There’s a new Fanny Brice in town, and the question on everyone’s mind is can she live up to the role immortalized by Barbra Streisand? The best thing about Katerina McCrimmon’s dazzling ...

This week marks 133 years since Fanny Brice, the iconic performer, was born. As part of the celebration of her life and career, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts is preparing to welcome ...

Here's a complete breakdown of the drama surrounding Beanie Feldstein and Lea Michele's roles as Fanny Brice on Broadway Broadway's Funny Girl has had some major shakeups since it first premiered ...

Even when the show premiered in the 1960s, people associated it more with its star, Barbra Streisand, than Fanny Brice, the real-life stage and radio superstar who it is actually about.

Forget guys in ruffled shirts, we've got something even more exciting — our first glimpse at Lea Michele as Funny Girl's new Fanny Brice. We here at EW are the "luckiest people in the world" to ...

"Funny Girl" is a star vehicle of the highest order. Barbra Streisand earned a Tony nomination and an Oscar win as Fanny Brice, the comedian and radio star whose life the show was loosely based on.

Lea Michele's return to Broadway is here; she officially took over the role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl beginning September 6. Michele took over the role of Fanny Brice from Beanie Feldstein (who ...

Michele, who was long-rumored to be taking over for Feldstein, will assume the role of Fanny Brice on Sept. 6. In the interim, the show’s understudy Julie Benko will perform the title role from ...

It became Fanny Brice’s passkey to fame. Brice grew up in far more comfortable surroundings than Berlin had, moving from her native Newark to Coney Island to Harlem, and from a young age ...

I was about to take the stage as Fanny Brice for the first time, and I had the shpilkes. A few family members and friends were there to cheer me on for the big debut, but the theater’s 1,275 ...