The Producers News

As familiar as I am with the subtle comedy stylings of Mel Brooks, the man who brought us "Blazing Saddles" and "Spaceballs," I'm still amazed at the sheer comic chutzpah of "The Producers." This show, in the hands of the Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre, is a nonstop circus of slapstick gags, double entendres, bosom jokes and vaudeville shtick.

'The Producers,' the famed Mel Brooks comedy, will get a big production opening Friday by Haywood Arts Regional Theater.

I watched the dress rehearsal of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" Thursday night. I can see why Digger's begging for tickets for this one.

Toward the end of the first act in "The Producers," now playing at The Muni , the title characters seek out the worst theater director in town.

Comedy legend Mel Brooks will receive the tribute treatment by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and some of his favorite stars are lining up to be there! ET's own Leonard Maltin will host the evening's events on Friday, July 24, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, featuring numerous film clips and stories from ...

Pictured: Ben Lipitz as Max Bialystock and Ben Dibble as his buddy and partner in crime Leo Bloom.

Media baron Robert F.X. Sillerman had a great run until he tried to break into real estate - with Elvis Presley as his partner.

John Cullum, Brandon Victor Dixon and Colman Domingo will star in an invitation-only reading of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys at The Vineyard Theatre.

The partnership of Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom gets off to a rough start in Peach State's production of Mel Brooks' 'The Producers,' opening this weekend.

When: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday Tickets: $20, $15, $12, $10. All seats reserved.

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Parker, 44, and Broderick, 47, who already have a six-year-old son, James Wilkie, said their daughters - named Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge - were born on Monday in Ohio.

Bialystock and Bloom, these names strike terror and hysteria in anyone familiar with the classic cult comdey Mel Brooksa classic cult comedy film.

Bryn Dowling and Tom Riis Farrell join the cast of the Tony-winning Kander and Ebb musical Chicago June 15 at the Ambassador Theatre.

Plays by Neil Simon, Itamar Moses, Judy Gold, David Ives and more will punctuate the 2009-10 season at Theater J, the Washington, DC, company devoted to Jewish voices, stories and audiences.

First it was a movie that won an Academy Award. Then it became a stage musical that won 12 Tony Awards, then it became a movie again.

On "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Larry David's alter ego has realized two fantasies: starring in a Mel Brooks production and acting in a Martin Scorsese film .

Comedic actor Gene Wilder caught his first big break playing a small roll in the off-Broadway production of Arnold Wesker's "Roots" and followed quickly with his Broadway debut as the comic valet in "The Complaisant.... Comedic actor Gene Wilder caught his first big break playing a small roll in the off-Broadway production of Arnold Wesker's ...

Brad Musgrove loves making debuts. Last year, he made his debut as choreographer for Theatre By The Sea's uproarious take on The Producers.

Tickets for the New Mel B rooks Music Al Young Frankenstein, opening its National Tour in Providence at the Providence Performing Arts Center September 29 through October 4, will go on sale Monday, June 8 at 10am at the PPAC Box Office Window, by phone at 421-ARTS, and online at www.ppacri.org . Be among the first to purchase tickets to see this ...