Australian performer Marcel Cole brings a grace and ingenuity to a story that’s been told often, although not with great success: The 2012 Broadway musical “Chaplin” starring Rob McClure (featuring none o…

Thanks, Eve Golden, for the reminder that June Lockhart’s 100th birthday is upon us. June was born the day before Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush was released! I’m on vacation at the moment, else I’d fa…

Born 100 years ago today, Oona O’Neill, Lady Chaplin (1925-1991). Those well-versed in Chaplinia will note the starting fact that this timeline means that Oona was still an infant on swaddling clothes when Th…

April 16 is kind of a comedy holy day ’round here. It’s the anniversary of the release date of Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box and Way Out West and Chaplin’s The Cure, and the birthday of Three Stooges…

This International Romani Day we thought we’d give you a head’s up about a new film that focuses on Charlie Chaplin’s Romani heritage and how it influenced his art. It’s directed by the great comedian�…

We love to share the lives of remarkable people here on Travalanche — on rare occasion they’re still alive! So it is with Diane Kiesel, a New York Supreme Court Justice for almost 20 years, and a judge in N…

The standup and presenter on preshow prayers, blending dance with comedy and the night he bombed at the BBC How did you get into comedy?I feel like comedy got into me. At university, I hosted talent shows as pa…

By: Alix Cohen February 19, 2025. When playwright Philip W. Chung noticed an Asian man in the cast of Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 short, The Adventurer, he was sufficiently intrigued to do some digging. The “a…

The world premiere of Philip W. Chung’s My Man Kono tells the fascinating but little known true story of Toraichi Kono, chauffeur, valet and private secretary to Charlie Chaplin, who was caught up in the anti…

A thank you to the National Endowment for the Arts is prominently displayed on the cover of the program for My Man Kono, the new show that Pan Asian Repertory Theatre opened this week at A.R.T./New York Theatre…

Charlie Chaplin’s relationship with his Japanese immigrant chauffeur is the spine of this engaging, historical fantasia that is charmingly performed. The post My Man Kono appeared first on Theaterscene.org.

Though he was a major star in Great Britain, here in the States movie lovers are apt to know Norman Wisdom (1915-2010) from just one film, The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1967). Born right around the time Cha…

Blue Man Group will conclude its New York run in February 2025. The off-Broadway sensation featuring the marshmallow-catching, paint-splattering, toilet paper-spraying antics of a trio of wide-eyed, blue-faced …

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We first became aware of (or took note of) actress Dawn Addams (Victoria Dawn Addams, 1930-1985) from her prominent role as “Ann, the TV specialist” in Charlie Chaplin’s A King in New York (1957). What’…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Today we rewind to 2012, when Chaplin was getting ready to premiere on Broadway. The musical, which played for 135 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, starred Jenn Colell…

This one goes out to my friend Seth Shelden, Harpo interpreter and peace-monger extraordinaire. Today is Stanley Kubrick’s birthday. Having already done a general post on the great director, as well as one on…

A repurposed logo of David Byrd’s original poster for “Follies” for the one-night only concert at Carnegie Hall, June 20, 2024.June 21, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. Last evening, J…

There’s not a ton of middle ground on silent screen comedian Harry Langdon (1884-1944). The few who know him either love or hate him, and those who love him are vastly outnumbered. I’m among the Langdon-lov…

Mozart Meets Chaplin in Jazz Age Animation & Flapper Fashion by Barry David Horwitz What’s not to love about an evening with Mozart at SF Opera in silent movie style, intriguing animation, and a The Wizar…

Most of us think of Charlie Chaplin’s Waterloo as arriving with the release of Monsieur Verdoux in 1947, or his exile from the U.S. in 1952. But his alienation from the public had commenced as early as 1943 w…

Acquista 1988 * Movie Playbill "The Moderns - Geraldine Chaplin" Comedy (B) dalla sezione Other Collections dello shop online di Mynumi in cui ...

I don’t know if I’ll get around to writing about ALL of Charlie Chaplin’s numerous progeny here but several have interested me, and so we have done posts on Charlie Jr, Sydney the Younger, Geraldine, and …

Tony d'Alelio joins The Skivvies (Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley) to perform a medley of All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Donald Yettner Gardner), Smile (Charlie Chaplin), Dentist! (Little Shop o…

Academy Award winner Robert Downey Jr. will make his Broadway debut in McNeal, a new play by Tony nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar (Junk, Disgraced), directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher. The prod…

With the exception of the Marx Brothers (and there are five of them) Charlie Chaplin (1889-1975) is the stage and screen performer about whom I’ve written the greatest number of articles on Travalanche. Chapl…

