The devastating wildfires in California have caused comic actors Steve Martin and Martin Short to postpone several upcoming tour dates, including Friday’s scheduled performance at Ruth...
Standup comedian Jim Gaffigan is on the road again – in fact, he’s always on the road – and he’s got a show at Tampa’s Amalie...
The long-form interview is part of every career journalist’s portfolio. With regard to arts and entertainment journalism, the writer will in time compose short stories, long...
January’s entertainment calendar is jam-packed, although not with today’s top pop stars or A-list celebrities. Unless you count Cher among the latter. No, the original single-named...
There was a time – quite a few years, in fact – when Patton Oswalt was best known as the guy who voiced the gourmet-cooking rat...
The expressive (and explosively funny) Italian-American standup comic Sebastian Maniscalco is onstage Saturday at Amalie Arena. Having sold out Madison Square Garden several times this year,...
One of Great Britain’s most insightful and cerebral comedians, Eddie Izzard is also a performer unlike any other; her seemingly stream-of-consciousness observations vacillate between high-energy hilarity...
Standup comedian Jimmy Shubert has a mantra, and it’s held him in good stead: “I say this all the time: I want to make an excellent...
Jamey Johnson, the “outlaw” country music singer and songwriter whose songs have been recorded by George Strait, Willie Nelson, Trace Adkins and others, performs Friday at...
The titles of the Dirty John’s cabaret shows, which have taken place on a semi-regular schedule over the past five years, give a clue as to...
