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Sharon Ammen, associate professor of theater at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, is featured in a new documentary, “Three Vaudeville Women.” At the dawn of the 20th century, vaudeville was king. May ...

The University of Arizona School of Theater, Film & Television’s costume vault is an underground maze of corsets, vests, fluffy skirts, ball gowns and trench coats. Cubbies are labeled as specifically ...

Fighting and boxing are time-honored activities in the world of sports -- men's sports. For most of recorded history, women have been unwelcome and unwanted in what is traditionally considered a ...

Anyway, she's a fascinating Elizabethan cypher and you can easily see why Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's account of her life and times was such a hit when it opened at Shakespeare's Globe last August. Now ...

Pt. 1. The singers -- Maggie Cline -- Lottie Gilson -- Eva Tanguay -- Anna Held -- Stella Mayhew -- Bonnie Thornton -- Vesta Victoria -- Ada Reeve -- Emma Carus ...

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“This is Julian Eltinge,” says Jill, pointing to a photo of a stout, coquettish woman in a large Edwardian hat. “Eltinge was very big in vaudeville. ‘Women went into ecstasy over him. Men went into ...

Since Oldtime Songwriter Hughie Cannon wrote the lyrics in 1902, singers have been pleading in every form of jazz from ragtime to bop: “Won’t you come home, Bill Bailey, won’t you come home? Bill ...