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In addition to promoting events at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines, Krissi Diers gets to give input on what productions the downtown venue should host.

Two Broadway blockbusters and four lesser-known musicals have been scheduled for production by The Theatre Company for its 2008-09 season, themed "Mixing the Old With the New." The Producers , Mel Brooks' romp ...

Ray Arrucci and Geno Carr rehearse for the upcoming Merry-Go-Round Playhouse production of "The Producers" Wednesday afternoon.

Beth Leavel, who won her Tony Award for her work in the title role of The Drowsy Chaperone , joins the Broadway company of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein July 15, one week earlier than originally announced.

The Ogunquit Playhouse will stage the most Tony Award-winning musical of all time, Mel Brooks' "The Producers," July 16 through Aug.

Seventy years after Austrians enthusiastically voted to become part of Nazi Germany, Vienna theater audiences are flocking to see ``The Producers'' and ``Mein Kampf'' to get a chance to poke fun at Hitler.

When Topeka Civic Theatre & Academy artistic director Shannon J. Reilly started thinking about what it would take to stage Mel Brooks' "The Producers," which has as its core plot device a musical tribute to ...

The Ogunquit Playhouse is please to present the most Tony -Award-Winning musical of all time, Mel Brooks ', THE PRODUCERS, July 16th through August 9th.

Imagine Shakespeare had made "Blazing Saddles" and you might have a taste of what director Paul Mullins does at the Old Globe Theatre with his guiltlessly silly, thoroughly appealing "The Merry Wives of ...

Tony Award winner Beth Leavel will join the cast of Mel Brooks ' Young Frankenstein as Frau Blucher on Tuesday, July 15, one week earlier than previously announced.

Sutton Foster's yodeling will be silenced July 6, when she plays her final performance as Transylvanian lab assistant Inga in Broadway's Young Frankenstein at the Hilton Theatre.

Caption: Bob Weinstein and guest Opening Night of the new Mel Brooks musical 'Young Frankenstein' at the Hilton Theatre - Arrivals New York City, USA .... An explosive book about film bosses HARVEY and BOB ...

Back in April, the Corner Bistro Dinner Theatre was in big trouble. Rising costs and shrinking audiences put the Carbondale company in a perilous position.

In the Mel Brooks play, "The Producers," a planned swindle would only succeed if a joke of a Broadway play was a monumental flop.

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Is there anyone left on the planet who doesn't have at least a passing familiarity with Mel Brooks' diabolically hilarious and defiantly politically incorrect creation 'The Producers'? The story of how the ...

The Weinstein Co. is a producer of 'August: Osage County,' which took five Tonys, as well as a number of other productions.

Beth Leavel , Michele Ragusa and Kelly Sullivan become the new leading ladies of Mel Brooks ' award-winning Young Frankenstein this summer at the Hilton Theatre , joining original cast members Roger Bart , ...

George Lucas could be bound for Broadway. We hear Whoopi Goldberg has been talking with Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic about collaborating on "Bricktop - Queen of the Night." [ NYO ] From Kicklines to ...

Gary Cohen had his eye on "The Producers." And why not? After all, Cohen is a producer himself.