NOVEMBER REIGN

We have clearly been remiss about blogging this month as heartily as we'd like, but we hope to redress that in the coming weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia, hyper-millennia, and eons.

A great place to start is with a reminder that, holy crap, this is the FINAL WEEKEND for our current production, Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution, Live! Houses will get full, so do not miss your last chance to check out this one-of-a-kind amalgam of revisionist history, live television, cabaret crooning and dark clowndom!

The Greenpoint Gazette says, "Timely and funny ... draws on juxtapositions of history as old as our nation, and as new as McCain-Palin 2008. The fact that within that bloody scope we get some laughs, some sexiness, and some reflection is a tribute to the power of good writing, original work, and actual live people doing actual live things. Why don't you switch off your TV? Go see some theater."

A lot of good things come from Greenpoint, including many of our readers, so, yeah, there you go. Buy tickets HERE.

(Photo Credit: Ken Stein/Runs With Scissors Photography)

THE GREY LADY AND THE RED NOSE

Nice piece in today's New York Times about the classes we have on offer as part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival. My only quibble is that the article seems to downplay how much damn fun these classes can be. Slots are still available, so this is your last chance to sign up and learn from some of the greats in the field - Jeff Raz, Christopher Bayes, Dody DiSanto, and Eric Davis!

WE MADE A MESS

This past Friday's Parade/Pie Fight/Cabaret night was a slamtacular superccess, and, oboy, do we have the pictures (and video) to prove it.

Billy Parker from Gothamist came by, and snapped photos for the ages.

Here's a lovely video of the proceedings (thanks to Bobbi Williams/Smokifantastic):



Here's The Brick's Flickr set, featuring photos by our own Hope Cartelli.

Lynn Berg (who is also our own) has given us this Flickr stream.

No media from the cabaret, A) because it would have distracted the artists, and B) because there were so many damn people that we had to turn away 30 audience members, many of ourselves included. So to see shots from the shows themselves, well, I guess you'll just have to buy some tickets, wontcha?

CLOWNS (ALSO NEWS) ON THE MARCH!

Tonight, come behold that Procession of Pep, that Pageant of Preposterousness, the New York Clown Theatre Festival Clown Parade! It begins at Union Square, takes the L Train to Williamsburg, where it will morph into the Slapstick Smackdown known as the New York Clown Theatre Festival Pie Fight! (Participation = free, humiliation = priceless.) And after that will be an Anthology of Asininity, the New York Clown Theatre Free Preview Cabaret! Three (3) (III) free festival-branded events! One night! Millions of slavering fans! No excuses!

To celebrate the opening night of the Festival, please allow us to share with you a collection of the wonderful press we've been receiving, which will help to elucidate and expand the madness:

AROUND TOWN - The New York Times

THE EIGHT-DAY WEEK - The New York Observer

PERFORMING ARTS - Flavorpill

A RED-NOSE AFFAIR - The Village Voice

TIPS FOR TODAY - Paper Magazine

DEVON HAWKS LUDLOW CLOWNS AROUND - Nytheatre Mike

CLOWN PREVIEW - IndieTheater.org

Hope to see you tonight!