"Papa, can you hear me?" Barbra Streisand crooned in her intensely sentimental 1983 movie "Yentl." “Oh, s---!” goes a bluesy lyric in a newly musicalized stage version of “Yentl” getting its area ...

“Deadpool 2” definitely knows its audience. That’s why it rattles off jokes about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC movie universe with abandon — it knows the folks who like superhero movies ...

Like its audacious heroine, the new stage version of “Yentl” gets itself into a bit of a pickle. To Isaac Bashevis Singer’s tale of a young, knowledge-craving Jewish woman who disguises herself as a ...

Before she issues her memoir this November, Barbra Streisand will be giving fans a couple of soundtracks for all that reading, in the form of two music releases due shortly beforehand on Oct. 27. One ...

Not complacent to wait on a matchmaker arranged husband and a life of sweeping floors, the independent Yentl chose a different path. The way she chooses is the only path she feels she can take yet is ...

Somehow it seems absolutely right that the woman who wrote and sang the MTV hit “I Kissed a Girl” and “Supermodel” is penning the slightly subversive, excellently wry and humorous music and lyrics for ...

If you’re not a musical nerd, Streisand fan or gay (à la Man in chair in “The Drowsy Chaperone”), you may be asking, “What is a Yentl?” While I cannot relate, I can answer your question, as I am all ...

Barbra Streisand and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis don’t have much in common. However, in many ways the themes explored in Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ hit summer song ‘Same Love’ are the same as the Academy ...

If Yentl had a formula, it would go something like this: two parts Twelfth Night plus one part Boys Don’t Cry, with a generous pinch of Fiddler on the Roof. Still with me? Good—because while the play, ...

Last weekend during my ever growing quarantine movie watchlist, I revisited a film I hadn’t seen or really thought about since I first watched it as a teen: Barbara Streisand’s Yentl (1983). This was ...