Strong winds this week aren’t going to keep our weekend down as stars invade Austin. One of the biggest music, TV, film, and comedy events kicks off at SXSW, and if you are a theater lover, the ...

“Lovers are very special people, they're the luckiest people in the world ….” Hannah Shankman and Stephen Mark Lukas share a ...

The Glee star's trek follows her sold-out debut at Carnegie Hall in October and playing Fanny Brice in the recent Broadway ...

Barbra Streisand arrives on the screen, in “Funny Girl,” when the movies are in desperate need of her. The timing is perfect. There’s hardly a star in American movies today, and if we’ve ...

Tony Award winner Michael Mayer directs this brand-new FUNNY GIRL, featuring the classic score by Tony, Grammy and Academy Award winner Jule Styne and lyrics by Tony Award nominee and Grammy Award ...

(JTA) — The announcement this week that Katerina McCrimmon would star as Fanny Brice in the national tour of “Funny Girl,” the Broadway musical about a trailblazing Jewish comedian ...

Fifty years or more ago, even a hit like "Funny Girl" would need a marquee star on the road. Hannah Shankman proves that you don't need celebrity.

In early-20th-century New York, Fanny Brice knows that she is a talented comedienne and singer. She also knows that she is not the beauty typical of the stage performers of the day, with her ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Sydney Chaplin was nominated but did not win. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Danny Meehan was nominated ...

SYNOPSIS: Jule Styne, Bob Merrill and Isobel Lennart musicalize the life of Fanny Brice, who rose from the ranks of Brooklyn vaudeville to headline the Ziegfeld Follies, but found unhappiness in ...

Funny Girl is a 1968 American biographical musical comedy-drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the eponymous stage musical.