He may have been the world’s most famous mime, but in this play, he won't shut up

‘Marcel on the Train’ Off Broadway Review: The World’s Best Mime Busts the Nazis

If good intentions made for good art, then every biopic about Jesus Christ, from “The Robe” to “The Greatest Story Ever Told” to “The Passion of the Christ,” would be a work of art rather than the bombastic piece of junk that they are. Other such worthy subjects are racism, homophobia, sexism and anti-Semitism, especially as unleashed during the Holocaust. Marshall Pailet and Ethan Slater’s “Marcel on the Train,” which opened Sunday at the Class…

Resistance: Marcel on the Train & Twelve Minor Prophets

Telling the story of Marcel Marceau’s little-known Holocaust heroism, in ‘Marcel on the Train,’ Ethan Slater resists the bio-play-hero headwinds. ‘Twelve Minor Prophets’ takes on art, grief, and Judaism in the present.

‘Marcel on the Train’ Considers How an Iconic Artist Was Shaped by Dark Times

A new play by Marshall Pailet and Ethan Slater introduces us to mime’s biggest star as a young man trying to save Jewish children in Nazi-occupied France.

He may have been the world’s most famous mime, but in this play, he won't shut up

There is a kind of sublime poetry in Marcel Marceau’s first act. As a young man in occupied France, Marceau (then Mangel) forged identity papers and shepherded dozens of Jewish children across the Alps to Switzerland. In scenarios where staying quiet was essential for survival, Marceau soothed his charges into silence with his own. In Marcel on the Train, Ethan Slater and Marshall Pailet’s play of Marceau’s pre-Bip life, the world’s most famous …

REVIEW | ‘Marcel on the Train’ finds the bravery behind the beret

Before Marcel Marceau became the world’s most famous mime, he was a 20-year-old Jewish man escorting children across Nazi-occupied France with forged identity papers and no military training. That moment in his early life anchors Marcel on the Train, Marshall Pailet and Ethan Slater’s new historical drama making its world premiere at Classic Stage Company (CSC). Pailet directs, and Slater stars as Marceau. Running approximately 100 minutes witho…

'Marcel on the Train' Review: A Famous Mime's Little-Known Back Story

NEW YORK -- Just a wild guess: Cracking jokes in front of an officer who's sporting a swastika armband and scrutinizing the papers of four young Boy Scouts, in 1943, is a risky move. Especially since the papers are forged…