The movie and "Mary Poppins" soon thereafter "set up an image of Julie Andrews," Elkins said. "Who is this woman who comes into these family houses and heals them? Why is this woman always the ...

"La Ronde" author Arthur Schnitzler's works aren't always easily transferred into other media, but the marital team of translator-adapter-star Francesca Faridany and director Stephen Wadsworth have ...

The year was 1957. The song was “Fraulein,” and it brought country music immortality to its writer: Fort Worth’s Lawton Williams. Lawton Edgar Williams was born in Tennessee in 1922, son of a ...

Before the curtain rises, the antic master of ceremonies, Michael Preston (director of the production with Barbara Karger), takes center stage to instruct the audience in singing “Do-Re-Mi” and ...

The hills are alive! Literally. In “Fraulein Maria,” the Alps are represented by a sinuous, moving wall of people and fabric, with a few miniature sparkly evergreens thrown in for good measure. Just ...

This week in 1957, Sugar Ray Robinson regained his middleweight title for the fourth time, defeating Gene Fulmer; Alan Freed hosted “Rock n’ Roll Show,” a first primetime network special on rock music ...

Steaming in through San Francisco’s Golden Gate, last week, came the President McKinley, bearing a petite, blue-eyed German Fraulein of twenty-two. Resting an elbow on the ship’s rail and cuddling her ...

In adapting a novel to the stage, faithfulness can be a double-edged sword, and "Fraulein Else" at the La Jolla Playhouse demonstrates both blades. It would be hard to imagine an adaptation more ...