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As I mentioned in my last post, we saw CirColombia’s Urban at the New Victory. It’s a circus made up  entirely of graduates of Circos Par Todos, Colombia’s National Circus  School and a program for kids in the toughest barrio’s and favelas of  Colombia. The idea is to get kids out of the ghettos using the power of circus. Wonderful […]

The New Victory starts its new season this week.  I have extolled their virtues many times on these pages and others– I do a lot of reviews of their shows.  (Hey, they present lots of great stuff, and they have been giving me tickets to see stuff in hopes I write about it.  Perfect system for me!  But, gentle readers,  […]

Basketball clowns the Harlem Globetrotters will be performing/playing on October 7 at the brand new Barclay Center at 5 pm.  They are offering clownlink.com readers $7 off of tickets with the code TROTTER. http://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/event/harlem-globetrotters-grand-opening-barclays-center On that page you can also vote to change the rules of the game, and the Globetrotters agree to abide by it.  4 point shots.  Two […]

On Monday, September 24 2012 at 8:30 pm, the New York Clown Theatre Festival will screen the first-ever “portmanteau film” project made by clowns. The film was conceived by Audrey Crabtree, Jeff Seal and Ben Model, and realized by 22 clown groups of the festival.  (and I was one of those groups!) . The individual silent movies were shot over […]

I wasn’t actually at the Clown Parade that opened the NY Clown Theatre Festival, but with all the photos that are circulating, I have a pretty good idea what went on! Here’s TimeOut’s Filip Wolnak’s amazing collection of photos: http://www.fotofilip.com/gallery/new_york_clown_theatre_festival_for_tony_72157631554984325   Here’s Jim Moore’s collection of photos from Vaudevisuals: http://vaudevisuals.com/2012/09/2012-york-clown-theatre-festival/   And here’s Eric Michael Pearson’s Pie Fight portraits from […]

You can read about the 3 shows I saw on Friday here:  On Saturday, I saw 4 more shows of the NY Clown Festival.  Here’s what I saw PERHAPS… PERHAPS… QUIZAS. I’d seen Gabriela Muñoz perform a shorter version of this show 2 years ago.  Here’s what I thought of it then.(In fact, I was the audience volunteer that got married […]

In my vain attempt to see all of the shows of the NY Clown Festival (vain because I have already failed, and I’m missing a bunch next week), I’m trying to see 9 shows this weekend.  3 on Friday, 4 on Saturday, and 2 on Sunday (I may try to top it off with a little circus Amuse Bouche, and […]

I had the chance yesterday to go to a blogger event with 5 of the Harlem Globetrotters.  They are preparing to appear in Brooklyn for the first time (Sunday October 7 at 5 pm at the Barclays Center) – click link to purchase tickets. This is the 87nth season of the Harlem Globetrotters, and throughout these seasons they’ve entertained millions of […]

There is a time-honored trope in clown theatre of the false lecture– pompous guy who purports to know everything about something gives a lecture, but weird things keep happening to him, usually due to the bumbling of his sidekick.  The concept is not original, but this production of On the Nose, which features the Happenstance Theater‘s Mark Jaster and Sabrina […]

I could not find this online for the life of me.  I considered making my own for the blog, but didn’t want to do the work. It turns out, it’s in the program! If you need descriptions of anything, you can check out our other POST that has all the details.

I saw 3/4 of Fools For Love last night (Sunday, September 9, 8:30 pm), and it’s a sweet and funny show.  (I missed the first quarter, because I had done my show just before it, and needed to take care of some stuff.)  When I walked in (trying to sneak in), the clowns both stopped, turned to me, and directed […]

The NY Clown Theater Festival 2012  starts in just a few days, and features loads of great shows.  (I’ve already featured my show and the workshops that are taking place, but there’s lots of other great stuff, including an opening pie fight, a closing funeral procession (made a little bit more real by the death of one of the prospective […]

Buffoon Anonymous in Brooklyn! My original one man show Buffoon Anonymous, 12 Steps To Inanity will be performed as part of the Brick’s 2012 New York International Clown Theatre Festival in Brooklyn NY. I’ll be featuring the festival on this blog, and blogging about it, as I’ve done for the past 4 years.  But I wanted to start that all out […]

Circus Amok is at it again! They are presenting another season of free shows in NY’s Public Parks! We’ve previously featured Circus Amok and its founder Jennifer Miller a number of times on clownlink: 2007, 2008, and 2011 Here’s the info: Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys & Girls, and Everyone Else: Circus Amok presents their 19th spectacular theatrical extravaganza:  “MOO.” FREE!  […]

This was posted on Vincenzo’ Tortorici’s Facebook Page by an old friend of his, J. Scott Frugate, who is a theatre and jazz producer in the Atlanta area http://www.jazzevangelist.net.  This is reproduced here by permission. To read our tribute remembrance, visit this post: Alas Poor Yorick An old friend and one of Atlanta’s finest entertainers – actor, comic, clown, puppeteer, […]