Ernest Kearney

Well, Jacob Sidney played Hamlet. Hamlet lost. A production with quite a bit of money involved, and even more ego. Never a good mix as this show so sadly proves.... full review

“In The Fog” A stunningly beautiful piece directed by Samantha Shay inspired by Yuri Norstein’s animated film “Hedgehog in the Fog”. From the first moment they had me, and if they hadn't ended the show I'd still be sitting there. A feast for the eye. ... full review

“Dramatis Personae” A clever, intelligent, one man show written and directed by Sean Dillon and Curtin Krick that is almost where it should be. And while it is a pity it hasn’t got to where it wants to be, where it’s going is interesting enough to cut it some slack. Check it out.... full review

Director Koni McCurdy and cast treats Homer’s epic to a Monty Python restyling that delivers an hour long version of the Greek classic which manages to be both true to the source material and a heck of a lot of fun. Dan Pena, Victoria Hilferty, Veronica Wylie and the rubber faced Jonathan Regier move like quicksilver over the stage snatching up every laugh possible while they do. Simply great fun for the whole family. ... full review

To be utterly transported by a theatrical experience that resonates long after you’ve left, IS the holy grail of experience that we all seek to find when we enter a space outside our own reality. Colin Mitchell’s one-man show, Linden Arden, is that rare theatrical gem that combines the jagged underworld of iniquity with the poetry of survival and dignity. A supreme performance by Colin, profoundly transforms the song this show is based on into a story of human survival that is gripping and magnet... full review

I'm afraid the "The Trial of Dali" was even more disappointing than the O.J. Trial. Other than Jane Edwina Seymour the acting was flat enough to stroll unnoticed beneath the belly of a slug. We had high hopes for this one, but unfortunately it was a "mistrial". Throw rocks at this one, surreal melting rocks. Sorry folks... full review

There is one performance that no amount of technique or RADA courses can really help with, and that’s the performance of one’s self. You can meet someone for the first time, hear them introduce themselves as an “actor” and know immediately – no. They lack what dancers call “pop”. There’s no art, no style, no….”pop” about them. How can you assume that anyone would care to see your “production”, when the grand performance of who you are is flatter than a slow hedgehog on a busy freeway? The a... full review

Silly me. Here I went into “Ǽsopera” expecting a wild and wacky parody of an opera, and what I got, well was opera. Five tales by Aesop the ancient Greek fabulist are presented here as operettas. Some like “The Frogs Who Desired a King” are delivered as the fables themselves. Others like “The Dog and its Reflection” seem to have been adapted with the intention of posing a more modern moral to the audience. Composer & librettist Jonathan Price in partnership with librettists Jeff Goode and ... full review

Clowns are the best. What grander purpose can one strive for than making others laugh? Okay, okay finding a cure for “cancer- Alzheimer’s-the common cold-world hunger-Ann Coulter” would be spiffy, but we’re talking clowns here! Not clowns with multiple PHDs for finding a remedy for cancer, not clowns with a sixteen ton weight handy to drop on Ann Coulter, just your good ol’, God bless ‘em variety of clowns who’ll make you chortle till milk shoots out your proboscis. The Four Clowns Compa... full review

Laurence Olivier starred in a production of Romeo and Juliet where the reviews he received for his rendering of the star crossed Montague kid were so uniformly abysmal that he seriously considered giving up on acting. Bob Dylan started his musical career with a band christened the Golden Chords. They lost to a tap dancing act in a high school talent show. Myself, I began with a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” bloated by 27 numbers featuring 39 actors (more or less), with... full review