Jango warned us that we would experience a let down after the workshop is over, and it is true.  I am feeling very much alone here in my apartment while My Kid is at school and The Husband is at work.  But, thankfully, I have a performance coming up on Monday to keep my mind [...]

OK I’m awake and thinking of the novelty facebook quiz I took last night, what mental illness are you, that told me I was panic anxiety disorder and so now I have awakened in the middle of the night wondering if that is true.
Maybe that’s why Kendall is always telling me I look confused.
Maybe that’s [...]

It’s lovely to have choices.  There were two different Downtown Clown options in Manhattan this evening.  The New York Downtown Clown Revue had the Bongar Challenge: enter, be really funny, exit in 3 minutes.  And over at the Flea Theatre Greg DeSanto was showing clips from his vast collection of comedy videos.  I chose the [...]

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 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 [...]

We went to the Big Apple Circus, yesterday, My Kid, the Husband and I.  It is our holiday tradition.  Although on the way to the circus tent I pointed out to my long-limbed daughter the well dressed crowds coming out of The Nutcracker matinee and the posters advertising the upcoming production of Coppelia.  My Kid [...]

As The Husband and My Child are playing miniature air hockey (it’s really cute 6-inch table we got at the gift shop of the Please Touch Museum) on the train from Trenton, as we make our way back to Brooklyn from Philadelphia, it seems as good a time as any to write a blog entry.
Halfway [...]

I saw Gypsy on Broadway today!
OK I think I myself was completely warped by playing “Dainty June” in a UM Summer Stock production of Gypsy.  My  New York stage clown friends frequently try to get me to stop being “ON” in front of an audience and I realize now there was some feeling of sucess [...]