Funny Girl, now running at Irving’s Lyric Stage, is Broadway’s great musical comedy Cinderella story. Up from the ash heap of cheap vaudeville arises a gawky nobody, comedian Fanny Brice. She sings ...

8:53 p.m. April 9, 2024: An earlier version of this review misstated lyrics for “People.” The line is “people who need people are the luckiest people in the world,” not “people who need people are the ...

Fania Borch was one of early 20th century vaudeville’s greatest stars. Fania?? Oh, Fanny Brice, as she was known on the Ziegfeld Follies circuit, and is the nominal subject of FUNNY GIRL, now on stage ...

The show centers on Fanny, a young girl driven by her passion for performing on stage. She is relentless as she works her way up from humble beginning on the Lower East Side to the glamor of the ...

What does “Funny Girl” feel like in the 21st century? Even when the show premiered in the 1960s, people associated it more with its star, Barbra Streisand, than Fanny Brice, the real-life stage and ...

“Funny Girl” continues through Sunday at the First Interstate Center for the Arts. Tickets are $39.50-$94.50 through broadwayspokane.com. “You ever feel like your past is watching you?” At the top of ...

This week marks 133 years since Fanny Brice, the iconic performer, was born. As part of the celebration of her life and career, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts is preparing to welcome her ...

There’s a new Fanny Brice in town, and the question on everyone’s mind is can she live up to the role immortalized by Barbra Streisand? The best thing about Katerina McCrimmon’s dazzling performance ...