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Charles Tertiens is heading back to the stage in Cape Town with his new show: PREMIUM LIVE SHOWCASE OF COMEDY MAGIC. It's set to be a laugh a minute at the Protea Hotel Fire & Ice, but he does promise that no watches will be harmed.

Accurately reviewing Bianca del Rio's It's Jester Joke tour is perhaps one of the most challenging reports I've ever had to write. That's because so much of what I witnessed was quite frankly, and delightfully, unrepeatable. 

The Coral Springs Center for the Arts is launching a music- and laugh-packed 2019-2020 season with eight audience-wowing concerts and shows in October and November. The state-of the-art performing arts center is located at 2855 Coral Springs Drive. Tickets for all concerts and shows are now available for purchase by calling the Box Office at 954-344-5990 or by going online to www.TheCenterCS.com.

Popular Cape Town funnyman, Alan Committie, is back!

Ahead of bringing his darkly comic clown show, Beep Boop, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, physical comedian and clown, Richard Saudek, answers five questions for BroadwayWorld.

The California premiere of Nick Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel, FRANKENSTEIN, launches A Noise Within's 2019-2020 season August 11, 2019. Much in-demand director Michael Michetti helms Michael Manuel as The Creature and Kasey Mahaffy as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, presenting Shelley's tale from the atypical perspective of The Creature. Having seen Kasey in ANW's stunning MAN OF LA MANCHA and the hysterical NOISES OFF, I jumped at the chance to interview this talented actor/performer.

Clowning around in rehearsal with Stephen Spurling's 'Death Of A Shoe Salesman' which opens this week at the New York Theatre Festival. Cast and crew work out some clown technique, physical comedy skills, timing and improv during their final rehearsals before heading into the theatre on Thursday!

The Coral Springs Center for the Arts today announced that tickets are now on public sale for the upcoming music- and laugh-packed 2019-2020 season offering an exciting, diverse, audience-wowing array of concerts, shows and events, including the popular jukebox musical JERSEY BOYS, the winner of four Tony Awards and a Grammy.

Conjuring categorically stupid nonsense is harder than it looks. Dan and Neil however, make it look easy. Leave your refined, sophisticated tastes at the door (you are fooling NO ONE anyway) and get down with some of the silliest sods in this here town of scallywags.

Fresh off sold-out shows in New York, London, Melbourne and LA, award-winning clown Zach Zucker returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with an hour of high-energy, absurdist, standup comedy, as the human tragi-comedy that is Jack Tucker.

Theatre Palisades is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Ken Ludwig's LEND ME A TENOR, presenting the hilarious comedy which won three Tony Awards and four Drama Desk Awards. An angry wife, a presumed death, crazy costumes designed by June Lissandrello, secret sex romps, loads of slamming doors and mistaken identities make for a delightful, farcical comedy. Director Sherman Wayne encourages you to attend with a willing suspension of disbelief, putting aside your rational faculties and sense of realism/logic for the sake of theatrical merriment and enjoyment, just as worldwide audiences have been doing for the past 30 years. It's an ideal way to laugh your troubles away for a few hours!

LA's favorite clown troupe Four Clowns makes their triumphant return to the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival with a brand new show, 'Four Clowns Presents: Shakedown at the Dusty Spur!' Four Clowns is dishing out their signature fare of physical comedy, this time with an old western twist. It's a rootin' tootin' cowboy shootin' romp of a show that will have you cheering the heroes, booing the villains and laughing your chaps off!

Physical Theater Festival Chicago, back for its sixth season, announced exciting schedule updates today

When their car breaks down in the woods, the Poolander family is forced to seek refuge in an old cabin in the woods ... a cabin populated with EVIL CLOWNS!!!!

All set to stage his experimental piece, Rupesh Tillu elaborates on how Shakuntalam came about. 'The play was first conceived during Rednose Entertainment and Clowns Without Borders Laughter Per Kilometre residency in Matheran.'