By Bob Shuman The aesthetic issue being explored in Orson’s Shadow (Austin Pendleton’s own play now celebrating its 25th Anniversary) might best be expressed if I show you a picture of the Little Tramp (or …

Leeds PlayhouseBelonging: Loss. Legacy. Love brings together work by Phoenix’s new boss Marcus Jarrell Willis, Miguel Altunaga and Dane Hurst Formed in 1981, Phoenix Dance Theatre have had more image changes …

Hello, show tune lovers! Today's game is all about songs from Broadway musicals that opened in the 2010s - not that long ago! You've probably at least heard of most of the shows included here, but how familia…

Mallory Portnoy and Nick Blaemire will bring A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green to Café Carlyle on March 3 and 4. The pair will portray the famed Broadway songwriting team they they played in Bradley…

Tony Award nominee Jenn Colella and her wife Mo Mullen have welcomed a new baby girl. Morrison Caroline Colella was born on February 14. “She’s here,” Colella said in an announcement post on Instagram. �…

We are delighted to be in receipt of the 11th hour news that New York’s Film Forum will be presenting Charlie Chaplin features all week, beginning today with a newly restored print of A Woman of Paris (1923),…

Barbra Streisand says that an onstage experience in Funny Girl on Broadway gave her stage fright for the rest of her career. Watch a video clip from her interview with CBS Mornings' Gayle King, in which Streisa…

Michael Lavine sings "I Know Its True" from the musical Bonanza Bound written by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Saul Chaplin.With fun facts and anecdotes by Robert W. Schneider and Charles Kirsch. Performed at…

Tony nominee and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Grammy Award winner Jenn Colella, whose long list of stage credits includes Broadway’s Come From Away, If/Then, Chaplin, High Fidelity, and Urban Cowboy,…

40 Years of Broadway: 2003-2013:The Standout Performances Over the years, I've had the great privilege of seeing some of the greatest performers in Broadway history. Some I've caught at the end of their caree…

I nod his morning to Loyal Underwood (1893-1966), a member of Charlie Chaplin’s stock company from 1916 to 1923. I have been guilty on occasion of mistaking Underwood for James T. Kelley, I fear, for like Kel…

Original Broadway Cast, 2012 (Masterworks Broadway) In “Just Another Day in Hollywood,” the ensemble of Chaplin sings of “Stars on the rise / Stars on the fall / Stars you forget / Stars you recall.” Fo…

You see? Just like Milton Berle and Bob Hope, Brooke Shields (b. 1965) started out as a Charlie Chaplin impersonator. In this photo she’s about five, but then she went and dressed like The Little Tramp again …

Sutton Foster (center) hosts PBS’s “Great Performances: Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway’s Best.”May 12, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Premiering tonight on PBS is a joyous gala tit…

Hard to believe but my second little (literally) baby is now a tween! Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube was released ten years ago today, on March 28, 2013. I timed the…

A triple threat of the stage and screen, Hayley Podschun keeps rewinding the clock on her proverbial “fifteen minutes of fame” with credits that include everything from Broadway (Hello, Dolly; Something Ro…

Thanks a thousand times to the the Facebook friend who called my attention to Jennifer Coolidge’s acceptance speech for her well deserved SAG award for her work on White Lotus. It had me bawlin’! The brilli…

Though Monta Bell (1891-1958) was a protege of Charlie Chaplin and even worked with the Marx Brothers, we are late in treating of him, as his comic movies were more in the sophisticated tradition of Lubitsch, a…

Told by an Idiot return with a celebration of silent-movie antics and daft gags Imagine what would have happened if the young Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel were cabin-mates on a transatlantic liner. The Told …

(Helen Pitt’s article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 1/10/23; Photo: Swiss-French circus performer, violinist and actor James Theirree in Sydney.CREDIT:JAMES BRICKWOOD.) When performer James Thierree�…

According to IMDB, today is the is 30th anniversary of the U.S. wide release of the movie Chaplin (1992). Don’t get too excited! I’m not here for any knee-jerk celebration! Well past the centenary of Chapli…

As we celebrate the end of 2022 and the arrival of 2023, one thing is consistent year to year—we are surrounded by a supportive and passionate community of theatre-makers and theatre-lovers! Our community sh…

As his new version of Alfred Jarry’s scandalous Ubu Roi is staged in Spain, the innovative director considers the collision of the terrifying and the comic Somewhere between revisiting his first encounter wit…

Tom Murray (1874-1935) appeared in fewer than two dozen films, most of them silent comedies, but some of them are so significant that we understate to say that he rates attention here. Murray’s best known rol…

It was probably inevitable that I would do a post on English music hall comedian Walter Groves (1856-1906), especially since David Crump’s recent biography of Fred Karno has confirmed, at least apparently, wh…

