DREW THE DRAMATIC FOOL bumbles into Canal Park Playhouse for the Classic Brunch Matinee series


Canal Park Playhouse is thrilled to present DREW THE DRAMATIC FOOL, created by and featuring Drew Richardson, with direction by Avner the Eccentric. DREW THE DRAMATIC FOOL begins performances on Saturday, April 21 for a limited engagement through Sunday, May 13. Performances take place at Canal Park Playhouse (508 Canal Street, between Greenwich and West Streets in Tribeca). The performance schedule is Saturdays and Sundays at 1 PM & 4 PM. The regular ticket price is $20. For tickets or more information, call OvationTix on 1-866-811-4111 or visit www.canalparkplayhouse.com.

The ancient art of brilliant bumbling is alive and well and Canal Park Playhouse, when Drew the Dramatic Fool stops in for some serious hijinks. This befuddled and crazed innocent will make you smile until your face hurts and laugh until your heart swells. Drew creates a world of visual comedy where whatever can go wrong will go worse, then triumphs with creative acts of dramatic foolery. “If you like Bill Irwin, You have to see Drew the Dramatic Fool!” —Charleston Gazette. Recommended for monkey business aficionados, from ages 3 – 103.

Brunch and dinner is available at the theater’s Waffle Iron Café before and after the shows. The menu includes hot-off-the-waffle-iron spinach, mushroom, smoked chicken sausage frittatas; French toast; and Traditional Belgian Waffles with pure Vermont maple syrup and butter as well as the house specialty The Playhouse Pink Waffle (a pink waffle with strawberries and whipped cream). New menu additions include a chocoholic fantasy, the Decadent Dark Chocolate Waffle, entree salads and gourmet sliders.

Inspired by a thousands-of-years old tradition of royal jesters, vaudeville eccentrics, silent film comedians, animated cartoons, theatrical clowns, and imperfect humans everywhere, Drew the Dramatic Fool has performed in theaters and festivals all over the US including The Arden Theatre at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Palace of Variety in Times Square, and The NY International Festival Of Clown-Theatre at Westbeth Theatre Center. Drew has created five one-man shows including The Psychology of Clumsiness (twice picked as Critic‘s Choice by The Chicago Reader), and the current Help! Help! I Know This Title is Long, But Somebody’s Trying to Kill Me! (“Ingenious”—Chicago Tribune). Drew began performing magic and juggling to compensate for his shyness. Now he plays the fool to take advantage of his increasing baldness. Drew‘s life-long personal tension between drama and foolishness gelled while studying Theatrical Clowning under the tutelage of John Towsen at Ohio University. Left speechless after his academic achievement, Drew continued his studies with Jacques Lecoq in Paris. After recovering from those experiences, Drew moved to Chicago, and finally Pittsburgh