The Boston Traveler

Of all the standup comedy veterans out there making the rounds from stage to stage, Margaret Cho has always been one of my favorites.
I’ve seen several of her comedy routines, I watched her groundbreaking TV show All-American Girl that was the first (and still is the only) U.S. TV series to feature an Asian-American family, and I’ve caught her in additional guest-star roles in both movies and on television.
Heck, Cho even wrote a best-selling book, namely the 2002 autobiography I’m the One That I Want, which was based on her one-woman comedy concert of the same name. And, that’s …read more

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Tonight at 8pm EST, 72-year-old ice hockey legend Willie O’Ree will make a long-anticipated guest-star appearance on the critically acclaimed television comedy Everybody Hates Chris.
Narrated by Chris Rock, the series is based on the comedian’s experiences growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community located in Brooklyn, New York. The highly publicized segment featuring O’Ree was filmed last August, and eager hockey fans in-the-know have been waiting to see it since last fall.
O’Ree, a Canadian of African ancestry from New Brunswick, is often called the Jackie Robinson of ice hockey for his accomplishment making history when he broke the color barrier …read more

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Amazing. The Harlem Globetrotters have been around since 1926. And, no, the name of the group isn’t an indication the members are exclusively from or first came together in Harlem. The comedic basketball team actually originated in Chicago, Illinois, as simply the Globetrotters.
The name of the famous African-American community in New York City was added because it instantly called to mind — you guessed it — the African-American community, as well as the identity of the players themselves. We can all thank London-born, 5′3″ Abe Saperstein (1902–1966) for giving the world such an enduring and entertaining …read more

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When Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan acquired the worldwide rights to Swiss playwright Paul Portner’s murder mystery Scherenschnitt, they couldn’t have known that the renamed and reformed work Shear Madness would become the phenomenal global success it has.
Now some 28 years after its January 1980 premiere and, according to the website, over 11,000 performances, the stage hit has earned its spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running play in the history of American theater.
Shear Madness is currently available in three U.S. locations: Boston, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, with the first two productions permanent. The local …read more

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