Marcel Marceau and Rob Mermin in 1999 Credit: Courtesy of Rob Mermin What’s mime got to do with being Jewish? Nothing, particularly. Except that legendary mime artist Marceau (1923-2007), a longtime ...

It was The Red Skelton Show in 1965 that not only inspired a young Rob Mermin, but was to determine his future. The great French mime Marcel Marceau joined Skelton, himself a mime as well as comic, in ...

The experience was beyond transformative. Marceau became Mermin’s mentor, a relationship that continued through four decades. Experiences included Marceau’s 1999 visit to Vermont to perform a benefit ...

Playhouses aren’t just for plays anymore. At least not if mime shows at two key Southland venues this summer are an indication. Geoff Hoyle’s “Feast of Fools” closed recently at the La Jolla Playhouse ...

Through his movements alone, Marcel Marceau brings an invisible reality to life. The art of mime is something of a lost art, but one of Marceau s longtime students is determined to keep it from ...