Cross the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich with doses of Monty Python, Kafka and a clown show and you get the Met Opera's "The Nose." Based on the satirical Nikolai Gogol story, "The Nose" ...

When John Cleese and his Monty Python comedy cohorts premiered “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in 1975, they had no expectations that anyone would be talking about it 50 years later. “We really ...

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...

From the ground-breaking sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus featuring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and the whole Monty Python gang, to the Monty Python films, and onto the Broadway stage with ...

The ensemble reacts to the appearance of the Nose, left, during the final dress rehearsal for Metropolitan Opera''s production of "The Nose" in New York, Tuesday March 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto ...