They were, the showman in 42nd Street proclaimed, “the most glorious words in the English language: musical comedy!” But for a couple of decades, the people who made Broadway-style musicals forgot ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. In the last few weeks, the new Broadway musical Taboo closed, costing its backers millions of dollars. It was also announced that the Broadway revival of Gypsy, ...

Old Hollywood movies, or those from the "Golden Age" of film, are known for their incredible performances, ornate productions, and the genres they launched—from rom-coms to noirs to movie musicals.

Many of us survived the Covid days by rediscovering old MGM musicals, humming tunes from Singing In the Rain or doing a Fred Astaire tap from Top Hat. So if they represented islands of good cheer, let ...