CLEVELAND, Ohio – Near West Theatre is planning a production of “Hairspray.” The community-driven theatre in the heart of Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood has scheduled performances from Friday, ...

Zac Efron didn't know it, but he had to rely on the popularity of Amanda Bynes in order to land his major role in this 2007 movie.

The Lark Theater’s Late Night at the Lark series features late-night screenings of classic movies through Dec. 6. The series kicks off with “Fight Club” (1999), directed by David Fincher, who grew up ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a civil rights leader and political outsider, ran for president in two groundbreaking campaigns that changed American politics. A son of the segregated South who went from ...

Hairspray,” the musical version of John Waters’ 1988 cult comedy about segregation in the early 1960s, opened last week at the Scherr Forum Theatre in Thousand Oaks with a special surprise— the ...

These old items could net you new money. An investment expert is urging cash-strapped Americans to check their basements and junk drawers to see whether they own forgotten books, gadgets and games ...

The actress, who won a Tony Award for her role in the hit musical, said she would “sing the whole show in my head” during treatment Frank Micelotta/Getty Marissa Jaret Winokur says that she sang songs ...

Lionel Richie is speaking out for the first time about the scandal that ended his first marriage nearly four decades ago. In June 1988, Richie’s first wife, Brenda Harvey-Richie, was arrested after ...

The friend mailed vintage ‘Hairspray’ and ‘Cry-Baby’ shirts to the star after her collection was destroyed in the January fires Ricki Lake/Instagram Ricki Lake is grateful for her old friends. In ...

JANESVILLE — Built on inclusivity and rebellion, Pride Theatre Productions is set to stage “Hairspray,” its new musical, this weekend, and this time at UW-Whitewater at Rock County. After the premier ...

A turn-of-the-20th-century matchmaker. An overgrown Santa’s elf who ends up in New York. A Russian dairyman weathering changes in his country and his family. A Baltimore teen pining to be among the ...

WAKEFIELD, R.I. — The huffing of fluorocarbons – breathing deep into a brown paper bag filled with Freon or leaning into the aerosol stream from a can of Aqua Net hairspray – was the recreational drug ...