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus officially opens on Broadway today, April 21, 2019.

The Tank, a home for emerging artists, presents a new Sour Grapes Productions monthly show: SILENT BUT DEADLY: A Mime Experience. Created by Chris Weigandt & Genny Yosco, directed by Genny Yosco, with lighting and Sound Design by Chris Weigandt.

The Paris Fringe: a Budding English Theatre Festival. What happened at the 2018 (3rd annual) edition?

The hugely popular Cape Town comedian, Alan Committie, goes back to school with his brand-new show, Class(y) Clowns, directed by Chris Weir, in the Baxter Concert Hall, from 23 November to 15 December at 8.15pm, with Saturday matinee performances.

The hugely popular Cape Town comedian, Alan Committie, goes back to school with his brand-new show, Class(y) Clowns, directed by Chris Weir, in the Baxter Concert Hall, from 23 November to 15 December at 8.15pm, with Saturday matinee performances.

SHOTSPEARE combines the greatest playwright in history with audience participation, a drinking game and a sleeve of saltines, creating a must-see comedic twist on classic literature. After years of successful performances in New York City, Las Vegas and festivals around the world, Emery Entertainment, Inc. brings this laugh-out-loud show back to the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza Today, Friday and Saturday evenings only, November 15 thru December 8. Note: there will be no performances Thanksgiving weekend. Tickets may be purchased through MetroTix at www.metrotix.com or by calling 314-534-1111. Additionally, tickets will be available at the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza box office one hour prior to show time. All seats are $25. Student Rush tickets also available one hour before show time at the box office for $10 (ages 21 and up).

Los Angeles' favorite clown troupe Four Clowns, teams up with the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles for an all-new Holiday take on one of the Bard's most popular works "Twelfth Night or What You Will". Four Clowns presents "Welcome to Illyria! or An Exceedingly Silly Retelling of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night" Start your holiday off right, with laughs, giggles and general merriment! "Welcome to Illyria!" will run for twelve performances only, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays from November 30 - December 16, 2018, Friday, Saturday & Sunday have an 8:00 pm show as well as a Sunday 2:00 pm show. This is not the first time Four Clowns has worked with Shakespeare's text. In 2015, Four Clowns took on Hamlet to receive rave reviews. In 2011 the company produced an award-winning version of Romeo & Juliet, and in 2014 they teamed up with California State University Long Beach to present a version of Ubu Roi called Ubu The Sh*t, a French play based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.

SHOTSPEARE combines the greatest playwright in history with audience participation, a drinking game and a sleeve of saltines, creating a must-see comedic twist on classic literature. After years of successful performances in New York City, Las Vegas and festivals around the world, Emery Entertainment, Inc. brings this laugh-out-loud show back to the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings only, November 15 thru December 8. Note: there will be no performances Thanksgiving weekend. Tickets may be purchased through MetroTix at www.metrotix.com or by calling 314-534-1111. Additionally, tickets will be available at the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza box office one hour prior to show time. All seats are $25. Student Rush tickets also available one hour before show time at the box office for $10 (ages 21 and up).

Angela Delfini Explains It All For You, a full-length one-woman show created by Italian comic actress Angela Delfini and renowned physical comedy director John Towsen, will play a limited engagement at The Lyric Hyperion Theater (2106 Hyperion Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90027) as part of their United States cross-country tour this fall. Performances will be today, November 1 at 10pm, Friday, November 2 at 8pm, Saturday November 3 at 8pm, and Sunday, November 4 at 4pm. Tickets ($10) are available online at www.eventbrite.com/e/andrea-delfini-explains-it-all-for-you-tickets-50619744017. The performance will run approximately 60 minutes, with no intermission.

Laughter REALLY is medicine and we prove it every day. The Foundation For Laughter proudly announces the debut of LAUGHTER LEAGUE LIVE, a one-of-kind benefit evening of comedy celebrating the work of the Laughter League Healthcare Clown team at Boston Children's Hospital.