One Man, Two Guvnors Takes New York by Storm [post 265] One aspect of the whole  One Man, Two Guvnors  phenomenon that several of us p...

An Interview with Cal McCrystal, Physical Comedy Director for One Man, Two Guvnors [post 264] Just two hours before yesterday's Broa...

[post 245] I wasn't in London at the right time to see the smash hit, One Man, Two Guvnors , but that didn't stop me from writing...

[post 177] I'm always on the lookout for news about Carlo Gozzi for reasons that will soon become obvious. When I saw John's post ...

[post 176] Whether or not you've been following all my posts on commedia dell'arte and the various Carlos (Goldoni, Gozzi, Mazzon...

[post 175] Carlo Mazzone-Clementi (1920-2000) single-handedly brought commedia to the United States starting in 1958, teaching widely and...

[post 174] La commedia dell'arte è nata in Italia nel XVI secolo e rimasta popolare sino al XVIII secolo. Non si trattava di un gener...

[post 173] Let's give the French some credit! They may tend to over-intellectualize, but historically they have been enthusiastic fa...

[post 172] We finally finish our saga of public domain books in English about the  commedia   dell'arte with these two offerings. M...

[post 171] As is often the case, since writing  my post on Carlo Goldoni last week — read that post first! — I have stumbled upon a bun...

[post 169] Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) was the Molière of Italy, the comic playwright who drew upon the traditions of the commedia dell'...

[post 167] When I was writing Clowns , these were the books I consulted the most for my section on commedia dell'arte : • Masks, Mime...

[post 165] Because the essence of commedia dell arte was improvisation, recreating it for the modern reader has always been a tough task ...