John Cleese News

With families being less likely to go to theaters, Paramount is looking for a new U.S. release date. The initial rumor was that the film was pushed a week to September 22, but this is untrue. No date has been revealed at this time.

Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn was today awarded  the Critics Circle Award for Services to the Arts, the Critics Circle’s highest honour. Every year since 1988, the Critics’ Circle has voted for a single leading artist to receive an engraved crystal rose bowl in recognition of their distinguished contribution to the arts.

The international smash-hit, Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is returning to Adelaide from 19 February to 7 March at the Adelaide Oval as part of the Adelaide Fringe.

Damian Bazadona, the Co-Founder of TEDx Broadway, will be the featured guest lecturer at One Day University on Friday, December 11, 2020 beginning at 4:00pm EST.

Monkey Barrel Records are proud to announce their new release “John-Luke Roberts: It Is Better.” Brought to you by the team behind the award-winning Monkey Barrel Comedy, Monkey Barrel Records is the new home of exclusive comedy vinyl records, showcasing some of the best of Live Comedy.

SHADOWLAND STAGES today announced that the theatre will present a special online benefit reading of CHRISTMAS EVE 1953, a short story by Tom Hanks that has been adapted for the stage by SHADOWLAND STAGES' artistic associate, James Glossman.

Dubai Opera has announced the highly anticipated Dubai debut of “The World's Funniest Man”, the one and only John Cleese! John will bring his legendary wit and unmatched charm to captivate audiences at Dubai Opera with two performances of his show entitled Monty Pyton's John Cleese- Alive! (Just) – on December 15th and 16th

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the critically acclaimed international immersive phenomenon that will celebrate its tenth year in London's West End in 2021, resumed Covid-secure performances at the Radisson Blu Edwardian in Bloomsbury in October.

Paul Hogan plays himself in this raucous comedy.

Dance Attic Studios transfers its in-house produced show Going Ape!, written by Andrew Corbet Burcher, which challenges both religion and science by bringing together various a?oefirsta?? humans, to the Union Theatre in November 2020.

Due to implications of COVID-19 and the current international border restrictions, we regret to announce that the 2020 edition of the Just For Laughs Sydney Comedy Festival scheduled for this November will not take place. 

John Cleese talks about the connection between play and creativity and opens up about his creative process.

Friday, September 4: Guests Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) and Gayle King (Editor-at-large of O, The Oprah Magazine and Gayle King In the House). Thomas Lang sits-in with the 8G Band. (OAD 8/19/20)

The Southbank Centre today announces details about Inside Out, a brand-new online season of music, literature and comedy from 17 September - 30 December.

Gulfshore Playhouse, Naples' premier professional theater, will open its 2020-21 season with the world premiere of 'Higher,' written by and starring Jeffrey Binder, associate artistic director of Gulfshore Playhouse, and directed by Kristen Coury, founder and producing artistic director of Gulfshore Playhouse.

BritBox, the subscription streaming service from BBC Studios and ITV with the largest collection of British television content in North America, will launch the full BBC Television Shakespeare Collection on May 26.

As Gulfshore Playhouse, Naples' premier professional theater, looks to the future, it does so with the safety of its artists, staff, students, patrons and wider community as its top priority.

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the best TV episodes from the 1950's to 2020; see if your favorites made the list!