This week in the magazine and here online (see The Critics), Dave Eggers writes a critical appreciation of Monty Python, on the eve of the opening of the Python cast member Eric Idle’s “Spamalot.” The ...

NEW YORK — Monty Python’s Flying Circus took to the stage Thursday night, a little grayer and minus (almost) the troupe’s one deceased player — but no slower on the draw, with shots aimed at each ...

Monty Python isn’t quite dead. The aging comedy troupe, which still flogs DVDs of its decades-old TV show and subsequent films with the dedication of a Spanish Inquisitor, has a new gambit for the ...