Buster Keaton News

Seattle's Intiman Theatre continues its 2010 season with a bawdy and hilarious adaptation of Moliere's "A Doctor in Spite of Himself". And I have to say, it's silly, clever, fast paced and the best time I've had in a theater in quite some time.

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted last night to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-director Francis Ford Coppola and Honorary Awards to historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow, director Jean-Luc Godard and actor Eli Wallach.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) and Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) present Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays this October at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Mondays at 7pm.

New Exhibition room opens its second season with the world premiere of Candyland, a tall tale of job loss and recession woe, will run at Boston Playwrights' Theatre from July 29-August 14.

The CAPA Summer Movie Series, the longest-running classic film series in America, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2010 with an impressive assembly of classics, cult favorites, and much beloved films. The 2010 series, made possible through the generous support of PNC, will run June 4 - July 25 at the historic Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.).

Jack Wetherall will join the previously announced Dana Ivey in 'Happy Days' by Samuel Beckett, July 6 - 24, as part of the 80th Anniversary Season at Westport Country Playhouse. Directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director, the production is the third in the Playhouse's premier season under Lamos' artistic direction. Lamos will speak about Beckett's inspiring play at a Sunday Symposium on Sunday, July 11, following the 3 p.m. matinee performance.

Touted as a $1,000,000 production in 1921, 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' starring Rudolph Valentino, was among the biggest box office hits and artistically lauded successes of the silent era.

Jack Wetherall will join the previously announced Dana Ivey in 'Happy Days' by Samuel Beckett, July 6 - 24, as part of the 80th Anniversary Season at Westport Country Playhouse. Directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director, the production is the third in the Playhouse's premier season under Lamos' artistic direction. Lamos will speak about Beckett's inspiring play at a Sunday Symposium on Sunday, July 11, following the 3 p.m. matinee performance.

As part of the 2010 Summer Movie Series, CAPA will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the historic Ohio Theatre with free, guided tours on Saturday, June 12, Saturday, June 26, and Saturday, July 10, at 4:30 pm each day.

On Thursday and Friday, June 24 and 25, CAPA will offer a nostalgic return to the late 1920s with a silent film Buster Keaton double feature and a free antique car show.

On Thursday and Friday, June 24 and 25, CAPA will offer a nostalgic return to the late 1920s with a silent film Buster Keaton double feature and a free antique car show.

As part of the 2010 Summer Movie Series, CAPA will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the historic Ohio Theatre with free, guided tours on Saturday, June 12, Saturday, June 26, and Saturday, July 10, at 4:30 pm each day.

The CAPA Summer Movie Series, the longest-running classic film series in America, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2010 with an impressive assembly of classics, cult favorites, and much beloved films. The 2010 series, made possible through the generous support of PNC, will run June 4 - July 25 at the historic Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.).

Jack Wetherall will join the previously announced Dana Ivey in 'Happy Days' by Samuel Beckett, July 6 - 24, as part of the 80th Anniversary Season at Westport Country Playhouse. Directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director, the production is the third in the Playhouse's premier season under Lamos' artistic direction. Lamos will speak about Beckett's inspiring play at a Sunday Symposium on Sunday, July 11, following the 3 p.m. matinee performance.

This weekend at Wilton Music Hall (Graces Alley off Ensign Street) Katherine Rhodes and CO3 on Thursday, May 27 will perform tricks and acrobatics. Tickets are £12 or £8 concession. Free Cinema Club on Friday will screen Buster Keaton's silent film 'The General' accompanied by live classical guitar. Seb Genovese, a musician and composer, will be performing his specifically composed piece throughout. The showing starts at 7:30pm.

As part of the 2010 Summer Movie Series, CAPA will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the historic Ohio Theatre with free, guided tours on Saturday, June 12, Saturday, June 26, and Saturday, July 10, at 4:30 pm each day.

For those of you who read my column regularly, you know that I love when theatre companies produce original work and take chances. You could only imagine my pleasant surprise when I wandered upon Extended Play Productions' "Vaudeville Vivat!" running now through May 22nd at the Playground Theater. Part improvised, part scripted with a bit of clowning and burlesque, "Vaudeville Vivat!" takes us back to the revue-style comedy of our great-grandparents. You might be asking, why would a 1916 throwback show be of any interest to me? I've seen "Titanic." Well, you know The Second City? Consider Vaudeville its great-aunt.

The Athens Theatre and Susan Cole Productions present theatre organist, Ron Carter, in a musical pops and silent movie event on May 16th at 2 pm. The event will take place at the historic Athens Theatre (124 N. Florida Ave.) in DeLand. The feature silent movie is Buster Keaton's comedy 'One Week.'

The Athens Theatre and Susan Cole Productions present theatre organist, Ron Carter, in a musical pops and silent movie event on May 16th at 2 pm. The event will take place at the historic Athens Theatre (124 N. Florida Ave.) in DeLand. The feature silent movie is Buster Keaton's comedy 'One Week.'

It will be a triple first when the newly opened Jerome Robbins Theater at the Baryshnikov Arts Center presents the American debut of the young Swiss troupe Zimmermann & de Perrot in the U.S. premiere of 'Gaff Aff.'