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 ...

"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 ...

T here's no music, no words, no scenery. Just 35 masks and costumes worn by four performers who act in complete silence, injecting personality and character into everyday objects. On stage, ...

They don’t speak, yet send a deep message to the heart. Those silent messages – of love, of sorrow, of rollicking laughter – have moved audiences all over the world for the past 40 years. The renowned ...

The Swiss-based physical-theater troupe Mummenschanz is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year — a pretty good run for performers who don't speak. Which is not to say they don't communicate. When ...

One of Floriana Frassetto’s favorite parts of a Mummenschanz performance is at intermission. It is then that the co-founder of the 45-year-old Swiss mask troupe goes into the audience wearing a box on ...

How much you enjoy Mummenschanz, the trio of mask and mime artists who opened a week`s run in the Civic Theatre Tuesday night, will depend on how much you can tolerate 90 minutes (including one hefty ...

The multi-city, national tour begins Nov. 17 at the UA Centennial Hall in Tucson, AZ, and continues through March 2013. The four-week New York engagement will be held at the NYU Skirball Center for ...

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 ...