Robin Williams News

Alberta Bair Theater offers exclusive access to a live-streaming comedy show a?oeUnited We Laugha?? by Yakov Smirnoff on Saturday, August 29 at 7:00 pm mountain time. Available at the ABT website, general streaming tickets for this 75-minute performance are $25; $50 includes a post-show virtual Meet & Greet.

III. ...And There Was No Pomp or Circumstance

On Friday, August 7, 3-D's Executive Producer/Artistic Director T.J. Dawson will welcome voice actor Bill Farmer (The Voice of Goofy) to 'Fantastical Friday.' Dawson will speak to Farmer from 2:00-3:30 PM (PDT) on Facebook Live @3DTShows.  

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On this day we remember comedy legend, Robin Williams, on what would have been his 69th birthday.

Triple Threat Comedy Night with FRANK CALIENDO, DENNIS MILLER & DAVID SPADE at Bellco Theatre originally scheduled for Saturday, September 12, 2020 has been rescheduled to Saturday, March 13, 2021.

On this day in 2002, comedy star Robin Williams headed to Broadway for a limited three-night run at the Broadway Theater! Check out a clip from Robin's legendary stand up comedy tour de force below! (Content warning: NSFW. Explicit language).

92Y has announced their upcoming schedule featuring Sara Bareilles, Judy Gold, Rosie O'Donnell and more.

See the lineup of upcoming online events at 92Y! Stars of the hit TV series THIS IS US, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, HOMELAND and more are set to appear!

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the 101 greatest scenes in cinema from 1901 to 2020. See if your favorite movie moments made the list!

Yakov Smirnoff will be the very first headliner comedian to perform before a live audience in Branson during the city's reopening following the COVID-19 pandemic's 'stay-at-home-orders.' From quarantine to comic relief, Smirnoff becomes a first responder with his NEW show, 'Laughter Rx FDA Approved' with Dr. Yakov Smirnoff prescribing laughter as an antidote.

Just as ESPN Films moved “The Last Dance” earlier to fill the void that live sports left, ESPN Films' Peabody and Academy Award-winning 30 for 30 series is premiering three new documentaries, two of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, that will air on Sundays in May and June. 

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the best TV episodes from the 1950's to 2020; see if your favorites made the list!

BroadwayWorld Book Club is officially off and running! Or should we say, reading! The first BroadwayWorld Book Club selection is Jennifer Ashley Tepper's The Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 1. Tepper has just released the first volume of the book for free on Kindle!

We want to hear from you! We're starting #BwayWorldPrompts, where each day we'll be asking our readers on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram questions to spark some theater conversation.

Robert De Niro announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. “Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!” The film appears on several of AFI's lists of the greatest American films – including #3 on the AFI's 100 YEARS…100 LAUGHS!

We've been compiling videos from college seniors all around the country for our new daily showcase series. Although their performances were cancelled, the show must go on-- virtually!

While Robin Williams started performing stand-up comedy in the mid-'70s, most of America first fell in love with him as the naïve and hilarious alien from the planet Ork in Mork & Mindy. He became an instant superstar and went on to do five HBO stand-up specials and dozens of feature films. Robin performed steadily for nearly four decades-from comedy clubs to stadiums, from talk shows to USO tours-and continually amazed audiences with his frenetic energy and unbelievably quick wit.

StageWorks Ink's starts it's 7th Season off at CLINTON STREET THEATRE with a live stage adaptation of Popeye beginning April 10th 2020.

Scott P. Calhoon's dreamlike staging of the S. E. Hinton classic finds moments of beauty and adrenaline in the sometimes clumsy prose of a young adult classic.