Buster Keaton News

Synetic Theater transforms into the Illyria Speakeasy for a special pre-show event on Thursday February 13 at 7pm. Guests will pick up their tickets and give a bouncer the password to enter Illyria, a 1920s-style speakeasy! Music and decor from the era will set the mood and a guest mixologist will keep the signature cocktails flowing at an open bar. At 8pm, guests will head into the theater to take in the 1920s-set Twelfth Night. Costumes are highly encouraged! Tickets for this event are $45-$60 and can be purchased at www.synetictheater.org or 866.811.4111. A romantic comedy perfect for Valentine's Day, Synetic Theater will also have regularly scheduled performances all Valentine's Weekend!

Responding to audience demand, Synetic Theater has added two performances to the run of their 10th 'silent Shakespeare' Adaptation, Twelfth Night, January 9 - February 16, 2014. Regular performances are Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm. The two additional Saturday performances will take place on February 8 and 15 at 2 p.m.

The 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival will honor legendary actor, filmmaker and humanitarian Jerry Lewis with a multi-tiered celebration of his remarkable career.

Nominated for the Whatsonstage.com Award for Best New Comedy 2014, Mischief Theatre's West End hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, sets off on a major seventeen week UK tour this spring and will be stumbling into The King's Theatre Glasgow from Monday 10th until Saturday 15th March.

MISCHIEF Theatre's West End hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong opens its 17-week tour at The Marlowe Theatre later this month.

MISCHIEF Theatre's West End hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong opens its 17-week tour at The Marlowe Theatre later this month.

Synetic Theater co-founders Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili will be recognized on January 15th by Washingtonian Magazine as Washingtonians of the Year for being local heroes in their commitment to making the Washington DC community a better place through boundary-pushing theater.

Voting is now underway for San Antonio! We have a record number of votes in already, but if you haven't voted yet, click here to vote! If you have voted already, tell your friends.

Voting is now underway for San Antonio! We have a record number of votes in already, but if you haven't voted yet, click here to vote! If you have voted already, tell your friends.

Voting is now underway for San Antonio! We have a record number of votes in already, but if you haven't voted yet, click here to vote! If you have voted already, tell your friends.

Voting is now underway for San Antonio! We have a record number of votes in already, but if you haven't voted yet, click here to vote! If you have voted already, tell your friends.

The Seattle Theatre Group has announced the next beloved silent film series at the Historic Paramount Theatre. Now in its 11th year sponsored by Trader Joe's, the ADORED AND RESTORED Winter Series focuses on the importance of film preservation and the art of cinema by presenting some of the most influential films from the silent movie era. Each film was a 'special pick' by one of STG's partners and includes a CineClub discussion led by a film professional. Highlights include Paramount movie history and its beginnings and livelihood as a movie palace.

Philadelphia's all comedy theatre company is pleased to present its newest original production, The Big Time: New Vaudeville for the Holidays.

Voting is now underway for San Antonio! We have a record number of votes in already, but if you haven't voted yet, click here to vote! If you have voted already, tell your friends.

DelGaudio, one-half of the tandem in the evening of magic NOTHING TO HIDE, draws inspiration from Gene Kelly and Willy Wonka.

It has been 20 years since Andew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton's SUNSET BOULEVARD made its West End premiere. Fast forward to 2013, and South Africa finally has a production of SUNSET BOULEVARD to call its own.

5 composers, 3 world-premieres, 3 classic films, 2 fantastic soloists, 1 night only! tonight, November 19, 8 pm. Pre-Concert Conversation with film-composer, Brian Satterwhite, starts in the lobby at 7:20pm.

Join us as the Dallas Chamber Symphony performs live to film, featuring a trilogy of classic comedies starring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Come and hear the orchestra perform new scores by Brian Satterwhite, Penka Kouneva and Alain Mayrand. We also celebrate composer Benjamin Britten's centenary with a performance of his beautiful Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings featuring Shawn Mlynek and Katie Wolber. J.S. Bach's familiar and beloved Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 rounds out this evening, perfect for the whole family.

Philadelphia's all comedy theatre company is pleased to present its newest original production, The Big Time: New Vaudeville for the Holidays.

Before the clones attacked, before the Na'vi Hometree was destroyed, before Buzz Lightyear went to infinity and beyond, avant-garde film and video pioneers were expanding the bounds of the moving image by harnessing computer technology to create radical new ways of seeing. Museum of the Moving Image will present a weekend program devoted to exploring early works of computer animation, organized by guest curators Leo Goldsmith and Gregory Zinman. This series of screenings and conversations, Computer Age: Early Computer Movies, 1952-1987, will take place today, November 15 through 17, 2013. Screenings include avant-garde works ranging from oscilloscope experiments to computer-assisted psychedelia; formative digital advertising and music videos; as well as feature films that incorporated these techniques into the mainstream.