We would sit and listen to entire LPs in silence, my family. Our living room was like a chapel, infused with a type of ...

Micky Dolenz says the Monkees weren't a band, they were a TV show about a band. The Beatles got it. To John Lennon, they were ...

Brothers Leonard, Adolph, Julius, Milton, and Herbert Marx were born into a performing family. Their mother, Meine Shoenberg (known on stage as Minnie Palmer) was already the daughter of a ...

Does Groucho Marx still matter? You bet your life he does. The best case for his relevance is Frank Ferrante’s “An Evening With Groucho,” which the 61-year-old actor will deliver three times in ...

Playful and satirical, the Marx Brothers’ 1935 A Night at the Opera pokes fun at opera’s elitism while celebrating its spectacle, capturing the era’s ambivalence toward “high” art forms seen as both ...

This isn’t the best the Marx Bros have made but it’s a pretty funny farce. Postwar Nazi intrigue in Casablanca is the theme, having to do with the handsome French flyer who is under a cloud ...

Barry Cryer reviews the timeless vaudeville family, the Marx Brothers. Sons of Jewish immigrants, the brother's distinctive slapstick personas were a hit on Broadway, with Groucho converting his stage ...