Reviews

Review quotes from the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Performances of 'The Brick': The songwriting was exceptional and how Bill Berry got to each song through personal storytelling was compelling. I was involved from the moment it started. It was the whole...

by Ellen Dostal Feb. 5, 2018 In Bill Berry's solo show THE BRICK: A ONE MAN MUSICAL, Berry isn't addressing the audience in a theater. He's on a beach having a two-way conversation with his dead mother and we are the accidental eavesdroppers who witness...

By Staff Writer February 9, 2018 Actor/writer Bill Berry performs humorous autobiographical songs in his acclaimed stage production “The Brick – A One Man Musical.” James F. Dean. Wit and wisdom abound in the touching ‘The Brick – A One Man Musical’ in...

by Ellen Dostal In Bill Berry's solo show THE BRICK: A ONE MAN MUSICAL, Berry isn't addressing the audience in a theater. He's on a beach having a two-way conversation with his dead mother and we are the accidental eavesdroppers who witness their...

At Hollywood Fringe 2017 Written by Ernest Kearney A man brings his guitar and a cooler out to the beach, and as he faces the setting sun tries to decide whether he can make peace with the ghost of his abusive mother or if his memories of her need to sink...

by Certified Reviewer A tremendously moving show, disguised as an evening of comic songs. the burdens of childhood, how one moves forward with an emotionally absent parent, the struggle to assemble the broken pieces through art; all this plus the...

by Art Podell "When will you give up this clang-clang?” Bill Berry launches into a conversation with his imaginary mother. It’s heated at first. “You are wasting your life with this clang-clang! Always the bang-bang with the clang-clang!" - he mimics her...