Masquers Playhouse has launched a fascinating bit of local historical fiction with George Brant’s “Into the Breeches!” The ...

Insert amateur thespians into a modernized World War II version of a Shakespeare play with an all-female cast and what do you get? A possible hit for the play-within-a-play — and a barrelful of big ...

Some Like It Hot, Blazing Saddles, and His Girl Friday are all among the absolute greatest, most timeless classic comedy movies.

Of all the cinematic genres, comedy is the hardest to truly master. Humor is so context-dependent, and changes so wildly from person to person (let alone between generations) that many comedies ...

A good dumb comedy movie can be just the tonic you need after a long and tiring day. They allow us to switch off our brains and simply enjoy whatever silly amusements they have in store for us. While ...

He will be Groucho again on June 11, when he performs his critically acclaimed one-man, two-act show, “Frank Ferrante’s Groucho,” at Teatro ZinZanni, that lively theatrical oasis in the Loop.

Actor Frank Ferrante joins Rick Kogan to talk about his 40th year playing Groucho Marx on stage and to discuss the Marx brothers’ Chicago history. Groucho’s grandson Andy Marx also chats with Frank ...

Groucho Marx played Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, president of Huxley College, in 1932's "Horse Feathers.” The rollicking satire about a sports-mad university rings even truer today.

Comedy is at its best when at its most chaotic and unpredictable, as seen in hilarious movies like Airplane! and Everything Everywhere All at Once.

To their credit, the broad and sometimes cruel aspects of the physical comedy are continually punctuated by Groucho’s wisecracks, provided in A Day at the Races by no fewer than seven credited and ...

Comedy is the most controversial genre in film, but we should be able to agree that these are the best. The post The 16 undisputed best comedy movies of all time appeared first on The Manual.