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Tomorrow, Nov 12 at 2:30m, the Silent Clowns will be presenting “The Loopy Legacy of Lupino Lane (and his brother Wallace)” at the Performing Arts Branch of the New York Public L…
This post is one in a series that defines for the layman the various types of variety arts. For the full panoply go here. In the early part of the twentieth century, Jews had their own segre…
ROCK! KEYTARS! UNICORNS! SUPERMAJOR RETURNS! Your friendly neighborhood band of rockers is back to melt your face (not literally) with an evening of musical goodness on a very significant an…
One of the coolest experiences I ever had was when I was working at Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT) and I got to go on a behind the scenes tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard through …
Today, 11/11/11 is a prefect storm of elevens, and to honor this remarkable (if completely arbitrary) occurrence, today I am going to post 11 blogposts before 11:11am. Who cares about this s…
We who have not felt the sting of a proper World War in 64 years cannot appreciate the deuced inconvenience such a development can be, especially where important matters like show business a…
Neuer Deutscher Film director Werner Herzog‘s cameras have taken us everywhere by now, from the jungles of South America in Fitzcarraldo to the Alaskan tundra in Grizzly Man to the pre…
This weekend, two amazing lectures by the Museum of Morbid Anatomy at Observatory devoted to cornerstones of fin de siècle Paris–Grand Guignol horror theatre and diabolical liq…
Today is the birthday of Joe Penner (more on Mr. Penner here). Here’s Joe in the 1939 racetrack comedy The Day the Bookies Wept: To find out more about the history of vaudeville,Â…
The Brox Sisters were an early singing trio, whose Tennessee origins brought a certain Southern charm to the act. Lorayne was born on this day in 1901; her sisters Bobbe (a.k.a. Dagmar) and …
Most years, when I am not involved in a Fringe Production myself, I try to catch a dozen or so shows in the New York International Fringe Festival. Unlike the blinkered and beleagered victim…
Swayne’s Rats and Cats (sometimes spelled Swain’s, sometimes remembered as Nelson’s) was a notorious animal act of late vaudeville, late enough that it was fondly recalled …
This post wraps up our series profiling the many performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. There are dozens more valued and bel…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I've presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don't miss the American Vaudev…
