Orson Welles directing Too Much Johnson in lower Manhattan around 1938. [post 333] Huh? Orson Welles ? The guy whose "first film...

[post 277] In my last post, I praised Rob McClure in the title role of Chaplin: The Musical  but worried about the rest of the show — book...

[post 276]  Thursday night I caught a preview performance of Chaplin: The Musical , a new Broadway show starring newcomer Rob McClure th...

[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 240] Sign in the New York City subway.

[post 215] Okay, so I exaggerate ever so slightly, but I do want you all to know about TOFT , the  Theatre on Film & Tape Archive  a...

[post 210] Pop Quiz : Name the famous Nobel-Prize winning author who wrote the following in his most celebrated work: "Who farted?...

[post 194] Yep, that's what Wikipedia says: "Physical comedy, also known as slapstick..." And if you go on the  Discussions...

[post 188] Okay, let's be honest, it would be pretty bogus of me to pretend to be objective while reviewing a show ( Flocked ) that st...

[post 187] I just got back from the opening night of this century's 6th NY Clown-Theatre Festival , a cabaret hilariously hosted by th...

[post 181] Here's a riddle for you: what do the sticky floors of New York City subway cars and dusty, musty books on Elizabethan drama...

[post 157] In the early days of modernism, conceptual artists such as Marcel Duchamp and George Grosz delighted in blurring the line betw...

[post 151] Or so says the New York Times .  A mere five days after a lengthy profile of Cirque du Soleil  co-founder and owner Guy Lalibe...