This afternoon… After spending several hours in the studio with the clown women working in ensemble, I escorted My Kid uptown where we stopped for a few moments in front to the Plaza Hotel to enjoy the acrobatic stylings of the Breeze Team performing their breakdance tricks with comedic flair for the tourists in front [...]

Adam’s all gaga over his baby he wasn’t there. Well I wasn’t there either. But, we checked the box office at “Humor Abuse” to see if there were tickets. (Tonight’s show was sold out but we have tickets for tomorrow night.) We got to see lots of clowns I know in front of the theatre. [...]

OK so the big sign was promoting McDonald’s Sweet Tea 230 calories –32oz LIKE THAT’S A GOOD THING!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????? McDonald’s small fries = 230 calories… just sayin’…

Mrs Rosenfeld had just finished cleaning her kitchen for Passover when we arrived at 4 o’clock. The cupboards and drawers were empty and the countertops were bare. She was in the process of sending her two sons aged 2 and 3 outside with a teenage girl and a baby in a stroller. “Go for a [...]

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By Saturday I was so exhausted I was afraid I would forget to show up for my own performance in “Clownical Trials” at Theatrelab. It has been a very long week. It began to go south a week ago Saturday at 8:00 am when the buzzer rang while we were still asleep. It was the [...]

Shiela Callahan’s “Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play” closing tonight at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in the West Village and the 2008 film “Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day” starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams don’t have a damn thing in common except that I saw them both within the same 24-hour period. S0 these two [...]

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So Jef is coming back into town and he wants to remount “Clownical Trials”.   The other day, I went to the Guggenheim with my daughters entire 3rd grade.   Last time it was during the first incarnation of “Clownical Trials” at Theatrelab and I thought.  This exhibit is weird.  Jef’s show is weird.  These [...]

As part of the Learning Through Art Program of the Guggenheim Museum Third Graders asked What is the ideal environment in which we can grow and thrive? We looked at environments we knew well: home, school, playground.  We looked at the ways in which Native Americans who lived here 400 years ago valued and used [...]