Clowning
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
iL FUNGO presents Saturnalia: A Holiday Bacchanal (in LA)
Yard Theater 4319 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesiL FUNGO is an LA-based bouffon troupe starring Deidre Scott, Grant O’Connell, Joshua Kilcoyne, Mike Rose, Starlette Cravens, Tiffany Lawrence and Tyler Ramirez. Directed by Dean Evans. Starts 9PM PT
Piggy Time (in LA)
Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Café 2106 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPiggy Time is a comedy-variety show. A beautiful disaster. A wild time. A massive belly flop into a pool of extreme stupidity. It's very bad. It's been going on for years and you are allowed to buy a ticket and come if you like. FEATURING: Fumi Abe Kevin Krieger Ian Farley Nikki Hartung Isaac Kessler Lauren Lopez George McAuliffe Mike O’Brien Jason Palmer Katie Wilbert Hosted and Curated by: John Norris (SNL) ((Did a showcase and some of the writers […]
Tomorrow! w/Ron Lynch (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA variety show that is in it's 17th year of lauded late night lunacy. A rotating roster of top comedians, clowns (the new kind), specialty acts, musicians, and performance artists. Not to be missed! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) Featuring: Tony Camin, Jay London, Emily Maverick, Jack Shaw, Jenny Lynne, Ahmed Bharoocha w/Davey Johnson Presented by Ron Lynch Starts Midnight
Tomorrow! w/Ron Lynch (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA variety show that is in it's 17th year of lauded late night lunacy. A rotating roster of top comedians, clowns (the new kind), specialty acts, musicians, and performance artists. Not to be missed! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) Featuring: Kristen Lundberg, Allen Strickland Williams, Alex Hooper, Chad Opitz, Gabby Gutierrez-Reed, and music from Protect Me w/Davey Johnson Presented by Ron Lynch Starts Midnight
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
Peas in a Pod: An Existential Crisis (in LA)
Public Displays of Altadena 2553 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Altadena, CA, United Stateshis is a comedy show where two women, Kami Dimitrova and Dione Kuraoka, do a lot of fun duo characters and clown while they also talk about each other's trauma WHILE their friend/lover Lane presents his fun ideas too Starts 5PM PT
Tomorrow! w/Ron Lynch (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA variety show that is in it's 17th year of lauded late night lunacy. A rotating roster of top comedians, clowns (the new kind), specialty acts, musicians, and performance artists. Not to be missed! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) Featuring: Tony Camin, Jay London, Emily Maverick, Jack Shaw, Jenny Lynne, Ahmed Bharoocha w/Davey Johnson Presented by Ron Lynch Starts Midnight
Tomorrow! w/Ron Lynch (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA variety show that is in it's 17th year of lauded late night lunacy. A rotating roster of top comedians, clowns (the new kind), specialty acts, musicians, and performance artists. Not to be missed! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) Featuring: Kristen Lundberg, Allen Strickland Williams, Alex Hooper, Chad Opitz, Gabby Gutierrez-Reed, and music from Protect Me w/Davey Johnson Presented by Ron Lynch Starts Midnight
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
The Idiot’s Hour! In NYC Clown Show (in NYC)
Sunflower Glass Company Smoke Shop 220 Thompson Street, New York, NY, United StatesWelcome to "The Idiot's Hour," a whimsical and delightfully absurd Avante-Garde clown show that will transport you to another dimension. This is an alternative variety comedy show, reg comedy has a formula, "The Idiot's Hour" has no formula. It's raw, vulnerable, experimental and expressive. Please be ready for something different, but very entertaining. Thank you very much. Your Host: Matthew Silver Starring: Bryan Fernandez, Julia Vanderveen, Julia Salvato & Lindsey Jo Scott, Steve Girard, Lola Broward, Riley Soloner, and Mike […]
Tonight! a clown who wanted to be loved? (in LA)
Yard Theater 4319 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe struggle of a clown who just wants to be loved. It might sound poetic, but it's sincerely stupid. It's a show where a man who doesn't speak English tries everything he knows to get the only thing he wants. To be loved? Expect absurdity, eye contact, not much talking. Andrea Barello is an Italian clown who for obscure reasons is based in Los Angeles, where he creates silly clown acts. Tonight! is his first solo show. Starts 8PM PT
Tomorrow! w/Ron Lynch (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA variety show that is in it's 17th year of lauded late night lunacy. A rotating roster of top comedians, clowns (the new kind), specialty acts, musicians, and performance artists. Not to be missed! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) Featuring: Tony Camin, Jay London, Emily Maverick, Jack Shaw, Jenny Lynne, Ahmed Bharoocha w/Davey Johnson Presented by Ron Lynch Starts Midnight
