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Brown Girls Daphne Palasi Andreades. Random House, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-24342-8 Andreades’s underwhelming debut follows a group of young women of color who grow up in the “dregs of Queens.” ...
If he was starting out today, Dexter’s Laboratory creator Genndy Tartakovsky would “make cartoon after cartoon until something hits.” That was Tartakovsky’s pearl of wisdom delivered to a ...
Niecy Nash-Betts said she wants Hollywood to remember she's a "Funny Girl" after an acclaimed string of dramatic roles.
“Funny Girl” first premiered on Broadway in 1964 and the movie version, with Barbra Streisand starring as Fanny Brice, followed in 1968.
Annabelle Duffy has appeared on stages throughout the Capital Region since she was in elementary school. Her return to the area with the national tour of Funny Girl, making a stop at Proctors, is p… ...
Cartoon Network will air original episodes of The Powerpuff Girls on Saturday mornings after the success of other classic shows reruns.
A recent study suggested that cartoons targeted at girls feature sweets like cupcakes and ice cream eight times more frequently than those aimed at boys.
The musical "Funny Girl" opens Tuesday at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans with Hannah Shankman as Fanny Brice and Stephen Mark Lukas as Nicky Arnstein.
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.
Beanie Feldstein confirmed her departure from "Funny Girl" on Instagram, writing that being in the show "has been a great joy and true honor." ...
The nostalgic rendition of the musical stars an excellent Hannah Shankman as Fanny Brice, a young woman who has dreams of stardom. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair reviews the Broadway in Boston show.
You’ll find it in “Funny Girl,” now at Citizens Opera House, starring Hannah Shankman as the brassy, unlucky-in-love but indomitable vaudeville-era comedian-singer Fanny Brice.