Barbra Streisand News

When you think of Ann Darrow being swept up by King Kong, you imagine a shrieking, buxom blonde writhing in the giant ape's paw.

Fleetwood Mac song-stress Stevie Nicks is tantalizing fans with a bold idea: a one-woman show.

Theatre Communications Group has announced the availability of two new plays by John Logan : I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers and Peter and Alice, both published by Oberon Books .

The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel will welcome back Tony Award-Winner Lea Salonga to the Caf Carlyle for her highly anticipated three-week engagement.

Jodi Arias returns to court for the continuation of her trial after being convicted of murder in her lover's killing as jurors consider a life sentence or execution.

Streisand, the iconic Jewish-American singer and actress, will be presented with the degree at a ceremony on June 17 during the Hebrew University International Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem.

The well overdue wakeup call, which struck me like a bolt last month, came courtesy of a surprising source - the smart and funny one-man show "Buyer & Cellar." The play by Jonathan Tolins, which wrapped its run at the Rattlestick and reopens at the Barrow Street Theatre June 18, is inspired by Barbra Streisand's meticulously curated shoppes - built ... (more)

Playing down the divadom, Barbra Streisand masticates a mammoth steak and wears mom jeans for her first leading-actress role since 1996's "The Mirror Has Two Faces." Babs nags, dotes and hilariously attempts hipness as Joyce Brewster , a brash Jewish mom who's the tag-along on her grown son's cross-country trip to hawk his new invention .

"He'd be so happy. He so loved his college! " a passionate, upbeat Terre Blair Hamlisch said as she recalled her late husband to the full house at the Hamlisch Memorial Concert at Queens College's Kupferberg Center for the Arts on May 5. Originally scheduled for November 12, 2012, the event was postponed because of Hurricane Sandy.

May 12 is the day to forgo watching the latest awesome! mind-blowing! not at all formulaic! CGI-action-adventure franchise movie in favor of something with a lady protagonist, or a least a lady-powered subplot.

Spending two weeks trapped in a small car with your mother might sound like the plot to a horror movie, but it actually happened to writer Dan Fogelman, who decided to turn it into a comedy instead.

Mark Winkler, with "The Laura Nyro Project," pays homage to a stellar songwriter of the late 60s, and does so quite nicely.

It's down to the final three on American Idol and the ladies aren't holding anything back.

This Oct. 11, 2012 file photo shows singer Barbra Streisand performing at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Fanny Brice is a performer who dreams of becoming one of the world famous Ziegfeld girls.

Rogen and Streisand hit the road, and the comedic results are far more entertaining than they have any right to be... Barbra Streisand has made it very clear in the past decade or so that she doesn't need to work in Hollywood unless she wants to, and this elite paradigm insists that there's something to The Guilt Trip , believe it or not.

In "The Guilt Trip," Barbra Streisand plays the widowed mother of an organic chemist/inventor who has a new product he's trying to pitch to manufacturers/distributors. Sensitive to his mother's loneliness, he invites her to join him on a road trip while he secretly schemes to reunite her with a lost love, a man she adored before she met and married ... (more)

Wherever you go, as a tourist, in Savannah, Ga., and Charleston or Beaufort, S.C., it seems you are walking on historic if not celebrity ground.. You can't pass a building or house, usually no more than two stories, without noting its age or importance.

Hello, gorgeous! Barbra Streisand, one of the few performers who genuinely can be considered a legend in her own time, spoke those words twice.

Emily Bronte's masterpiece Wuthering Heights has been filmed umpteen times. But like a classic play, it's well worth revisiting again and again.