Buster Keaton News

Buy tickets now for Ben Model's Organ performance.

For this video, Ivywild collaborated with world-renowned video artist and animator Tee Ken Ng, whose animations have been recognized for their inventiveness and for pushing the boundaries of the medium. 

'The Last Cyclist,' a uniquely immersive new film directed by Edward Einhorn that captures a stage performance of a rediscovered dark comedy written and performed once in the Nazi concentration camp Terezin in 1944, receives its broadcast premiere on THIRTEEN's Theater Close-Up on Tuesday August 16 at 9:30pm.

The Cape Symphony has an exciting slate of new performances scheduled for the upcoming 2022-23 season, designed to inspire joy among audiences. Guests at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center will 'tour' Australia with the ongoing Passport series; drop in on the Roaring '20s and the Romantic era; and revisit musical moments from childhood.

Actor Clare Bartholomew who plays ‘Barb’ in The Anniversary blogs for Broadway World about premiering the play in Edinburgh, her favourite routines to perform and the processes behind developing a theatrical comedy show with hardly any dialogue.

A brother and sister are playing in their messy bedroom. Suddenly, their mother's alarming screams rattle the kids into acrobatic action and a frenzied dash to clean their room and do their chores begins. A generous helping of comedy and chaotic acrobatics ensues and the mess of wild action crescendos to a furious peak.

Due to a shift in the schedule of the creative team, the Sacred Fools Theater Company production of “The Art Couple” at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre has been cancelled.

Today (Mon 6 June) Assembly Festival, announces its final 50+ shows for 2022, including Frank Skinner, Al Murray, Jinkx Monsoon (RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7 contestant, season 5 winner); Queen of Fake Alison Jackson; and Fringe favourite Reuben Kaye. 

A slapstick comedy packed with skilled stunts and uproarious interactive gags is set to entertain family audiences at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre later this month.   Chores, at the SJT on Saturday 25 June, is the story of a brother and sister playing in their messy bedroom.

The Canon Shakespeare Company is proud to present its production of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at Portland's Twilight Theatre, from April 29 through May 8. This beloved Shakespeare comedy will lean into the inherent absurdity and slapstick comedy of the original, including featuring two pairs of twins that look nothing alike. Advance tickets ($12-$15) are available at https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?preseason=ttco or can be purchased at the door, subject to availability.

Eden Espinosa, Joshua Henry, and Megan Hilty will raise the roof with a program specifically curated by The Soraya which include songs from the late Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and Company, plus numbers from Wicked, Hamilton, Carousel, and more.

Hedgerow Theatre Company and Delaware County Community College team up to present a rare theatrical experience, Jewel Walker's Tuesday. With a limited two-week run from April 21 through May 1, this double Barrymore Award-winning miniature masterpiece is directed by Stephen Patrick Smith.

The CUNY Dance Initiative and the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College announce a performance by Jon Lehrer Dance Company featuring the world premiere of Through The Storm, a full company work set to an original score by composer Zeno Pittarelli.

The CUNY Dance Initiative and the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College have announced a performance by Jon Lehrer Dance Company featuring the world premiere of Through The Storm, a full company work set to an original score by composer Zeno Pittarelli.

 Museum of the Moving Image has announced See It Big: Sondheim, a ten-film series devoted to the celebrated composer, lyricist, author, artist, and all-around innovator Stephen Sondheim. When Sondheim died last November, he didn’t just leave behind an extraordinary corpus of work—he had exited a world that his art had forever changed.

A powerful cacophony of visceral imagery, music, and poetry, Dogs of Europe paints a haunting vision of fractured identities, nations, and narratives. It is unsettling to watch because it is a future that is increasingly tangible.

Independent Shakespeare Co. (ISC) presents its first feature film, Live at the Porpentine – A Comedy of Errors. Adapted and directed by David Melville, this film has the distinction of being the only English language film adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

Everybody needs a friend, and finding out if Lisa and Corduroy will become forever friends is theatrical magic.

Running from January 13 to February 5, 2022, To  Save and Project: The 18th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation includes more than 60 newly preserved features and shorts from 19 countries, many having world or  North American premieres and presented in original versions not seen since their initial  theatrical releases.

To mark the upcoming release of her new book Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century, author and Slate film critic Dana Stevens joins Film at Lincoln Center for an extended conversation with writer Imogen Sara Smith. A screening of a restoration of Keaton’s silent comedy Steamboat Bill, Jr. follows.