Buster Keaton News

Organist Jason Roberts will accompany the silent film 'Steamboat Bill Jr.', as part of the Great Music at St. Bart's Series on Friday, February 13 at 7:30 pm.

Continuing in a tradition of storytelling and music, Hershey Felder announces the star cast for the Chicago stage premiere of Academy Award winning director Taylor Hackford's LOUIS AND KEELY, 'LIVE' AT THE SAHARA.

Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a welcome return for Mischief Theatre, celebrated West End newcomers and winners of the Whatsonstage Award for Best New Comedy 2014 (The Play That Goes Wrong).

Today's December 17th, 2014 auction will be a one-time opportunity, for collectors to possess the ultimate best of the best. Included in the forthcoming auction, are over 196,000+ vintage movie lobby cards, posters and other ephemera from over 44,000 films from 1907 to present day. A pre-auction estimate of $6,000,000 - $8,000,000 is projected for the world's largest single most comprehensive private collection of genuine movie memorabilia extant.

Celebrated West End newcomers and winners of the Whatsonstage Award for Best New Comedy 2014*, Mischief Theatre are set to come to Birmingham with their new show Peter Pan Goes Wrong. This comedy spin on a classic family favourite opens at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 27 January until 1 February.

?The scheduled December 17th, 2014 auction will be a one-time opportunity, for collectors to possess the ultimate best of the best. Included in the forthcoming auction, are over 196,000+ vintage movie lobby cards, posters and other ephemera from over 44,000 films from 1907 to present day. A pre-auction estimate of $6,000,000 - $8,000,000 is projected for the world's largest single most comprehensive private collection of genuine movie memorabilia extant.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association announced today the lineup for the 43rd edition of Dance on Camera

There is a great deal of musical theatre out there. Not all of it - sometimes very little of it - manages to be true musical comedy. On the other hand, there are a few musicals that are nothing but comic, that have no reason for existence other than to be riotously cheerful, that audiences simply must laugh at helplessly while risking collapse. Of them, Stephen Sondheim's A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM may be the funniest. It is presumably a musical farce, but it is really vaudeville pure and simple, turned into two hours or so of spurious Roman history and laden with some of Sondheim's most delightfully silly songs.

Celebrated West End newcomers and winners of the Whatsonstage Award for Best New Comedy 2014*, Mischief Theatre are set to embark on a major UK tour with their new show Peter Pan Goes Wrong. This comedy spin on a classic family favourite will open at Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre on 21 November until 29 November, prior to a 4-week Christmas season at The Lowry, Salford Quays, where it will play from 16 December to 11 January 2015. Peter Pan Goes Wrong will then continue to tour nationwide, until July 2015.

Abingdon Theatre Company presents a concert reading of MERTON OF THE MOVIES -- an uproarious new musical comedy set in the rollicking age of Keystone Cops, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton -- with book by Donald Brenner, music and lyrics by Doug Katsaros, on Monday, December 8 at 7pm at the June Havoc Theatre (312 West 36th Street) in Manhattan. Donald Brenner, whose directorial credits include MARCH MADNESS and the upcoming MALLORCA at Abingdon, will direct.

The Play That Goes Wrong, which opened to great acclaim at the Duchess Theatre on 14 September, is delighted to announce the opening of a new booking period today, with tickets going on sale until 6 September 2015.

Beginning this Friday, October 10, 2014, Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre will offer exclusive tours of the historic Hollywood landmark daily from 8:30am on.

From the antics of silent film stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, to the more modern chicanery of the Marx Brothers or the physical comedy of the Three Stooges, people love to laugh out loud at the goings on of individuals trying to get away with something, even when they know they are doomed to get caught. Such is the tale told in Ray Cooney's RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, brilliantly directed at a breakneck pace by Gary Robbins at the Torrance Theatre Company through October 12.

Arts on the Horizon, the first dedicated theatre company for very young children in the United States, is proud to announce its programming for the 2014 - 2015 season, which will reach over 3,500 children under the age of six across the DC metro area. Arts on the Horizon's shows are interactive, inclusive, and intimate -- adhering to a completely nonverbal performance style making each piece accessible to children whose first language may not be English, children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and children at any stage of language development.

A new Blu-ray release of the all-star big screen edition of popular Broadway musical comedy A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM is out today, September 9.

Schimmel Center at Pace University is proud to announce the 2014 / 2015 season at The Schimmel Center at Pace University, located at 3 Spruce Street between Park Row and Gold Street in downtown Manhattan, adjacent to City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge. Schimmel Center is a world-class performing arts and culture series with an emphasis on music superstars from around the globe, charismatic and crowd-pleasing dance performances, spectacular theatre and contemporary cabaret. The Schimmel Center season begins on September 21 with Voce, Rising Opera Stars in Recital, and culminates on May 30 with Ben Vereen.

Lesley Heller Workspace opens the fall season with Israeli video artist Tom Pnini.

In an enormous and well-curated exhibition,the Whitney Museum invites its visitors to discover and debate one of today's divisive sculptors and painters.

Arts on the Horizon, the first dedicated theatre company for very young children in the United States, is proud to announce its programming for the 2014 - 2015 season, which will reach over 3,500 children under the age of six across the DC metro area. Arts on the Horizon's shows are interactive, inclusive, and intimate -- adhering to a completely nonverbal performance style making each piece accessible to children whose first language may not be English, children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and children at any stage of language development.

Jim Dale got his big break at an audition after getting a big laugh from a big fall. From that moment on, he would use his physicality for laughs, making him part of a long line of artists unafraid of falling down on the job.