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 ...

Mummenschanz's original founders (from left) Andres Bossard, Floriana Frassetto and Bernie Schurch. Her experimental Swiss mime troupe took Broadway by storm in the 1970s. Now the masked performers ...

3 Video: Corey Stoll & Cecily Strong Unpack the Twists and Turns of WHAT HAPPENED WAS... People usually think I'm joking when I tell them that one of my favorite original Broadway cast albums is the ...

Mum's the word -- now and for the past four decades for the multinational Floriana Frassetto. For Frassetto -- born in Norfolk, Va., and raised in Italy and Spain -- life changed dramatically when she ...

"If you see some of the old photographs … we had nothing to start with. So we went to look for things we would find on the street and recycle them," Mummenschanz co-founder Floriana Frassetto ...

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 ...

Sangamon Auditorium at the University of Illinois Springfield presents Mummenschanz "you & me" on Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 3:00 pm in the UIS Sangamon Auditorium as a part of the Visiting Artist ...

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 ...