Clowns Ex Machina Show Work in Progress May 21, May 25 (NY)

Clowns Ex Machina’s newest creation, CLOWNS FULL-TILT explores familiar, 2-D representations of women – famous paintings, everyday advertisements, the stock characters of film and television. Compressed layers of representation spring to absurd and symphonic life onstage – no flat medium can stop a clown who wants to bust out! (and once again, not CLOWN SEX MACHINE, although their URL looks […]

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Toronto Festival of Clowns June 2-5, 2011

Toronto Festival of Clowns Time Thursday, June 2 at 6:30pm – June 5 at 11:00pm Location Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement 6 Noble Street Toronto, ON More Info Canada’s Most Red-Nosed Theatre Festival! A clown apocalypse in coming! For four days only, some of the world’s top clowns, bouffons and physical theatre performers will be unleashed in […]

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Synetic Theatre in DC– a silent King Lear (through April 24)

Thanks to Brian Foley for pointing this out to me! This looks like an amazing and highly stylized King Lear.  See the video below to see how amazing the production values of this show are. Apparently Synetic has been doing Silent Shakespeare productions, and this is the SEVENTH Synetic’s King Lear Presented by Synetic Theater Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili Choreography […]

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Cirque Mechanics’ Boom Town at the New Victory (April 8-24) (NY)

“As circus artists, we aim to show the outrageous things that our bodies can do and to surprise people as much as we can,” said Chris Lashua, artistic director of the Las Vegas based contemporary circus troupe, Cirque Mechanics.  “However, we take circus one step further by building machines that not only capture the spectacle of circus, but thrill in […]

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The Adventures of Steve and Ryan

I’ve been reading a blog “The Adventures of Steve and Ryan” which is a blog  by Steve Copeland and Ryan Combs, the two clown partners that are on the Kelly Miller Circus. Kelly Miller is an Oklahoma based circus that has been performing since 1938, and is currently owned by John Ringling North. They bill themselves as “America’s Finest One […]

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Peg-Ass-Us at Brown University: March 15 at 7:30 pm

BE FOREWARNED: THIS SHOW contains nudity and sexually explicit content. March 15th @ 7:30 PM Rites & Reasons Theatre  (155 Angell St.) John Leo and Sophie Nimmanit have created a clown show about anal sex.  Yes, you read that right.  And no, not for kids.  They bill it as a “Sex-Education Burlesque” The show features sing-a-longs, how-to’s, romance, puppets, and […]

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It’s Been Real: The Life and Legacy of Ernie Kovacs

It’s Been Real: The Life and Legacy of Ernie Kovacs Paley Center for Media 25 West 52 Street New York, NY 10019 Tuesday, April 12, 2011 6:30 pm ET Members: $20 General Public: $25 Buy Tickets   [amazon_enhanced asin=”B004IB04NU” price=”All” background_color=”FFFFFF” link_color=”000000″ text_color=”0000FF” align=”Right”/] The Paley Center for Media will hold an event celebrating and honoring television pioneer Ernie Kovacs.  […]

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Ten West: Comedy Duo

TEN WEST is the comedy duo of Stephen Simon and Jon Monastero under the direction of Bryan Coffee. They blend physical virtuosity and inventive comedy with poignant writing, broad audience appeal to create their own theatrical style with strong influences of vaudeville, commedia, and clown. Ten West originated in the sketch comedy world in 2003, and has been touring throughout […]

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Playing Commedia- 4 classes in Australia

PLAYING COMMEDIA A Series of Classes on the Comic Tradition for Teachers, Actors, Undertakers… facilitated by  Clint Bolster and Ben Cornfoot from Lightwire Theatrical Productions  When: 6.30-9pm, Thursdays March 17, 24, 31 & April 7. Where: Ithaca Church Hall, 80 Enoggera Tce Red Hill/Paddington (Boys’ Brigade Hall), AUSTRALIA! Cost: $85 for all four classes, $70 for students/unemployed (Earlybird discount price […]

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Laugh, Clown, Laugh

I follow a friend of a friend’s blog, THE SHEILA VARIATIONS, primarily because she writes everyday, she writes well, and although I don’t know her, I like her opinions on stuff.  So I keep her on my blog reader. On her blog today, she posts a number of great pictures from the movie Laugh, Clown, Laugh. There are some amazing […]

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Mexico City Workshops with Audrey Crabtree

Audrey Crabtree, one of the motivating forces behind the NY Clown Theatre Festival, is teaching two workshops in Mexico City in March.   The workshops, about developing material through improvisation and about clown duos and trios, will take place in March.  I believe the classes will be taught in Spanish (or in translation) The workshops are sponsored by ClownMeIn and GABRIELA MUÑO.  […]

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Nina Levine Workshop: “Finding Your Inner Clown” March 2011 NYC

MARCH 2011 WORKSHOP:  4 THURSDAYS IN MARCH: 3, 10, 17 & 24th from 6:30-8:30 PM. Cost $150.  Click the postcard images below for more info, or visit Nina’s Website: http://www.ninalevine.com “FINDING YOUR INNER CLOWN” Dare to be laughed at and love it!  What kind of clown are you?  Maybe you’re a bossy clown, a shy clown, a tired clown or […]

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Mike “Hillbilly” Weakley

Mike “Hillbilly” Weakley is a 1988 graduate of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. He then toured with the circus for 7 years as Hillbilly the Clown, and as a featured stiltwalker. Since that time he has entertained and performed for audiences at theme parks, professional sporting events, casinos, corporate events, festivals, concerts, trade shows, and other special […]

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