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Mel Brooks regularly gets letters from high school students. They're not asking questions about the 83-year-old director's classic comedy movies such as "Blazing Saddles," "The Producers" and "Young Frankenstein." What's caught their attention is a comedy routine Brooks and Carl Reiner have performed for 50 years: "The 2000 Year Old Man." The young ...

For Nathan Lane, the fall of 2003 in Chicago was the happiest of times. The out-of-town tryout of Mel Brooks' "The Producers," which starred Lane and Matthew Broderick as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, was greeted by cheering audiences right from the first public performance.

T alk about reanimating a seemingly dead thing. In "Young Frankenstein," Mel Brooks and his crackerjack collaborator, director-choreographer Susan Stroman, have reached back to the days when true musical comedy -- complete with catchy tunes, impossibly leggy chorus girls, giggle-inducing one-liners and non sequiturs, nutty characters, eye-popping ...

When writer Roald Dahl was attending boarding school in England, the Cadbury Chocolate Company would sometimes send new chocolates over to be tested by students.

Even I, a jaded critic, thought, "Wow." I'll begin with a disclaimer: I have no idea if the revival of Arthur Miller's drama "A View From the Bridge," opening on Broadway in January, will be good or bad.

A first trip into the world of solo-dom can present certain hazards for a singer in a successful rock and roll band - expectations run high and questions run deep.

Trying to ride the wave of the previous smash Broadway hit, The Producers , another Mel Brooks' classic movie has been turned into a live musical -- this time it's Young Frankenstein , which has landed in Chicago.

The Weyenberg Library is pleased to present a musical film series, featuring some of Broadway's biggest hits on the big screen.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 7:35 am US/Central Reporting Vince Gerasole Mel Brooks had a big hit with the stage adaptation of "The Producers," which debuted right here in Chicago.

Matthew Broderick says he's puzzled by the bashing he's received for his actions during the first New York preview of "The Starry Messenger," a new play by good friend Kenneth Lonergan.

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According to The Producers the way to make serious money from a theatrical production is by staging an almightly flop.

Like his old pal Ferris Bueller, Matthew Broderick may need a day off. The former teen star, 47, is getting slammed for his performance in Broadway's "The Starry Messenger." Meanies are saying his recent stage appearances have been pretty tepid due to a lack of prep.

'I wanna be a Producer...' That's what everyone will be singing after experiencing the EPAC Repertory Company's production of Mel Brooks' 12-time Tony Award winning hit The Producers.

Mel Brooks' fixation on "Frankenstein" began when he was still in kneepants. "I must have been just five or six when I first saw the movie [James Whale's 1931 classic, "Frankenstein"], and it left an indelible impression on me," Brooks recalled during a recent chat.

The swastika is raised in the Cultural Quarter, but only in the name of comedy as a cult classic comes to the local stage, writes Alan Cookman NAZI stormtroopers will tap dance across the stage of The Regent Theatre next week in the show that brought Nuremberg to Broadway.

Dispatch Theater Critic Michael Grossberg writes about theater, comedy, what's onstage in Columbus, central Ohio, on Broadway and across the country.

So you get a collection of Mel Brooks movies and missing from it is "The Producers." But never fear: You still are going to get some classics, including the underrated and rarely available "The Twelve Chairs." Unlike "History of the World: Part I" or "High Anxiety," which are hilarious if you are a Brooks fan but may not be to everybody's taste, ...

Shuler Hensley plays the monster and Roger Bart plays young Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in the musical version of "Young Frankenstein," which comes Tuesday to Chicago.

If you have nothing else to do and self-mutilation is not your thing, why not check out Motherhood this weekend? Forgive my snark.