On this day, November 8 1927, the early pop-country titan of industry known for the "Tennessee Waltz" was born in Oklahoma.

Today in Music History for Nov. 8: ...

In 1950, the year The Jackie Robinson Story came out, we are in the middle of a transition from how Black people were ...

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo sang a mashup of 'Get Happy'/'Happy Days Are Here Again,' first done by Barbra Streisand and ...

To call “Tommy” a great film is to misunderstand it. It is a great eruption, a fevered prophecy of everything that came after ...

Now referred to, with some awe, as the Secaucus find, it was one of the most important discoveries in the history of American ...

The last time Abel Gance’s nearly six-hour 1927 silent film “Napoleon” screened in New York City, it was in a truncated version — only four hours. In 1981, Francis Ford Coppola rented out Radio City ...

Tucked away in Cohen Hall, behind a locked door and underneath protective white sheets, two blue metal machines have stood ...

What does Damn Yankees, a 1950s musical have to say to audiences in 2025? With its themes of selling your soul to the devil to get a win or power or beauty, quite a bit.

It is all so cleverly done that the subject never realizes that he is being transformed from a musical moron to a Lawrence Gilman when he enters the refrigerated edifices of Broadway to view the ...

By the way: While Mamma Mia is a massive success by every standard, it isn’t on this list, because it didn’t score at least ...

Recently, with his latest movie musical adaptation Kiss of the Spider Woman then about to open in theaters, I sat down with one of the great champions of the film musical, Bill Condon, to talk about ...