Tomorrow! w/Ron Lynch (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA variety show that is in it's 17th year of lauded late night lunacy. A rotating roster of top comedians, clowns (the new kind), specialty acts, musicians, and performance artists. Not to be missed! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) Featuring: Kristen Lundberg, Allen Strickland Williams, Alex Hooper, Chad Opitz, Gabby Gutierrez-Reed, and music from Protect Me w/Davey Johnson Presented by Ron Lynch Starts Midnight
Clown Church & Clown Show (in LA)-CANCELLED
Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Café 2106 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States7-8pm Clown Church is an interactive experience that offers participants an opportunity to reimagine comedy through the art of presence. This experience is designed to help people descend into their bodies and into a more beautiful state of being. It is geared towards people who are looking to be more playful and alive. It evolved from improvisation as well as Taoist philosophy and is for anyone who wants to find that part of themselves that lives in wonder. No experience needed. […]
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
Tomorrow! w/Ron Lynch (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA variety show that is in it's 17th year of lauded late night lunacy. A rotating roster of top comedians, clowns (the new kind), specialty acts, musicians, and performance artists. Not to be missed! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) Featuring: Kristen Lundberg, Allen Strickland Williams, Alex Hooper, Chad Opitz, Gabby Gutierrez-Reed, and music from Protect Me w/Davey Johnson Presented by Ron Lynch Starts Midnight
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
Tender Meat presents: Trashy Love Songs (Hosted by Kevin Krieger) (in LA)
Yard Theater 4319 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesLos Angeles bouffon ensemble Tender Meat brings a menagerie of of comics, musicians and clowns for the trashiest of holidays: Valentine's Day. Hosted by LA's own Cutie-pie Cupid, Kevin Krieger, and joined by musician Hannah Rose Dexter, comic Jeremy Weinrich and clown, Caroline Cummings, TRASHY LOVE SONGS is (almost) guaranteed to give you and your loved one (or two) a Valentine's Day to remember! Starts 9PM PT
Oil & Water (in LA)
Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Café 2106 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesOil & Water features Ian Farley who will attempt to do his favorite 5-minutes routines for 60 minutes. Some the routines of them will flow Several of these routines were first developed at the Lyric Theater and there making their return for one night only. Don't miss your chance to see Oil & Water! Ian is a local Los Angeles performer and comedian who has ventured into the scary unknown of clown. He's performed with several ensembles in the Los […]
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
Darling Tallie (in LA)
Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Café 2106 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDARLING TALLIE is a hybrid dance night + comedy show hosted by Tallie Medel (EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, BROAD CITY, COCOON CENTRAL DANCE TEAM), with your favorite comedians, dance breaks and a dance contest. Come hot and ready to grind. Your crush is watching... featuring JOEL KIM BOOSTER FAT TONY JAMIE LOFTUS DANIEL SCHEINERT GRAM CAÑON and backup dancers THE BOLD STOMPERS Starts 9:30PM PT
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
FEELINGS: A Solo Clown Show by Elodie Azoulay (near LA)
Public Displays of Altadena 2553 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Altadena, CA, United StatesSomewhere between a TED talk, a preschool classroom, and group therapy, FEELINGS is Elodie Azoulay's first *Work in Progress* solo clown show where they explore the mystifying territory of feelings. As they attempt to demonstrate their “expertise” on feelings like "happiness" "sadness" "anger" and "shame", the lines between different feelings, between fact and fiction, start to blur. The coping mechanisms they demonstrate to the crowd start to fail and confuse. And we start to see what they are actually coping […]
The Amazing Banana Brothers (in NYC)
Soho Playhouse 15 Vandam Street, New York, NY, United StatesYou either die an artist or you live long enough to see yourself become a stuntman. For this Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated show, Bill O’Neill uses every trick up his sleeve to explore the oldest one in the book. Directed by Natalie Palamides (Nate, Netflix), this hilarious spectacle follows two daredevil brothers attempting the impossible — slipping on 1000 banana peels. Through a surreal exploration of loss, failure, masculinity and death-defying pratfalls, O’Neill challenges the limits of the human body and […]
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
The Amazing Banana Brothers (in NYC)
Soho Playhouse 15 Vandam Street, New York, NY, United StatesYou either die an artist or you live long enough to see yourself become a stuntman. For this Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated show, Bill O’Neill uses every trick up his sleeve to explore the oldest one in the book. Directed by Natalie Palamides (Nate, Netflix), this hilarious spectacle follows two daredevil brothers attempting the impossible — slipping on 1000 banana peels. Through a surreal exploration of loss, failure, masculinity and death-defying pratfalls, O’Neill challenges the limits of the human body and […]
