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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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After finishing a Dec. 20 to Jan. 8 run at the Skirball Performing Arts Center at New York University, Mummenschanz, the brilliant Swiss mime troupe, will bring its antics to New Jersey, offering a ...

Almost a half-century after she co-founded Mummenschanz, Floriana Frassetto says the mime troupe’s audiences still give her the energy to perform. She and co-founders Bernie Schürch and Andres Bossard ...

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 ...