From left: Sean Bell, Leo Roberts, Major Attaway, Blake Segal, Chris Collins-Pisano and Ellis C. Dawson III in "Spamalot" at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre (Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) “’Tis but a flesh wound!” —Th e Black Knight So funny, so good, so many laughs. If you know Monty Python, you’ll know the British comedy troupe’s 1975 movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” and in “Spamalot,” you get to see it on stage as a musical that garnered several Tony nominations in...

From left: Gildart Jackson, Will Block and Adam Poole in "The Shark is Broken" at Laguna Playhouse (Photo by Jason Niedle) If you are even remotely a fan of the 1975 blockbuster movie “Jaws,” you will thoroughly enjoy the play “The Shark is Broken” at Laguna Playhouse, written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon about the off-screen dialogue among the movie’s three main actors — Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw. Ian Shaw based the play on stories his father Robert shared with him about...

Brian Henson in "Puppet Up! – Uncensored" (Photo by Omar Gaieck) As the old saying goes, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.  In “Puppet Up! – Uncensored” — returning to Los Angeles at the Montalbán Theatre through March 1 — Brian Henson and troupe have put together an awesome assembly of puppets and made them funny, relevant and ADULT!  The troupe offers a great evening of taking random scenarios — and I mean RANDOM! — thrown out from the audience, fielded by improv artist Patrick...