Few stage musicals are more intimately entwined with one particular performer than “Funny Girl.” Jule Styne and Bob Merrill’s bio of early-20th-century musical comedy star Fanny Brice could have ...

Hannah Shankman plays Fanny Brice in the musical "Funny Girl," now on stage at Kravis Center. March that band out — “Funny Girl” has finally arrived in West Palm Beach. One of the crown jewels of the ...

Fanny Brice was a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls. She stuck out. This was (part of the reason) she was so great. A century ago, Brice was the pioneering Jewish comic of Broadway and radio. “She ...

The musical was revived on Broadway in 2022 with a newly adapted book by Harvey Fierstein. The production at Shea’s Buffalo is a stop on the first national tour which began in September 2023 and is ...

During an interview in advance of the three-week engagement of the First National Tour of “Funny Girl” at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, the show’s tap coordinator, Ayodele Casel, talked up the ...

What does “Funny Girl” feel like in the 21st century? Even when the show premiered in the 1960s, people associated it more with its star, Barbra Streisand, than Fanny Brice, the real-life stage and ...

At the end of almost any show these days, theater audiences rise for an obligatory standing ovation as if the doorbell just rang and the last Halloween candy needs doling out. Rarely, an audience ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Broadway, radio and film entertainer and comedian Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was the stuff of legend — a star in producer Florenz Ziegfeld’s Follies who went on to become Broadway's ...

“Funny Girl” was well-positioned for a revival last year. The musical — loosely based on the life of early 20th century Broadway star Fanny Brice — was iconic for a time, a Tony Award-nominated smash ...

"Funny Girl," once a hit film and Broadway musical, is now touring the United States for the first time ever. Next week, Funny Girl's cast will arrive at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts for ...