A couple of weeks ago, I was on the Fort Greene Kids List, which I haven’t checked out in possibly years.  The Husband did something so the posts go directly into a file, because there are so many, and I never have to see them unless I open the file. Well, I was on the [...]

I felt so good, stretched out, open and exercised after two days in the studio with Dody DiSanto who taught a Neutral Mask Intensive here in New York this weekend.  An inspirational teacher, she is considered by many to be the best neutral mask teacher in America.  It was a class filled with two dozen [...]

For the last several weeks whenever “The Takeaway” on NPR “with John Hockenberry and Adora Udoji self-identified, the substitute co-host was introduced and it was explained that Adora Udoji was home with her new baby.   Well. This morning it was announced that she would not return.  Last week she informed the NPR producers that [...]

On the way home from a political fundraiser for a local dad running for political office, talk turned to how much his wife had to do to pull together the event on short notice. The Husband said of the politician dad, “He wouldn’t be possible without her.” Moments later, my mind returned to a conversation [...]

Tonight I went to White Noise, a clown show, piece of art, by Jef Johnson at Theatrelab. Unfortunately I saw it on the last night of the run, so when I say it was fascinating and definitely worth seeing, it’s too late. Tonight was the last night. I thought because I go to his labs [...]

Yes, the New York clown community has its own awards show. Flying under the radar at the Krane Theatre on the Lower East Side, last night, individuals in street clothes, were publicly acknowledged for their contributions to the art form of clown. Before and after the show there was socializing at Phoebe’s bar on Bowery [...]

We went to see Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden, last week, on Good Friday, when we Catholics are supposed to be thinking sad and sombre thoughts. Oh well. I hate Madison Square Garden! It’s an ugly inefficient maze of a construction made all the more tragic because the old [...]

We took My Kid to see La Familia Dimitri at the New Victory Theatre in Times Square. I’m so glad we did. The Clown Dimitri, even in his 70′s is still charming and adorable and his offspring, all in their 40′s, are fit and accomplished performers with careers of their own who came together for [...]

We went to see Lorenzo Pisoni’s solo show, “Humor Abuse” at the Manhattan Theatre Club last night. It was a touching performance by a man who in the 1970′s was a child clown in the San Francisco based Pickle Family Circus and who as an adult is a serious New York actor. I never saw [...]