This weekend the Las Vegas Review-Journal handed out its annual Best of Las Vegas Awards and Piff the Magic Dragon was honored with three gold medals including “Best Comedian,” “Best Magician” and “Best Headliner.” To celebrate being the first to win all three awards, Piff along with his trusty sidekick Mr Piffles, The World's Only Magic Performing Chihuahua, and Las Vegas Showgirl, Jade Simone, performed a special free show to thank fans for their support.
At comedy clubs all over NYC, when the host is about to bring on the next act, they'll usually ask the performer 'What should I say?', at the landmark cabaret venue Don't Tell Mama, hosts instead ask 'What should I play?'
Don't Tell Mama Comedy presents a special edition of its weekly Friday night comedy hour with Don't Tell Mama Comedy All-Stars. Featuring celebrated comics Nancy Witter, Clayton Fletcher, Sidney Myer and more!
Aziz Ansari shares deep personal insights and hilarious takes on wokeness, family, and the social climate. Aziz Ansari Right Now is a comedy special directed by Spike Jonze and debuts July 9, only on Netflix.
Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, Kendra brings wit and dry humor to the stage for a headline spot on Don't Tell Mama's weekly Friday night comedy show. Kendra has been featured at Don't Tell Mama before on her own solo cabaret show This Could Be You last fall, directed by Tanya Moberly. Kendra has been seen on NBC's Last Comic Standing, Saturday Night Live, and The Jimmy Fallon Show. Kendra has also been seen on high profile comedy festivals such as the Glasgow, Boston, and Montreal Comedy Festival. Kendra is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and has directed several short films as well.
Today SiriusXM and Netflix announced the launch of Netflix Is A Joke Radio, a full-time comedy channel to air exclusively on SiriusXM ch. 93. This is the first time the streaming company has worked in unison with another major subscription media company to create a new outlet for their content. The channel, which will feature highlights from top Netflix talent including Adam Sandler, Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Ellen DeGeneres, Gabriel Iglesias, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mulaney, Ken Jeong, Ricky Gervais, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Maniscalco, Trevor Noah, Wanda Sykes, and more, launches on April 15, 2019 on SiriusXM.
Aziz Ansari brings his Road to Nowhere stand-up comedy tour to BAM on May 18. Ansari stars in, writes, and directs Master of None, a Netflix original comedy series that he co-created with Alan Yang (Parks and Recreation). Aziz won the 2016 and 2017 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series" and has received five additional nominations for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" (2016 and 2017), "Outstanding Comedy Series" (2016 and 2017), and "Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series" (2016).
One of this season's most exciting debuts in New York City's cabaret scene is Alex Simmons's weekly Friday night comedy series at Don't Tell Mama, where mainstream club acts and alt-comedians are finding an eager audience.
Two-time Emmy and Peabody Award winner Michael Schur, one of the most creative and respected minds in television and a writer-producer on some of the most critically acclaimed shows in history, has reupped his overall deal with Universal Television with a multi-year contract.
Anonymous Is A Woman strikes again with a disquieting site-specific show about consent and its withdrawal. Inspired by the Aziz Ansari scandal where a woman referred to as 'Grace' accused the comedian of pressuring her into sex while he stood by the opinion that it was merely a bad date, Greyscale is an exploration of blurred lines and personal stance.
World-famous theater district entertainment destination Don't Tell Mama will feature the musical-comedy duo, The Jasons, this Friday night at 9:30PM as part of their ongoing weekly comedy night.
The Paley Center for Media today announced the initial group of talent who will be participating in PaleyFest LA 2019, which takes place March 15-24, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. PaleyFest LA gives fans access to special screenings, exclusive conversations, and behind-the-scenes scoops and breaking news from the stars and creative minds behind their favorite shows.
Nearly two years after an impressive debut at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theater at A.R.T, Broken Box Mime Theater is back with SKIN, a collection of fifteen short pieces which alternate between the playful and the political. In Reverse (which dazzled this reviewer), consisted of just ten pieces. These physical storytellers, who come from diverse performing arts backgrounds (none of which, remarkably, include dance) have a palpable bond, perhaps because they communicate outside the sphere of language. Acting depends upon listening, but in mime, the 'listening' takes a more visceral and amorphous form. This accounts, I think, for the intimacy one witnesses in BXBR. It's easy for mime to miss the mark, at least if one associates meaning with hitting one's marks. These performers must trust each other to help make each action intelligible. Meaning itself, one might say, is collaborative.
There is much to admire in Skin, and under Becky Baumwoll's direction, the performers continue to amaze with their ability to convey such depth and precision of feeling with recourse only to facial expressions and body language.
How do people miss the signals of someone withdrawing consent? Inspired by the Aziz Ansari scandal, Madeline Gould and Joel Samuels have both written monologues for characters on a date without conferring. A novel way of creating theatre, this process will emulate the discrepancies in memory when two people recount the same experience.
World-famous theater district entertainment destination Don't Tell Mama continues to blur the lines between classic cabaret and stand-up comedy every Friday night at 9:30PM
Anthony Jeselnik has been enchanting while simultaneously gut-punching audiences with his line-crossing humour for over fifteen years. His evil genius wordplay has fuelled some of the most memorable Comedy Central Roasts and three widely-acclaimed solo comedy specials in the last decade. Don't miss the 'Dark Prince of Comedy' when he brings his wicked one-liners to Australian stages, playing Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in February-March.
