The Way We Were News

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)

Tony Award Winner Donna McKechnie , Tony Award Nominee Jodi Benson and Broadway veteran Doug LaBrecque will star with the Boston Pops in One Singular Sensation: A Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch conducted by Keith Lockhart .

"He'd be so happy. He so loved his college! " a passionate, upbeat Terre Blair Hamlisch said as she recalled her late husband to the full house at the Hamlisch Memorial Concert at Queens College's Kupferberg Center for the Arts on May 5. Originally scheduled for November 12, 2012, the event was postponed because of Hurricane Sandy.

Fanny Brice is a performer who dreams of becoming one of the world famous Ziegfeld girls.

Hello, gorgeous! Barbra Streisand, one of the few performers who genuinely can be considered a legend in her own time, spoke those words twice.

"Smile" is a rare gem of a musical that you rarely see performed on stage, but one local group is bucking that trend.

When Robert Redford was courting Julie Christie - professionally - to be in his new political drama, The Company You Keep , which he directed and stars in, he asked for advice from someone who'd been there: Sarah Polley.

" 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.

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

Robert Redford stars in and directed 'The Company You Keep.' He plays a former '70s radical who goes on the run.

The film industry should get more credit for the contribution it makes to the wider economy, according to the US actor and director Robert Redford.

'Well, in my limited experience, I'd have to say - that was the best girl-on-girl action of my life!' This was actress Amy Irving, referring to her 'love scene,' kissing Barbra Streisand in 'Yentl' - you know, the one where Barbra is forced to masquerade as a male Yeshiva student so as to further the education denied to women of her time.

NEW YORK, N.Y. "Ever since I can remember," Barbra Streisand told a crowd at Lincoln Center Monday night, "people have been calling me bossy and opinionated." Of course, the crowd - which included the singer's friends, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, was roaring at pretty much anything connected to her all evening, as the legend of song and screen ... (more)

This film image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Robert Redford, left, and Jackie Evancho in a scene from "The Company You Keep."Redford has co-starred with some of the biggest legends of the silver screen: Meryl Streep! Glenn Close! Jane Fonda! But it's acting newcomer Jackie Evancho who recently impressed the "Out of Africa" heart-throb.

Honoree Barbra Streisand attends the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 40th Annual Chaplin Award Gala on Monday, April 22, 2013, in New York.

Although Barbra Streisand's proverbial popularity has never been far off the Hollywood radar, the star is enjoying a renaissance, of sorts.