding of critics among some circles, a sense that they are all cast in the mold of Ellsworth Toohey, the sniveling, Machiavellian art critic f…
A MASTERPIECE OF MUSICAL MISCHIEF In 1911, the Louvre was the largest building in the world, containing more than a thousand rooms, spread out over 45 acres and housing over a quarter millio…
TIME IS OUR FRIEND A Victorian inventor travels thousands of years into the future, only to discover that humanity has evolved"and devolved"into two radically different species. The 14/48 Ho…
Let there be no mistaking it, Mark Vigeant is so funny that if he was performing on an amphitheater set up in front of Mount Rushmore, after the first five minutes milk would be shooting out…
DEAD BLONDES TELL NO TALES " EXCEPT THIS ONE Conspiracy theories have surrounded the death of actress and restaurateur Thelma Todd since 1935, when her lifeless body was discovered in a gara…
WAITING FOR COWDOT Normally, a surfeit of hyphens in any production assures trouble ahead, but Aaron Francis, the writer-director-designer-producer of this subversive, potent indictment of t…
A KNOCK AT THE HEART With her staging of Dolores, Edward Allan Baker's two-woman drama about domestic violence, director Stephanie Feury"at the theatre that bears her name"has placed on disp…
OFFTIME Abi Watkinson's one-woman show 5:45 is a poor receptacle for a great deal of talent"one that feels underdeveloped and not fully thought through. The trouble starts with the title. A …
