Today’s subject Julie Benko is currently living her theatre life onstage at Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) playing the ...

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For the week starting Friday, June 16. Times are E.D.T., subject to change. Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, with ...

CHICO — You definitely don’t want to rain on this parade. This week I interviewed “Funny Girl” lead actress Leahana Mishelof, lead actor Owen Hansen and director Brian Holderman. The show, which is ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Rochester Broadway Theatre League’s season continues with the acclaimed musical comedy “Funny Girl”, which opens on Tuesday night at the West Herr Auditorium Theatre. Described ...

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 ...

Melissa Manchester, left, as Mrs. Brice and Hannah Shankman, right, as Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl.” The national tour runs though April 6 at Proctors. Hannah Shankman, left, as the titular “Funny Girl ...

The Capital Region is welcoming home one of its exceptionally talented actors this week when Proctors presents the national tour of "Funny Girl" through Sunday. Annabelle Duffy is a 2019 graduate of ...

The national tour of the musical “Funny Girl” opens at Proctors in Schenectady on Tuesday. It’s based on the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, one of the most important figures in 20th century ...

I’ve read one review of the touring show of “Funny Girl” stating Hannah Shankman didn’t have the “star power” needed to play Fanny Brice. I’m not sure who that critic saw, because Shankman had the ...

With a blend of audacious humor, soaring ambition and passionate romance, the character of Fanny Brice demands a multi-faceted performance by the leading lady of "Funny Girl." "She gets to be deeply ...

It's not quite "life imitates art," but it's a neighbor to that concept. Sort of like the actors who portray the "Funny Girl" and her husband. Hannah Shankman, who brings to life Fanny Brice in the ...