Head down to Skid Row with the cast of Off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors. Guest host Rob McClure tests the knowledge of co-stars Khalifa White and Aaron Arnell Harrington in categories about movie musical…

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her show The Woman’s Hour, the viral comedy star offers caricatures of burbling backbenchers and a woke-bashing TV host In the darkness of our political moment, Rosie Holt’s…

I realized the other day that of course the celebrity I wanted to meet most in the world was Geraldine Chaplin (b. 1944). (When I was a child, it had been Judy Garland, though that was quite impossible, but I d…

Jenn Colella and Mo Mullen are engaged. Colella, a Tony nominee and former Broadway.com vlogger, who will return to Come From Away from June 21 through August 7, announced the news on Instagram on June 13. …

Rob McClure is heading to Skid Row. The 2022 Tony nominee will join the off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors as Seymour beginning on July 12. He will replace Skylar Astin, who will take his final bow …

Stage and screen actor Walter James (1882-1946) had the rare distinction of playing good-sized supporting roles in features by all three top silent comedy stars: Battling Butler (1926) with Buster Keaton; The K…

Welcome back to the rock! Tony-nominated original cast member and former Broadway.com vlogger Jenn Colella will return to Broadway's Come From Away at the Schoenfeld Theatre. She will step back into the roles …

  Austin Elle Fisher(Natalie Hillard),Tyler Wladis(Christopher Hillard),Analise Scarpaci(Lydia Hillard),Jenn Gambatese(Miranda Hillard) and Rob McClure(Daniel Hillard as Euphegenia Doubtfire) Mrs. DoubtfireBo…

The original cast of The Full Monty will reunite for a new limited series on Disney+. The series will star the original cast of the film, including Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy and Lesley Sharp. The…

CHORES Inspired by slapstick legends Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, the side-splitting duo of Chores is a hilarious and action-packed

Watch the full interview here: https://bway.world/WarrenCarlyleBL Broadway is back and BroadwayWorld is bringing you all of the interviews you crave with your favorite Broadway stars! Richard Ridge is keeping …

In today's installment, we look at some fun props and memorabilia from some short-lived Broadway flops like Diana the Musical, Dance of the Vampires, King Kong, Chaplin and more.

Jenn Colella is known for her Tony-nominated performance in Come From Away, which she reprised for Apple TV+'s film adaptation. Prior to performing the show-stopping number "Me and the Sky" as Captain Beverly B…

Tony nominee Jenn Colella joins Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek for a stroll in the heart of New York’s Theater District for a walk through her resume and revisits past performances in shows like C…

Today, we continue our new series that is strictly to the letter. Broadway From A to Z, will look at the people, shows and history of The Great Bright Way! Obviously, with each entry, we'll only be able to scr…

Great was our enjoyment, occasionally swelling to awe, of Showtime’s The Real Charlie Chaplin, which we mentioned here a few days ago. Directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney pulled off something of a mag…

Well, I don’t get Showtime, and I don’t know anyone who does, but periodically they show something that makes me wish I did. Tonight they premiere a program called The Real Charlie Chaplin. I was skeptical …

(Charles Bramesco’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/18; via Pam Green; Photo:  Charlie Chaplin was ‘chameleonic in the way he reflected back to people what they wanted’. Photograph: Footage File, L…

A tip of the hat to comedy supporting player Eddie Baker (1897-1968). As is often the way. Baker enjoyed his bigger and more memorable roles in silent days. For example, he was the referee in the boxing match i…

By: Alix Cohen November 11, 2021: Arguably one of New York cabaret’s treasures on and off the stage, Sidney Myer once again elicits both buoyant laughter and empathetic pathos from a not-to-be-missed show…

A great day for classic comedy fans, it’s the release date of a new biography of the Guv’nor: Fred Karno: The Legend Behind the Laughter. I hope I don’t have to tell my readers of the importance of Fred K…

Mal Z. Lawrence, whose defiantly old-school Borscht Belt stand-up comedy delighted audiences and happily surprised critics when the Catskills on Broadway revue became a hit in 1991, died Monday at a hospice fac…

Today's episode features stage and screen star Bill Irwin. 'I grew up in the 1950s with Jackie Gleeson, Art Carney, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin as my heroes, which of course I only new through this fairly…

Watch the full interview HERE: http://bway.world/JennBL Want more Backstage Live episodes? Visit http://bway.world/BackstageLive Richard Ridge chats with Broadway favorite Jenn Colella, who will soon join Set…

BroadwayWorld is thrilled to announce that Kara Lindsay (Wicked, Newsies) and Jenn Colella (Come From Away, If/Then, Chaplin) will join the BroadwayWorld Stage Door masterclass lineup in June!