North America / Global About Blog Puppet Slamwich celebrates puppetry for adult audiences in all of its forms, from traditional to experimental, as well as related genres, such
as vaudeville, cabaret, toy and Object Theater.
Unsettling and disorienting, her works cross disciplines and borrow from such varied sources
as vaudeville, modern dance, musical theater, and historical drama.
presents
itself as a Vaudeville act, in which the titular frog is performing to entertain an audience: perhaps you and the child you're trading turns with...
Moe Howard, Curly Howard and Larry Fine shot to fame in the»30s and»40s
as vaudeville act The Three Stooges.
Erich von Stroheim commands the screen
as a vaudeville sharpshooter who hates women but falls in love with his beautiful assistant — who manipulates his affections so she can get him to murder her husband.
I would personally argue that Ms. Cyrus is less talented than you claim and this type of misdirection is as old
as vaudeville: «with gams like that, who cares if she can sing?»
Unnervingly, the viewer assimilates with the gallery as involuntarily
as the vaudevilles to cinema.
Not exact matches
Lear's folly does not play well
as theological
vaudeville.
When debate about an artist's merit no longer seems to have any point, one is left either with an icon of culture, too sacred to enjoy, or with a target of satire, brought down to our more humdrum level by a
vaudeville lampooning of the unapproachable totem,
as when graffiti artists paint a moustache on reproductions of the Mona Lisa.
As the business of baseball evolved and the professional leagues stopped hiring castoffs from
vaudeville, the umpire's apparel became less formal and more functional.
A deal was struck recently, but the future of the theater, which opened in 1912
as a former silent movie and
vaudeville house, is uncertain.
The St. George Theatre — which is currently run by a nonprofit — first opened in 1929 by Solomon Brill of the Isle Theatrical Company
as a movie and
vaudeville house, according to their website.
Regularly showing classic movies —
as well
as hosting touring Broadway productions — the Ohio Theatre is a traditional date venue in downtown Columbus; with a proud history stretching back to the days of
Vaudeville, the theatre has seen generations of lovers enjoy an evening out together right here.
U.S. filmgoers were by and large unaware that Arau had long been a popular
vaudeville, theater, and TV performer, and had built his Mexican film reputation
as an independent producer / director, beginning with 1969's The Barefoot Eagle.
She also toured with the
vaudeville burlesque show Able's Baggy Pants Burlesque and the Mercer Brothers» show Giggles Galore
as a dancer
as well
as a comedy - skit performer.Smith also received a degree in elementary education from the University of Missouri and has worked extensively in the casting industry.
He is good and persuasive
as the adult Charlie when the material allows, and close to brilliant when he does some of Charlie's early
vaudeville and film sketches.
Eddy Waller's career moved along the same channels
as most western comedy - relief performers: medicine shows,
vaudeville, legitimate theatre, movie bit parts (from 1938) and finally the unshaven, grizzled, «by gum» routine.
By 1919, he was living in Los Angeles, unemployed and considering a move into
vaudeville, when instead he found regular work
as an extra at Universal Studios.
During his early adulthood, Anderson worked
as a straight man in
vaudeville and burlesque.
The son of
vaudeville and burlesque performers, George O'Hanlon made his own stage bow
as a dancer at age 16 — only to be fired after a few weeks over a salary dispute.
Regardless, Fracture is, indeed, a fractured feature which establishes itself
as a taut psychological thriller early on only to undercut an intriguing premise with comical 11th hour courtroom antics comparable to the
vaudeville act of Pigmeat Markham.
The Dude and Sobchak begin
as caricatures too, but they're allowed to grow into something deeper, if only because the humanist economy of the Coens» surrealist
vaudeville allows for a couple of human beings within the tapestry of freaks.
With
vaudeville's decline in the later 1920s, he tried attending college but dropped out of Harvard after just three months, preferring to make a living
as a stevedore on the New York docks, and he also later served
as a seaman on a tanker.
A former manager for Woolworths, Michael Whalen performed
as a radio and
vaudeville singer before entering films in 1935.
Davis started his career in
vaudeville as a hoofer at age 3, was bullied in the armed forces, faced death threats for dating white women and worked with MLK during the civil rights movement.
From the time
vaudeville star Mae Murray arrived in Hollywood in 1916, Leonard gradually became her principal director, he abandoned his own career
as a movie actor by 1918, but did make unbilled cameo appearances in later films.Murray's headstrong behavior and open contempt of the studio bosses at Famous Players - Lasky (i.e., Paramount) kept both of them on a slippery slope in this period, but her great popularity with audiences likewise kept the Murray / Leonard team employed.
