Category Archives: Comedy
Pictures v. words
It’s hard to top these with text. Check out the Cody Rivers Show. I will.
Dark and funny
The Buffoons are coming. The Buffoons are coming. The Buffoons are coming back to the Fringe Festival.
So two comedians walk into a ballet studio…
My 90 minutes with Philip Glass’ Book of Longing is now already almost 27 hours past, and on top of that I have to distill some thoughts on today’s final Music in Time concert and this evening’s encounter with the extraordinary (get a ticket now at any cost) Aurelia’s Oratorio. But first, a word on [...]
Human behavior
It’s something of an understament to say that a lot of people have been looking forward to seeing newly minted MTV celebs and Comedy Festival/Piccolo alumns Human Giant in Theatre 99’s Piccolo Fringe this week. The comedy trio’s overnight success hasn’t landded them on the cover of Rolling Stone yet, but it’s not out of [...]
Of fathers, sons, and magic clowns
Yesterday afternoon, 3pm-ish found this Spoleto Buzz blogger in a mostly full Theatre 99, taking in Andrew Connor and Mike Mathieu’s quadruple threat – singing, dancing, acting, and improvising – for their mostly scripted comedy act known as The Cody Rivers Show. “Singular” is probably too mild a description for what these two Ohio Wesleyan [...]
Insert potty pun here
What do the writers of Urinetown have against bunnies? The furry little fellas die in all manner of nasty ways in the shamefully entertaining send-up of musicals at the Village Playhouse, at least anecdotally, and it’s awful hard not to giggle when they do. But bunnies are hardly the only ones to shuffle off their [...]
Big Bang
Last night’s program was exactly the prescription needed to heal what’s been ailing this Spoleto Buzz blogger in the past eight days. Faustus and L’ile de Merlin both tousled festival audiences’ hair in their ways, but so far Spoleto 07’s been absent any real, knock-your-hat off-and-lick-you-up-and-down surprises. We got it Thursday evening with the Foundry [...]
That’s ‘posse’ – with a big o
The four women of Mary Kay Has a Posse have long been stuffing locals in to Theatre 99’s various homes for the quartet of top improvisers’ brand of long-form comedy. MKHAP – former CP columnist and radio personality Jessica Chase, Jennifer Dyer-Buddin, Camille Lowman, and original Have Not! Brandy Sullivan – have since scattered to [...]
But wait, there’s more!
With the openings of Shen Wei Dance Arts and Major Bang in the rear-view mirror (I caught only the latter of those two last night; I’ll see Shen Wei tomorrow night), the Big Festival is plowing through its slate of yet-to-be-seen productions and turning them into continuing-through productions. On tonight’s docket: the opening of medEia, [...]
Getting forensic on Spoleto 2007
The 31st Spoleto Festival USA is officially in the past tense. It’s now time to get forensic on the thing. But that’s less easy than it sounds. Part of the difficulty in summing up the festival after the fact lies in its nature; as Mayor Riley noted during the mid-festival tribute to founder Gian Carlo [...]