Focaccia! (in LA)
Yard Theater 4319 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesZoog Dabbity and his carnival of idiots put on a show so ambitious that it brings about the Singularity. WARNING: This show is not about bread. Do not bring your own bread. Do not wear your own bread costume. CAST: - Meadow - Danny Tee - Isabel Klein - Sarah Shtern - Federico Slezynger - George Aivaliotis ACTS: - Emily Maverick - Ron Lynch - Clowns of Color Starts 9PM PT
Tomorrow! w/Ron Lynch (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA variety show that is in it's 17th year of lauded late night lunacy. A rotating roster of top comedians, clowns (the new kind), specialty acts, musicians, and performance artists. Not to be missed! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) Featuring: Reuben Solo, Chris Thayer, Karen Hall, Jack Brown, Oscar, Music from Gal Musette w/Davey Johnson Presented by Ron Lynch Starts Midnight
The Crisis (in LA)
Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Café 2106 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAt the heart of The Crisis is the friendship between Dione Kuraoka (Pea #1) and Kami Dimitrova (Pea #2), a couple-a peas in a pod who are hellbent on putting on the show of their dreams! There's just one problem—they each have very different ideas of what the show should be, and things are starting to crack at the seams. To make matters worse, a lowly stagehand janitor (Lane Koivu) hired to help with transitions starts to wedge his way […]
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
Tomorrow! w/Ron Lynch (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA variety show that is in it's 17th year of lauded late night lunacy. A rotating roster of top comedians, clowns (the new kind), specialty acts, musicians, and performance artists. Not to be missed! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) Featuring: Reuben Solo, Chris Thayer, Karen Hall, Jack Brown, Oscar, Music from Gal Musette w/Davey Johnson Presented by Ron Lynch Starts Midnight
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
Tomorrow! w/Ron Lynch (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA variety show that is in it's 17th year of lauded late night lunacy. A rotating roster of top comedians, clowns (the new kind), specialty acts, musicians, and performance artists. Not to be missed! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) Featuring: Reuben Solo, Chris Thayer, Karen Hall, Jack Brown, Oscar, Music from Gal Musette w/Davey Johnson Presented by Ron Lynch Starts Midnight
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
Karey (in LA)
Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Café 2106 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA suburban fever dream — a frolic through natures man’s most cultivated and demanding woman landscapes. This show is an ode to the lawn. An ode to the "Howdy Neighbor's!", "Lawn's lookin' good!" and "Swell!". But what is really behind your neighbor's lush, perfect square of green stalks? This show is a journey through a penultimate HOA meeting to see who really holds the power in our world. It's a clown. It’s horror. It's absurd. It's comedy. It’s Karen Karrie. […]
Clown Church & Clown Show (in LA)
Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Café 2106 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States7-8pm Clown Church is an interactive experience that offers participants an opportunity to reimagine comedy through the art of presence. This experience is designed to help people descend into their bodies and into a more beautiful state of being. It is geared towards people who are looking to be more playful and alive. It evolved from improvisation as well as Taoist philosophy and is for anyone who wants to find that part of themselves that lives in wonder. No experience needed. […]
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.
SPECTACULUM: works in progress (near LA)
Public Displays of Altadena 2553 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Altadena, CA, United StatesSPECTACULUM is a show. An experience. Part clown. Part theater. Incredibly Sacred and Complete Bullshit. A group of mostly attractive idiots have come together to create a show that has been incubated over a month. If you're looking for a literal description of the show... Good Luck. Featuring: Max Baumgarten John Norris Bill O’Neill Claire Woolner Co-Deviser/Writer: Sam Fishman Directed by John Norris & Corey Podell Coordinator/Producer: Jackie Skinner Starts 9PM PT
Playspace (Clown Open Mic) @ The Elysian (in LA)
The Elysian 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt’s The Elysian’s very own PLAYSPACE! A weekly community event to play together, workshop ideas big and small, or come completely unprepared and find something new. Playspace is not a show, it’s not a stand-up open mic. It’s a place where you get to hang out and go on stage and do that thing you do. Solo performers and ensembles welcome! Sign-up 5PM PT Starts 6PM PT Hosted by Rachel Ho, Paul Schlesinger, & friends Follow @__playspace__ on Instagram for updates.