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Calling All Clowns! A Clown Parade, Public Pie Fight and opening night cabaret will usher in the New York Clown Theater Festival on Friday, September 3. Come hoot, honk, holler, and roll through the city in the most preposterous manner possible. We’ll gather in Union Square at 5 pm, and at 5:30, we’ll take over the L train. The pandemonium […]

NYC’s Unicycle Day Will Roll Into Brooklyn BROOKLYN — NYC’s first Unicycle Festival will be rolling across New York City this September. The first day of the festival is in Brooklyn and is being proclaimed by Borough President Marty Markwitz as Brooklyn Unicycle Day. The festivities begin with a 13-mile journey across Brooklyn, on unicycle. The growing popularity of this […]

Image via Wikipedia One of my friends  (Joel Jeske, if you must know) has been on a facebook posting tear lately, posting lots of great video from YouTube.  One of those items was a Muppets appearance by the great Wally Boag.  I had never seen it, and didn’t know the name, but he looked and sounded so familiar, that I […]

People apparently like Rotten Plantains. By popular demand, CIRQUE DU SOLEIL’s favorite clowns will be back for more! Claudio from Verekai, Patrick from Banana Schpeel and their amazingly hilarious friends will be at 45 Bleecker Theatre until the end of August. The Rotten Plantains will kick off another 8-show run (appropriately) on Friday, the 13th. Tickets are $15; find them […]

Looks like there’s a fair amount of circus/clown stuff going on at this year’s NY Fringe. Lots of interesting stuff– I’m particularly interested in Magical Exploding Boy– I like the title, and the preview trailer looks very good.  I also like the looks of the Great Galvani.  And SHINE is supposed to be wonderful.  (I have friends who saw it’s […]

Ringling Red Unit Clown Todd Griffith in Hospital. Send Him a Message of Support. (this article reposted from http://www.clownalley.blogspot.com) UPDATE FROM BRANDON: From Brandon… Todd is scheduled for surgery at 11am this morning. Pray that the doctors have wisdom and discernment as they remove as much of the tumor as they can. Please continue to send him well wishes through […]

Great photo montage of my clown college roommate Jay Stewart teaching the art of pie throwing in the Tribeca Citizen. I’ve reproduced a few of the photos here, but you should really check out the whole enchilada on their website.  Well worth it. http://tribecacitizen.com/2010/08/04/pie-fight-on-white-2/ (and thanks as always to Pat Cashin’s clownalley.net for the heads up) Pie Fight on White! […]

THE BRICK THEATER, INC. PRESENTS THE NEW YORK CLOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 3-26 @ THE BRICK FESTIVAL LINEUP ANNOUNCED! The Brick Theater, Inc., presenter of the first festival of Clown Theatre in New York in over 20 years in 2006, brings the festival back this fall as the 2010 New York Clown Theatre Festival, performing September 3-26 at The Brick […]

This looks to be a really interesting show if you get a chance to see it.  Patrick de Valette has been really excellent in everything I’ve seen him in, including Les Chiche Capon (and Fred Blin was one of his original partners in that) The Rotten Plantains in “French Connection (via Texas and Brazil)” - Comedy Never have you seen such a […]

Another old-time friend and classmate (this one from the Trinity Rep Conservatory) is Travis Stewart, better known to the vaudeville adoring masses as Trav S. D, who among other things is the author of No Applause–Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous.  He’s also got a blog, which if you click his name it will take you to […]

In case, you don’t know, Jackpotting is the circus term for sitting around and telling stories (mostly about the jackpots that you’ve gotten into and how you managed to escape them). I spent most of last night Jackpotting with my clown college roommate– Jay Stewart. In 1989, fresh out of the Trinity Rep Conservatory and having done a small series […]

Sorry to let a burleycue notice into the clownlink, but a friend of a friend is looking to fill a position for the NY Fringe, and I figure that somebody  out there might know somebody (who knows somebody) This musical been produced in Vancouver twice and Seattle, and now they are moving it to the NY Fringe. If you do […]

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 […]

Action 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 […]

Paris-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 [email protected] 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 […]

A 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 […]