Audra McDonald is the first Black actress to play Madame Rose on Broadway, and she and director George C. Wolfe deliver what ...

Any musical-lover knows that the question of a Gypsy revival is not whether the show will be an enjoyable night on the town.

But in the musical "Gypsy," she gets top billing. Rosalind Russell played her in the 1962 movie; Bette Midler in the 1993 TV version; and on stage, where it all started, Rose has been played by ...

“When I showed my own curiosity for things separate from her, like Barbie dolls, she’d be there to deflect: ‘Now, you don’t want those dolls when you have so many stuffed animals to play with.’” Gypsy ...

“Gypsy” is such a vehicle for the character of Madame (a.k.a. Mama) Rose that mountings of the musical are distinguished by the first names of the actors playing her. And what illustrious names they ...

Throughout her childhood, Gypsy is believed to be a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a form of abuse in which a caregiver fabricates or induces illnesses in their child to gain attention or ...

Gypsy Rose Lee was one of America's legendary entertainers. On this 100th anniversary of her birth, you may wonder just what makes her legacy endure. Rita Braver can explain: In 1943 she played ...

“And some of them were evil killers, and maybe it might be fun for him to play around with that darker side of life. Were we using each other?” Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and ...

“She’d chained me to the bed,” Gypsy wrote. “The older I got, the more physical and harsher her punishments became. She stopped letting me use my custom-made Jazzy HD power wheelchair ...