Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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 o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:12AMWednesday, March 20, 2024
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 t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:42AMThursday, February 22, 2024
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 03:42PMFriday, February 16, 2024
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 08:12AMThursday, February 15, 2024
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 04:48PMTony 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 01:36PMSaturday, December 23, 2023
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 04:36AMMonday, November 6, 2023
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 10:01AMFriday, September 29, 2023
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 12:09PMMonday, September 25, 2023
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 06:43AMSunday, August 6, 2023
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 08:43AMThursday, July 20, 2023
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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 03:58PMThursday, June 1, 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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 08:06AMFriday, May 12, 2023
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 09:27AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
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 09:36AMWednesday, March 22, 2023
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 01:20PMMonday, February 27, 2023
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 03:26PMSunday, February 5, 2023
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 10:11AMFriday, January 27, 2023
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 07:00AMMonday, January 9, 2023
(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 06:29PMSunday, January 8, 2023
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 09:21AMSunday, January 1, 2023
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 11:42AMMonday, October 17, 2022
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 09:03AMThursday, September 8, 2022
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 10:37AMThursday, August 18, 2022
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 12:24PMMonday, August 15, 2022
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 07:07AMTuesday, August 9, 2022
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 02:07PMSunday, July 31, 2022
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 07:18AMTuesday, June 14, 2022
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 11:37AMThursday, June 9, 2022
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 12:54PMFriday, June 3, 2022
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 …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:33PMThursday, June 2, 2022
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 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:07PMMonday, May 2, 2022
Austin Elle Fisher(Natalie Hillard),Tyler Wladis(Christopher Hillard),Analise Scarpaci(Lydia Hillard),Jenn Gambatese(Miranda Hillard) and Rob McClure(Daniel Hillard as Euphegenia Doubtfi…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 02:50PMTuesday, March 29, 2022
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 a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PMThursday, March 24, 2022
CHORES Inspired by slapstick legends Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, the side-splitting duo of Chores is a hilarious and action-packed
SOURCE: AussieTheatre.com at 08:23AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
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! Richa…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:24PMSunday, February 13, 2022
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.
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:00AM 
