Barbra Streisand News

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.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem said Monday it was granting the singer the degree because of her concern for human rights and dedication to Israel and the Jewish people.

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 .

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.

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.

Barbra Streisand's latest film comes to home video, and her Oscar-winning first film gets a Blu-ray upgrade this week.

Best extra: A disappointing vintage featurette that's been a staple of every "Funny Girl" DVD for the past 12 years WHAT WERE the odds that Barbra Streisand's Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" the new kid on the studio back lot would end up in a tie for Best Actress during the 41st Academy Awards with legend Katharine Hepburn's Eleanor of Aquitaine in ... (more)

Did you know that Despicable Me will have has a spinoff, Minions , heading to theaters in 2014? So far, Jon Hamm has joined Sandra Bullock in the vocal cast.

" Mirella Freni and Pavarotti shared the same wet nurse," former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said last week at the Eighth Annual Opera News Awards at The Plaza, sharing a bit of opera trivia before giving the Metropolitan Opera Guild's distinguished achievement award to the supreme Modenese soprano.

THEY SEEM PERFECT together as mother and son, Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen . Still, this comedy written by Dan Fogelman and directed by Anne Fletcher never reaches the heights the stars, writer and director have attained before.

In any other year - meaning a non-Daniel Day-Lewis year - Bradley Cooper's touching performance in David O. Russell's comedy "Silver Linings Playbook" would have been a serious contender for a best actor Oscar.

The iconic singer wore a dramatically low-cut black dress and embellished the look with a beautiful, green pendant necklace.