It’s an unlikely Cinderella story: Three experimental mimes who liked playing with garbage began performing in Paris in 1972 under the name Mummenschanz, and by 1977 they were starring on Broadway. On ...

What a mouth on that guy! A thick, round tubular hole. A mouth disconnected from other parts of the face. A mouth that glides and dances, almost shouting, almost whistling, almost whispering but ...

Her experimental Swiss mime troupe took Broadway by storm in the 1970s. Now the masked performers are bringing their hard-to-describe characters back to the U.S. for a five-month national tour ...

The Swiss trio Mummenschanz has made international theater history. After 55 years, the formation is now saying goodbye with a very last tour and the program "Adieu!". Mummenschanz has been thrilling ...

Celebrating 40 years, the internationally acclaimed MUMMENSCHANZ is poised to bedazzle a whole new generation of audiences this fall and winter when the legendary mask theater company returns to North ...

The internationally successful mask theater group Mummenschanz has been awarded the Grand Culture Prize of the St. Gallen Cultural Foundation. The prize is endowed with CHF 40,000 and is only awarded ...

1 Full Cast Set For MAYBE HAPPY ENDING North American Tour 2 Cast Set For New Version of THE BODYGUARD on North American Tour It is the amazing parade of alter ego characters that causes the audience ...

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In 1977 The New York Times ran an article on Mummenschanz with the title “You’ve Never Seen Mimes Like This.” That was a long time ago. This granddaddy of wordless, whimsical nonsense spectacles is ...

After finishing a Dec. 20 to Jan. 8 run at the Skirball Performing Arts Center at New York University, Mummenschanz, the brilliant Swiss mime troupe, will bring its antics to New Jersey, offering a ...