There are two kinds of Monty Python fans: casual rewatchers and the devotees who can quote every sketch from memory. If ...

When most people think of the Spanish Inquisition, they typically think of torture (or Monty Python), and for good reason. Between 1478 and 1834, Catholic monarchs in Spain and Spanish territories ...

The Play visiting Yorkshire in the coming weeks, Laura Reid speaks to performer Greg Haiste and explores what to expect from the show.

Re: “Quebec adds more grist to the ridicule mill” (Opinion, March 7) ...

Horatio Nelson is famous for besting Napoleon at sea. But what did he mean by “Kiss me, Hardy”—his supposed last words?

Nearly 50 years since it first graced our TV screens, Fawlty Towers is now a brand-new stage play adapted by comedy legend John Cleese, following a sold-out West End season. The show opens at the ...

I love sports, geography, history, art and goofy stuff, and high school mascots blend a bit of all of that. I’ve combed through every high school mascot name in the country and researched where my ...

From regional Victoria to the Maracana Stadium in Rio, a club chant works just as well when it morphs into a country chant, a specific song that identifies and embraces an entire nation. At the 2014 ...

Physicists tell us that we can’t travel through time. In contrast, information – and even wisdom – can travel through time, and in both directions. The Age of Enlightenment brought a revolution in ...

The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, Inc. has been bringing effervescent operetta productions to Hyde Park since 1960. This year’s production of “The Gondoliers” continued the company’s grand tradi ...

The American Red Cross urges donors to make an appointment to give blood or platelets now to keep the blood supply as strong ...

Madama Butterfly” is one of the most frequently performed of all operas with gorgeous music that enraptures listeners. It is a masterpiece that survived a 1904 opening which flopped, and ...