Archive

  • Help! I can’t stop buying things

      The most dangerous thing about researching something you’ve got a passion for is that you keep finding amazing things and falling in love with them. And everything is for sale. While mass marketing and…

  • Matt McNamara becomes a mime

      I just can’t keep up with all the neovaudeville stunts pop culture is pulling. Yet more evidence that the mainstream is catching up to the underground, as it always eventually does …  …

  • Steampunk Haunted House

      Just caught wind of this sign of the zeitgeist via tweet from @WendyRosenfield (Theater critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, blogging at ArtsJournal.com.   Produced by Third Rail Projects, Steampunk Haunted House at Abrons…

  • Family Guy VaudeVille Tribute

      I was looking for a clip of that scene in which Stewie & the child actress Olivia do a vaudeville-esque number ( "You Do," in From Method to Madness ) and found this tribute…

  • a wink and a smile

      Thanks to ‘Little Rosemary’ for turning me on to Deirdre Timmons’s documentary about ten women enrolled in Seattle’s Academy of Burlesque.   The Village Voice called A Wink and a Smile, "a look…

  • genesis

      It’s almost everyday now I discover a new lead into the rapidly expanding nebulae of what I’ve been calling NeoVaudeville for lack of an equally inclusive and equally straightforward term.   I’ve established this blog space…