If you’ve been hankering to run away and join The Greatest Show On Earth, now may be your golden opportunity. Ringling will be holding auditions on July 30 from 10-1 pm at their Coney Island site for future clowns. If they like your audition, you’ll see a show, fill out a more extensive application, go through some intense training, and […]
Read moreAction Maverick Master Class Tightrope An exploration into the theater of balance with Philippe Petit For the first time ever, the man who walked between the twin towers and authored the only treatise on wire walking, will conduct a series of intensive two-days master classes to a limited group of selected applicants interested in the performing arts and poetry. The […]
Read moreToy Theatres: Worlds in Miniature is an exhibit starting July 13 at San Francisco’s Museum of Performance and Design. The exhibition features 21 rare toy theatres dating from the 18th century up to the present, drawn from seven different countries including the United States, England, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark and Mexico. Along with the theatres, the exhibition will display printed […]
Read moreBig Underwear Social Tour is a project of well-known busker/variety artiste Brady Bradshaw (Bobarino Gravittini) Brady and a bunch of his international busker/variety friends are going to take their vaudeville show on the road aboard a tour bus that starts in Mexico and heads down to Panama. 15 Variety artists on a tour bus, which will serve as a mode […]
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Pescara, Abruzzo (Italy) July 12-13-14 2010 FUNAMBOLIKA is the 4th summer season of circus arts conceived by director and writer Raffaele De Ritis. It takes place in Pescara, in the 1200 seats Teatro D´Annunzio, one of Italy’s most prestigious summer arenas, that in the last 58 years hosted the world’s greatest names of the theatre, dance, opera and jazz. In […]
Read moreTiny, Dangerous, Fun Come out to the land of porches and tall trees this summer for an evening of big-top risks in the basement of a bar/flowershop. Each month a handful of clowns, burlesque performers, puppeteers, acrobats, musicians, and/or ??? will perform their ballyhoo in the bar’s bowels for 40 or so lucky patrons who got there in time to […]
Read moreAn Important Message From – Serving Theatre Since 1884 – Save 25% on Musashi tickets* ($55 & $75 tickets only)Musashi is the story of two legendary swordsmen on a mission for retribution. This riotously funny and intensely dramatic play by Hisashi Inoue depicts the spirit of the samurai and the futility of revenge through Yukio Ninagawa’s lavish directorial rendering. Starring […]
Read moreParis-based Master Teacher Rafael Bianciotto returns to NYC 6-day Workshop, July 12-17 from 6:30-10 at Access Theatre (380 Broadway, 2 blocks below Canal St) Contact Garth Edwin Sunderland at garthamb@aol.com or 718 703 9257 to register or for more information. For more information visit http://www.maskandclown.com/ Cost $425 (or $375 with the $50 early registration discount before June 10th.) The class […]
Read moreParallel Exit presents the fourth annual Move It! A free night of physical and visual theater Move It! is an annual free performance series hosted by Parallel Exit featuring physical and visual theater artists. The purpose of the series is to elevate the public profile of physical and visual theater in New York and to bring this growing international art […]
Read moreThis Friday, MOMA gives everybody a laugh with a set of rare classic comedies. It’s a Free day, courtesy of Target, so you should get there well in advance of the 8 pm start time to reserve yourself some tickets. With Piano accompaniment by Ben Model. Includes the following films: Max et son chien Dick 1912. France. Directed by Max […]
Read more“Clown Theory” is an event of the soul and mind. There is no previous experience required, in fact the less you know the more freedom you will find. The stage is the least important place for the clowns spirit…Life is the grand stage with the greatest risk but grandest reward. To be clown means you must do one most important […]
Read moreBonnie Barnett first met her father (Chester “Bobo” Barnett) at the circus. She was a four-year-old spectator; he was one of the world’s most famous clowns, a veteran performer for shows like the Shrine Circus and The Ed Sullivan Show. Though his star persona was always present in the periphery of her life, she rarely got to see him in […]
Read moreZippedy the Clown is the alter ego of artist/educator Robert Gluckson, M.A. Robert is a teacher and marketing consultant, primarily based in Humboldt County, California. Zippedy appears at parties, events, and parades, where he does walkabouts, creates balloon sculptures, and leads group games, sing-alongs, and knock-knock joke contests. Party-goers can don a costume, get their faces painted, and join the […]
Read moreA recent article from the NYT says that the Looney Tunes, including classic cartoon and comedy characters Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Coyote/Roadrunner, will start production again. The good news is that it won’t be Loonatics, or Baby Bugs, or any of the half-dozen cockamammie ideas they’ve had in the past to capitalize on the brand. Instead, they […]
Read more666, a show by Spanish company Yllana that has played (and selling out) for over 10 years in Madrid, is now at the Minetta Lane Theatre in NY. The show, mostly done without words, is a combination of bawdy humor, classic clowning, and downright demented stunts. Set on death row, the four characters of 666 cavort, wheedle, play, intimidate, and […]
Read moreThanks to Trav S.D. and his blog for the heads up on this fantastic exhibit now through August 21 at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. The exhibit, titled “The Peregrinations & Pettifoggery of W. C. Fields”, features ephemera, clippings, playbills, photos, and a fantastic film exhibition about William Claude Dukenfield. The films are curated […]
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