Thursday, February 22, 2024

Phoenix Dance Theatre review – triple bill swings from tortured to tender by Lyndsey Winship

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…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PM
Friday, February 16, 2024

Name That Show! 2010s Broadway Songs (Part Two) by JK

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 h…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:12AM
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Mallory Portnoy and Nick Blaemire Revive A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green at Café Carlyle by Hayley Levitt

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 th…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PM

Suffs Star Jenn Colella and Mo Mullen Welcome Baby Girl by Darryn King

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 p…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM
Saturday, December 23, 2023

At Film Forum: A Week of Charlie Chaplin by Trav S.D.

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 Wo…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:36AM
Monday, November 6, 2023

Video: How FUNNY GIRL Gave Barbra Streisand Stage Fright For the Rest of Her Career

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 Ki…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:01AM
Friday, September 29, 2023

A joyful return of ‘Jenn Colella: Out and Proud’ at NYC’s 54 Below by Deb Miller

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 Fidelit…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:09PM
Monday, September 25, 2023

40 Years of Broadway: 2003 - 2013: The Standout Performances by JK

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 th…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:43AM
Sunday, August 6, 2023

A Look at Loyal Underwood by Trav S.D.

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, …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:43AM
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Monday, July 17, 2023

Chaplin

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AM
Monday, June 5, 2023

Chaplin by Michael Portantiere

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 / Sta…

SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:58PM
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Brooke Shields: “Pretty Baby” by Trav S.D.

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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:06AM
Friday, May 12, 2023

PBS’S “GREAT PERFORMANCES” GREAT EVENING OF BROADWAY by Ron Fassler

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 …

SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:27AM
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

“Chain of Fools” Turns 10 Today by Trav S.D.

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 2…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:36AM
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Hayley Podschun by Deb Miller

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,…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:20PM
Monday, February 27, 2023

Jennifer Coolidge Plugs Chaplin by Trav S.D.

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 b…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:26PM
Sunday, February 5, 2023

The Movies of Monta Bell by Trav S.D.

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 trad…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:11AM
Friday, January 27, 2023

Charlie & Stan, Wilton’s Music Hall, review - a beguiling fantasy about two silent comedy greats by Helen Hawkins

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 transatlan…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:00AM
Monday, January 9, 2023

CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S GRANDSON JAMES THIERREE ON LIFE AS A ‘CIRCUS FREAK’ by Robert Shuman

(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 perfo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:29PM
Sunday, January 8, 2023

30 Years Ago: Chaplin (A Missed Opportunity) by Trav S.D.

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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:21AM
Sunday, January 1, 2023

THANK YOU for 2022! by New York Theatre Workshop

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-lover…

SOURCE: YouTube at 11:42AM
Monday, October 17, 2022

Robert Wilson: ‘We shouldn’t make theatre if we can’t laugh’ by Sam Jones

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…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Tom Murray: from Black Larsen to the Beverly Hillbillies by Trav S.D.

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. Murra…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:37AM
Thursday, August 18, 2022

A Walk Through Walter Groves by Trav S.D.

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 …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:24PM
Monday, August 15, 2022

Little Shop of Horrors' Rob McClure Test His Co-Stars’ Broadway Knowledge on Playbill: The Game Show by Playbill

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…

SOURCE: YouTube at 07:07AM
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Rosie Holt review – web sensation’s political skits disconnect on stage by Brian Logan

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 mo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PM
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Just to Meet Geraldine Chaplin by Trav S.D.

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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18AM
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Come From Away's Jenn Colella Reveals Engagement to Mo Mullen by Lindsey Sullivan

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 Insta…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:37AM
Thursday, June 9, 2022

Rob McClure to Star as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors Off-Broadway by Lindsey Sullivan

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…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards