You’ve already missed some of it (and so have I), and some of it is sold out already, but don’t worry, there’s still plenty of the first Chicago Biennial International Puppet Festival goodness to go around. Directed and founded by Blair Thomas, a local puppet juggernaut, the purpose of the festival is to establish Chicago as a prominent center for […]
Read moreComedy acrobats doing an amazing act. Â Merry Christmas! [youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_gAukUJQCk”]
Read moreSince I’ve moved to Chicago, I’ve gone to a few networking events, or met people involved .  Eventually it comes out that I’m a clown.  And then people start saying, “Do you know…”  Playing clown geography. I had numerous people tell me that I should check out the Ruffians, especially their holiday show Burning BlueBeard, which was a big hit when […]
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My friend Jens Larson, former circus acrobat and handbalancer, has decided to retire from his retirement/day job as a geometry teacher and start a circus school in Phoenix! http://phxyouthcircus.org/ He’s just started out and he’s got two classes already in registration at the Children’s Museum of Phoenix and the Phoenix Center for the Arts. Jens worked with a lot of […]
Read moreHere’s a video that I hadn’t seen before of a younger George Carl doing all of his stuff , but with a little more energy and a little more acrobatics. Â He’s such an amazing and precise performer, and he works so fast. Â A true joy to watch. [youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCGzy-K5rX8″]
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A friend of mine on facebook suggested that she would love to have a light up version of the Marx Brothers as the Three Wise Men, and she’d be happy to put it up on her lawn. I detect a market opportunity! I went looking for images, and couldn’t find that as an image (which is strange, it seems like […]
Read moreWe’ve featured Joe Dieffenbacher  and the Clown Conservatory before. The CLOWN CONSERVATORY at Circus Center San Francisco, is offering a 15 week Clown Intensive in the Winter of 2014-15.  The intensive is made up of three separate 5 week intensives.  Students can take any individual 5 week workshop, combine any two, or sign up for all three for a comprehensive 15 […]
Read moreWhile I am not in NY anymore, that doesn’t mean I love it any less! A show I featured and saw earlier in the year, Shotspeare, is returning by popular demand. You’ve got 3 more chances to see it. Monday August 11 Thursday August 14 Thursday August 21 I recommend that you do! More info at  http://www.shotspeare.com
Read moreMy big news for this summer is that I’m moving to Chicago! Due to that, I won’t be posting with any regularity to clownlink (not that I had been posting with regularity before) Please continue to follow me and I should be back in August sometime. Enjoy your summer!
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Four Clowns , a Los Angeles based clown troupe, will be making a brief,East Coast debut May 23 to June 1 at  The Club at La MaMa. The show, which is also titled Four Clowns,  is a partly improvised romp through life and death, seen through the lens of the clown.  This show is for adults. The clowns are one woman, Alexis Jones, […]
Read moreSomewhere around 1989 I appeared in a very fun touring production of Twelfth Night for the now defunct Perishable Theatre. Â (I played Malvolio) Â At the end of the show, a guy came up to me to say how much he liked the show. Â He was not a typical theatre going guy, I think he was the brother of one of […]
Read moreI had the privilege and opportunity to see Bello Nock perform his show Bello Mania at the New Victory Theatre (where it will be playing through August 20) Â I can highly recommend it. Bello is widely acclaimed in the media as America’s best clown. Â I don’t know if he’s #1, but I think he’s definitely up there. Â What makes him […]
Read moreWe’ve featured Kendall Cornell’s workshops and works on clownlink many times before. Â Kendall is one of the top “women only” clown teachers in the country (she may be the only one too) Kendall feels that women will feel more comfortable and be more creative (and create differently) by learning to fail without men in the room. Â in her words from […]
Read moreA very cool project recently came to my attention– the Xylovan, an old Ford Club Wagon that has been retrofitted, retrograded, remachined and re imagined into a musical van, that allows interactive participants to bang on it and make all kinds of weird wondrous music. The concept came about approximately 4-5 years ago, and based on their website and their […]
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Back in 2011, I saw Mark Gindick do his first solo show up at SUNY Purchase.  SEE MY REVIEW It was a cold and snowy day, and the show was really great, although just in its beginning stages.  At the  talkback afterwards, Mark explained that there would be a whole lot of changes coming. Well, 2 years have passed, and […]
Read moreFascinating radio program on the history of British clowning from the BBC. Better listen to it in a hurry though, because it’s only available for 2 more days (not sure if it will be available for purchase afterwards.) Host Tony Lidington (who created a one man show based on British music hall master clown Dan Leno)  traces the role of the […]
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