'I yearn for a return to what seemed to be a happier, friendlier, calmer, more ironic culture': John Cleese, photographed in London last week - Rii Schroer for The Telegraph When I was growing up in ...

John Cleese has admitted he can no longer play Basil Fawlty on stage at 84-years-old, claiming: “It would kill me.” The comedian is bringing his beloved comedy Fawlty Towers to the West End stage for ...

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - John Cleese says farce is best seen in the theatre as he brings a new stage version of his classic 1970s comedy show "Fawlty Towers" to London's West End. "Fawlty Towers The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Cleese, who co-wrote the original TV series with Connie Booth and starred as the ...

John Cleese has introduced the new Basil Fawlty. Stephen Hall will be taking on the iconic role for a live stage show of Fawlty Towers, which will have its world premiere in Australia in August. "One ...

Actor John Cleese - who played the sarcastic, ill-tempered hotel owner in the Fawlty Towers sitcom - has said nobody noticed the "terrible, terrible joke" he wrote in reference to Wales in one of the ...

I just found myself on Shaftesbury Avenue at the Apollo Theatre, in London's West End to get up close and personal with John Cleese. As in, I am in the second-to-front row, the stage is before me, and ...

John Cleese has seemingly announced he is leaving X/Twitter, naming Elon Musk in his farewell message. On Monday (9 September), the Fawlty Towers star, who recently said he is “surprisingly poor” ...