Friday, May 15, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for May 15, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche posts for May 15, 2026 are about Eddy Arnold and twin playwrights Anthony and Peter Shaffer. Earlier Travalanche posts for May 15 (in no particular order) include o…

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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for May 14, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche posts for May 14, 2026 are about two recently passed individuals, both of whom will be mourned by subsets of the comedy community: Kitty Bruce and John Barbour. Ear…

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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Monday, April 27, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for April 27, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche posts for April 27, 2026 are about Samuel F.B. Morse, pin-up artist George Petty, playwright/screenwriter and Don Mullally. Earlier Travalanche posts for April 27 (…

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui review – Mark Gatiss terrifies as Brecht’s fascistic cauliflower racketeer by Arifa Akbar

Swan theatre, Stratford-Upon-AvonGatiss is part Hitler, part Scrooge, part Trump in Seán Linnen’s circus-like production for the RSCBertolt Brecht’s comic grotesque parable for Hitler�…

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Clowning Around With Fascists, in ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ by Houman Barekat

Mark Gatiss plays a Charlie Chaplin-like dictator in a timely Royal Shakespeare Company revival.

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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for April 16, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche posts for April 16, 2026 are about Dusty Springfield, Johnny Silver, and Christy Cabanne. Earlier Travalanche posts for April 16 (in no particular order) include ones…

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Christy Cabanne: From Pancho Villa to the Cisco Kid by Trav S.D.

Early photos of movie director Christy Cabanne (1888-1950) resemble the famous electro-charlatan Dr. Walford Bodie. It happens that Charlie Chaplin had once done a music hall act that lampoo…

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for April 14, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche posts for April 14, 2026 are ones celebrating the 100th birthday of Liz Renay and the 200th birthday of Burdette Johnson, founder of Palmolive (they sponsored radio s…

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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for April 12, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche post for April 12, 2026 is about actress and tap dancer Eleanore Whitney. Earlier Travalanche posts for April 12 (in no particular order) include ones on: The Tramp (…

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Saturday, April 4, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for April 4, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche posts for April 4, 2026 are about Richard Coogan (Captain Video) and Laurie Beechman (The Laurie Beechman Theatre). Earlier Travalanche posts for April 4 (in no pa…

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Thursday, April 2, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for April 2, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche post for April 2, 2026 is about a couple of great solo shows at Under St. Marks starring Killy Dwyer and Nelly Reznik. Earlier Travalanche posts for April 2 (in no…

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Monday, March 30, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for March 30, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche post for March 30, 2026 is about an upcoming New York screening of Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush. ALSO: Today is National Doctors Day. I've created two previous …

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See Charlie Chaplin's "The Gold Rush" on the Big Screen! by Trav S.D.

New Yorkers and Near-New Yorkers! I am excited to report the news the my good friends of the Silent Comedy Film Series are presenting a centennial screening of Charlie Chaplin's great featur…

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Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for March 18, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche posts for March 18, 2026 are about Susan Tyrrell, Charley Pride, and the launch of issue #2 of Slips Slips. Earlier Travalanche posts for March 18 (in no particular o…

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Monday, March 16, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for March 16, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche posts for March 16, 2026 are about the Jerry Lewis Centennial, the Charles Halton Sesquicentennial, National Panda Day, and silent star Conrad Nagel. Earlier Travalan…

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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for March 11, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche post for March 11, 2026 is about songwriter and serial rapist Joseph Brooks. Earlier Travalanche posts for March 11 (in no particular order) include ones on: Buster K…

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Thursday, February 26, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for February 26, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche posts for February 26, 2026 are about quotes by me in today's Irish Echo, the origin of Kellogg's Cereal, Christopher Marlowe, and dancer Judy Landon (wife of Brian K…

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Thursday, February 19, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for February 19, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche posts for February 19, 2026 are about silent screen actress Rosalind Byrne and black vaudeville star Irvin C. Miller. Earlier Travalanche post for February 19 (in no …

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Monday, February 16, 2026

A HISTORY OF "HIGH SPIRITS" " IT'S A GAS, IT'S A GAS, IT'S A GAS! by Ron Fassler

Louise Troy, Edward Woodward, and Tammy Grimes in "High Spirits" (1964). Photo by Friedman-Ables.February 16, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. High Spirits, the musical …

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Sunday, February 15, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for February 15, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche posts for February 15, 2026 are about a new Tura Satana documentary, and theatre columnist and sketch writer S. Jay Kaufman. Earlier Travalanche posts for February 15…

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Video: Ethan Slater Was Inspired to Write Marcel on the Train After Googling 'Charlie Chaplin Jewish' by Diep Tran, Jeffrey Vizcaíno

The Wicked actor plays the famous French mime in the new play at Classic Stage Company.

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Monday, February 9, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for February 9, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche post for February 9, 2026 is about the political revolutionary Thomas Paine. Earlier Travalanche posts for February 9 (in no particular order) include ones on: The Co…

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Saturday, February 7, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for February 7, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche post for February 7, 2026 is about the silent western star Ann Little. It's also National Ballet Day! Check out the ballet section of Travalanche posts here. Other ea…

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Friday, February 6, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for February 6, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche post for February 6, 2026 is about Disney's new Muppet Show special. Earlier Travalanche posts for February 6 (in no particular order) include ones on: Charlie Chapli…

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Thursday, February 5, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for February 5, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche post for February 5, 2026 is about Aleen Leslie, creator of A Date at Judy; and a new exhibition about The Battle of Brooklyn. Earlier Travalanche posts for February …

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Thursday, January 29, 2026

Ethan Slater & More Explain What 'Marcel on the Train' Is All About by BroadwayWorld

Rehearsals are underway for Marcel on the Train at Classic Stage Company. Co-written by Marshall Pailet and Tony Award nominee Ethan Slater, the production will be directed by Pailet and wi…

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Video: Ethan Slater & More Explain What MARCEL ON THE TRAIN Is All About

Rehearsals are underway for Marcel on the Train at Classic Stage Company. Co-written by Marshall Pailet and Tony Award nominee Ethan Slater, the production will be directed by Pailet and wi…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17PM[SHARE]
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for January 22, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche post for January 22, 2026 is about the new Mel Brooks documentary! Also, January 22 is National Polka Dot Day. See my post on the origins of the comics character "Lit…

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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for January 21, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche posts for January 21, 2026 are about Wolfman Jack and old time director Oscar Eagle (The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers original stage productions). Other earlier Trav…

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Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for January 6, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today's new Travalanche post for January 6, 2026 is about E.L. Doctorow and Ragtime. Other earlier Travalanche posts for January 6 (in no particular order) include ones on: Chaplin's The Cir…

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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off