As audience members wave their hands in appreciation, fingers spread next to their faces, they enter a different world where applause is silent. More and more the deaf community is breaking into ...
Tom Willard, comedy fan and recent stand up comedian, recently attended the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival and the grand opening of the National Comedy Center. Willard lost his hearing later in life and ...
Tickets are now on sale for Two River Theater's Elephant Shoes, a world premiere co-production with Deaf West Theatre, ...
Once he noticed an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter parked close to him, Robin Williams, like many other comedians, had a habit of getting crude with them. In one performance posted to YouTube ...
Is this thing on? Imagine a comedy world where microphones aren’t needed. That’s exactly the universe acclaimed American Sign Language comedian Keith Wann calls home. Born to deaf parents, the ...
On or off the job, Blake Wales talks with his hands. Mismatched wristbands frame supple, powerful digits dancing in tandem with conversational flow—each phrase punctuated by a precise judo chop. In ...
Don’t bother asking stand-up comedian Stephen Ryan, “Did you hear the one about…?” Ryan hasn’t heard your joke or any others. He’s never heard anything. He’s deaf, and that’s fine by him. For Ryan, ...
Decades ago, C.J. Jones walked into a St. Louis, Mo., public school and was told he was not allowed to sign. The Temecula Valley High School students that the deaf entertainer performed for Tuesday ...
Standing in line on the sidewalk in front of the Nuyorican Poets Café is usually a time of sensory overload. The performance space, located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is best known for ...
Home > Features > The deaf comedy divide in our sitting room by Charlie Swinbourne 6th January 2011 Just before Christmas, Leslie Nielsen, the Canadian star of madcap comedy films Airplane! and Naked ...
The most unique New Year’s Eve Party this year in Manteca will arguably take place at the Deaf Comedy Club. The California ...
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