Interesting Grand Guignol items are few and far between on Ebay these days, so it’s pretty exciting (to me, anyway) when several show up in one week:
Original Theatre du Grand Guignol Program from 1952-53
From the listing:
ANOTHER FABULOUS FIFTIES FRENCH THEATRE PROGRAM- “DU PLOMB CES DEMOISELLES”. OF COURSE WE HAVE THE GREAT VINTAGE PHOTOS OF THE […]

The SF Weekly published critic Chloe Veltman’s formal review of our show “Flaming Sin: London’s Grand Guignol” this week (we’ve previously linked to her blog post about the show). Her review is the kind of thoughtful, in-depth look at our work that’s been all too rare over the years. While we certainly have fans among […]

Attention all Grand Guignol collectors! A copy of the March 1950 edition of the men’s pin-up magazine SEE is up for sale on eBay. This issue features a rare article about the Grand Guignol theatre. It was one of the first articles I found when I started my research in the mid 1980s, and has […]

The reviews are coming in for our current show “Flaming Sin: London’s Grand Guignol” and we’re, well… thrilled. We had no idea how people would react to an evening of Noel Coward sophistication, Grand Guignol excess, and a very “blue” floor show, but it looks like we’re not the only ones crazy enough to think […]

San Francisco public radio station KALW (91.7 FM) will feature Thrillpeddlers on the “Open Air” broadcast this Tuesday, March 25th at 1:00pm. Host Alan Farley interviews professor Richard Hand and director Eddie Muller about our U.S. Premiere production of Noel Coward’s long-lost comedy “The Better Half.”
If you’re not in San Francisco, you can listen live […]

Writer Kelli Stanley blogs about a preview performance of our new show, “Flaming Sin: London’s Grand Guignol.” She summarizes her in-depth review this way:
So even if you’re not particularly a fan of the Vault of Horror, troop down to the Hypnodrome on 10th street in San Francisco — for a twenty dollar seat, you’ll get […]

Here’s something that you don’t see every day: A first edition of Mel Gordon’s classic “Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror” for sale on eBay. Judging from the photos, it looks like it’s in really nice condition.
This is the book that inspired us to stop simply dreaming about the Grand Guignol and actually […]

Today’s edition of the University of Maryland’s student newspaper features a story on the student-produced and directed Grand Guignol play that I mentioned here yesterday. The Lab: An Experiment in Grand Guignol gets high marks from student reporter Dave Smith, though his article could have used another proof-read and a healthy dose of judicious editing:
“The […]

An actor at the University of Maryland writes about his experiences performing in a Grand Guignol production on campus:
“I’m very thankful for this opportunity to explore such an obscure artform, one that is seldom done anymore. Grand Guignol is such a melodramatic, overly-exaggerated way of theatre. It definitely goes for shock value, using realistic scenes […]

The first reviews of our new show Hypnodrome Head Trips are starting to trickle in. In her review for the San Francisco Bay Times titled “A Grand Time at Grand Guignol,” Linda Ayres-Frederick writes:
With high technical production values, Thrillpeddlers lives up to their name, delivering thrills that stimulate the mind and other portions of the […]