PittsburghLive.com – By William Loeffler – Tribune-Review
Imagine an artist who paints large-scale historic epics such as the coronation of Napoleon or the armies of Alexander the Great riding into Egypt. Now imagine he adds a few extras to the landscape: a badger on a motorbike, a Tyrannosaurus rex playing the piano, a group of monkeys with guns demanding bananas.
Such might be the art of Eddie Izzard, had he been born a Renaissance painter. The cross-dressing British wit, whose conversational, highly digressive style suggests a genetic splicing of Oscar Wilde and Robin Williams, performs Wednesday and May 22 at the Benedum Center, Downtown.