Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for October 21, 2025 is a menu of recommendations for some cool new things you might want to check out! Earlier Travalanche posts for October 21 (in no particu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PMMonday, October 20, 2025
In keeping with their international flavors, Chamber Music of Maryland, will be presenting Spanish Brass on November 2, 2025. This world renown ensemble will be performing a wind array of mu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:36PMWednesday, October 15, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for October 15, 2025 are about Virginia Leith (The Brain That Wouldn’t Die); radio star Ransom Sherman; B movie star Judd Holdren; a screening of the myster…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:12PMThursday, September 25, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for September 25, 2025 include ones on Mercy Otis Warren, and the Beatles animated cartoon show. In no particular order, other Travalanche posts for September…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PMWednesday, September 17, 2025
BroadwayWorld is excited to announce the release of Hirschfeld’s Icons: A Poster Book, a new collection of 25 removable, ready-to-frame prints by Broadway artist and caricaturist Al Hirsch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMFriday, September 12, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for September 12, 2025 are about the 15 Best Movie Comedy Stars of All Time; an upcoming seminar series on Charlie Chaplin; and tomorrow’s 400th birthday ce…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:32PMThis is an unpaid endorsement for an online class produced by the 92nd Street Y starting in a couple of weeks. I don’t usually shill for such things (and the class is a little pricey) but …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:54AMSunday, August 31, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for August 31, 2025 are on tightrope dancer Marietta Zanfretta, and fashion model/actress Sonyale Luna. Earlier August 31 posts include new ones on: Fredric Ma…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:06AMWednesday, August 6, 2025
August 6 was the birthday of Andy Warhol, Lucille Ball, Paul Bartel, Leo Carrillo, Louella Parsons, Robert Mitchum, Hoot Gibson, Hannah Chaplin (Charlie’s mother), Bunny Breckenridge, Will…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:48AMFriday, August 1, 2025
Australian performer Marcel Cole brings a grace and ingenuity to a story that’s been told often, although not with great success: The 2012 Broadway musical “Chaplin” starring Rob McClu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PMWednesday, June 25, 2025
Thanks, Eve Golden, for the reminder that June Lockhart’s 100th birthday is upon us. June was born the day before Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush was released! I’m on vacation at the m…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:36PMWednesday, May 14, 2025
Born 100 years ago today, Oona O’Neill, Lady Chaplin (1925-1991). Those well-versed in Chaplinia will note the starting fact that this timeline means that Oona was still an infant on swadd…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:02AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
April 16 is kind of a comedy holy day ’round here. It’s the anniversary of the release date of Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box and Way Out West and Chaplin’s The Cure, and the birth…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:54AMSunday, April 13, 2025
This International Romani Day we thought we’d give you a head’s up about a new film that focuses on Charlie Chaplin’s Romani heritage and how it influenced his art. It’s directed by …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:32PMFriday, February 28, 2025
We love to share the lives of remarkable people here on Travalanche — on rare occasion they’re still alive! So it is with Diane Kiesel, a New York Supreme Court Justice for almost 20 yea…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:48AMTuesday, February 25, 2025
The standup and presenter on preshow prayers, blending dance with comedy and the night he bombed at the BBC
How did you get into comedy?I feel like comedy got into me. At university, I hoste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMThursday, February 20, 2025
By: Alix Cohen
February 19, 2025. When playwright Philip W. Chung noticed an Asian man in the cast of Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 short, The Adventurer, he was sufficiently intrigued to do so…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:15AMTuesday, February 18, 2025
The world premiere of Philip W. Chung’s My Man Kono tells the fascinating but little known true story of Toraichi Kono, chauffeur, valet and private secretary to Charlie Chaplin, who was c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:19PMSaturday, February 15, 2025
A thank you to the National Endowment for the Arts is prominently displayed on the cover of the program for My Man Kono, the new show that Pan Asian Repertory Theatre opened this week at A.R…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:42AMWednesday, February 12, 2025
Charlie Chaplin’s relationship with his Japanese immigrant chauffeur is the spine of this engaging, historical fantasia that is charmingly performed.
The post My Man Kono appeared first on…
SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:00PMTuesday, February 4, 2025
Though he was a major star in Great Britain, here in the States movie lovers are apt to know Norman Wisdom (1915-2010) from just one film, The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1967). Born right…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:12AMMonday, November 25, 2024
Blue Man Group will conclude its New York run in February 2025. The off-Broadway sensation featuring the marshmallow-catching, paint-splattering, toilet paper-spraying antics of a trio of wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMMonday, November 11, 2024
The post SMILE: The Story of Charlie Chaplin appeared first on Australian Arts Review.
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:22AMSaturday, September 21, 2024
We first became aware of (or took note of) actress Dawn Addams (Victoria Dawn Addams, 1930-1985) from her prominent role as “Ann, the TV specialist” in Charlie Chaplin’s A King in New …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:54AMFriday, July 26, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Today we rewind to 2012, when Chaplin was getting ready to premiere on Broadway. The musical, which played for 135 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre,…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:32PMThis one goes out to my friend Seth Shelden, Harpo interpreter and peace-monger extraordinaire. Today is Stanley Kubrick’s birthday. Having already done a general post on the great directo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:42PMFriday, June 21, 2024
A repurposed logo of David Byrd’s original poster for “Follies” for the one-night only concert at Carnegie Hall, June 20, 2024.June 21, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fass…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:34PMSaturday, June 15, 2024
There’s not a ton of middle ground on silent screen comedian Harry Langdon (1884-1944). The few who know him either love or hate him, and those who love him are vastly outnumbered. I’m a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:02AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Mozart Meets Chaplin in Jazz Age Animation & Flapper Fashion by Barry David Horwitz What’s not to love about an evening with Mozart at SF Opera in silent movie style, intriguing animat…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:10PMFriday, May 24, 2024
Most of us think of Charlie Chaplin’s Waterloo as arriving with the release of Monsieur Verdoux in 1947, or his exile from the U.S. in 1952. But his alienation from the public had commence…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:18AM 
