What is the shelf life of British sketch-company Monty Python? How to keep its bits, catchphrases and characters, now fifty years old, fresh out of the can? The ongoing Broadway tour of Spam…
Bill Irwin greets the audience by conveying that the performance will be around 90 minutes (by way of reassurance, he admits). In truth, the performance zips by. Irwin dazzles as he pontific…
Visiting the city of Boston during its national tour, the Second City sketch revue She The People: Girlfriends' Guide to Sisters Doing it for Themselves has landed at the Huntington Theatre …
One of Boston's long-running interactive theatrical events, now featured routinely at the American Repertory Theater's OBERON theatre in Cambridge, Old School Game Show is a madcap throwback…
By Matthew McMahan. Professor Matthew McMahan talks about the importance of understanding comedy's theatrical history: how it has evolved, what it says about a society, and why the genre sho…