Hannah Khalil’s new play sprang from her surprise at seeing the great Egyptian actor had performed at the Festival theatre in the 1980s. She explains how it entwined with a story of her mixed-heritage ...

The musical is unexpectedly easy to follow despite heavy exposition, multiple character arcs and constant action...The songs are soft and often moving. And while it's admirable that the creators ...

At least one of the musicals that I see on Broadway each season leaves me shaking my head and muttering 'What were they thinking?' on the way out of the theater. 'Doctor Zhivago,' which purports to be ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA officials had rave reviews for Boris Pasternak's classic Russian novel "Doctor Zhivago" - not for its literary merit but as a propaganda weapon in the Cold War, the ...

Based on the famous 1958 Nobel Prize-winning novel by Russian author Boris Pasternak, Zhivago is set against the backdrop of the snowy country before and after the Russian Revolution. The work follows ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a 2012 BAFTA tribute to her, it was humorously noted that she had clothed literal armies of stars onscreen — “the Red Army, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phyllis Dalton in 1990 with her second Oscar, for Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Henry V’: she had worked as a wardrobe assistant on Laurence ...

Omar Sharif, the Egyptian-born actor with the dark, soulful eyes who soared to international stardom in movie epics, "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago," died Friday. He was 83. Sharif died of a ...

Phyllis Dalton, the two-time Oscar-winning costume designer behind classics like “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Doctor Zhivago” and “The Princess Bride,” has died at the age of 99, according to The Telegraph.

The hills are alive with the sound of great films. "The Nazis wore grey, you wore blue." An iconic theme song helped catapult Lean’s film to box office greatness. These films are so good, they're like ...