In between his grey - haired later roles and beginnings in
Vaudeville, Grant first became a star in Hollywood thanks to his roles
as a comic leading man in screwball comedies.
Among the cast, only Sun Hunglei,
as the easily corrupted cop, resists the slide toward
vaudeville.
Watching a bunch of Vitaphone shorts is
as close
as we can ever come to catching a night of
vaudeville at the Palace.
, which talks about the film's prolonged pre-production process
as Chaplin developed the story, the film's relatively short shooting schedule, and how the film recreated Chaplin's
vaudeville past in London.
A shame, then, that for his one Oscar - nominated performance — for best supporting actor
as the wary, heartfelt son of 1960s activists still on the run from the FBI in Running On Empty — he lost to Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda, the sort of dotty
vaudeville turn (see also John Gielgud in Arthur) that can sometimes be the wild card in the supporting categories.
It tells the story of showman P.T. Barnum, the original creator of the
vaudeville show known
as the circus.
Flashbacks trace Cohan's rise, from a childhood performing in his family's
vaudeville act to his early days
as a struggling Tin Pan Alley songwriter to his overwhelming success
as an actor, writer, director and producer known for patriotic songs like «Yankee Doodle Dandy,» «You're a Grand Old Flag» and «Over There.»
He was based on a drop - out know - it - all autodidact named W.J.M. Bottle, who was billed in
vaudeville as Datas, The Memory Man.
Filmed live, Mr. Peepers feels like a
vaudeville comedy routine, with Peepers going on dull «adventures» (his words) such
as a surprise birthday party put on by his girlfriend Nancy, the school nurse, and a comic save - the - day sewing job on a costume for the school play.
But just
as the early days of radio (say, the late 1920s to early 1930s) consisted mostly of performances by old
vaudeville acts and could be heard only within about 5 miles of the transmitter, the great days of the podcast lie ahead.
Vaudeville acts also were filmed
as talkies and could perhaps be considered the first music videos.
I find it rather condemning that you would call me «too
vaudeville» for this position
as it appears to me you are a «blogger» with a tendancy for arrogance in your writings.
In this era of talking dogs — from the animated creatures in Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» to those so easily found «conversing» on the Internet — it might behoove us to remember the first «real» one, the star of a
vaudeville act known
as Don the Talking Dog.
His act consisted of answering a series of questions served up by his regular straight man and interpreter, a
vaudeville veteran known
as Loney Haskell.
«Radical
Vaudeville» «Radical
Vaudeville» will be a big group show of paintings, drawings & sculpture by newly emerging
as well
as established mid-career artists — opens July 22 — August 13, 2005
In the 1930s, when Avery was a struggling artist, together with his wife they would often go to various
vaudeville and circus performances and Avery would use performers
as free live models.
Drexler had considerable exposure to the performing arts
as a child, attending
vaudeville acts with her friends and family.
MFTA is pleased to join the fray with WasteDiversions: Sculpture and Collage from New York's Waste Stream, an exhibition of new work by artists from MFTA recipients Culture Push and
Vaudeville Park,
as well
as participants in Friends of MFTA's open studio program.
MFTA Gallery is pleased to present WasteDiversions: Sculpture and Collage from New York's Waste Stream, an exhibition of new work by artists from MFTA recipients Culture Push and
Vaudeville Park,
as well
as participants in Friends of MFTA's open studio program.
Materials for the Arts Gallery presents WasteDiversions: Sculpture and Collage from New York's Waste Stream, an exhibition of new work by artists from MFTA recipient groups Culture Push and
Vaudeville Park,
as well
as participants in Friends of MFTA's open studio program.
Maybe this act, this work, this thing (2016) observes
vaudeville performers mimicking the mechanics of the projector, representing the moment when cinema replaced theatre
as the popular site of entertainment.
A maelstrom of references and influences from
vaudeville to film noir to modern dance, Sullivan's appropriation of classic filming styles, period costumes, and contemporary spaces (such
as corporate offices) draws the viewer's attention away from traditional narratives and towards an examination of performance itself.
Atherton has used the art gallery
as «theatre» to question art and the artist «performer» relative to the wider cultural influences of mass entertainment, including the performer in
vaudeville or stand - up comedy.
According to Maciunas, the aim of Fluxus was to revolutionize the creative world in order to bring about a closer integration of life and art; a type of art with no barriers between the genres, and which embraced
as many artistic activities
as possible, from
vaudeville to «found objects» and junk art.