"Hairspray" has become the ultimate crowd-pleaser. The 1988 cult-classic film about hair hoppers and segregation in '60s Baltimore has spawned a Broadway musical, a big-budget movie musical and a live ...

If Hairspray were a person throwing its 30th birthday this week, what peers would be on the guest list? Probably adjacent comedies from its writer/director John Waters, like Polyester and Cry-Baby, ...

“You can’t stop the beat,” goes the finale of the musical comedy “Hairspray” in a rousing chorus of happy defiance. That rallying cry still rings out nightly from a Broadway stage — five years into a ...

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"Hairspray," Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy is back on tour with an Erie engagement Jan. 10 and 11 at the Warner Theatre, 811 State St. The play features 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in ...

Ricki Lake, who portrayed the iconic character in the original version of Hairspray in 1988, donned the black-and-white patterned dress and classic big hair she wore in the film for The View's musical ...

Few musicals can claim the sheer wit, jubilance, and joy present in the national tour of Hairspray. Modeled after the hit 1988 film by John Waters, the play takes place in segregated Baltimore in 1962 ...

“Hairspray” deals with plenty of heavy (literally, in some cases) social issues, but after 20 years the multi award-winning musical adaptation of John Waters’ 1988 film keeps a smile on your face that ...

There were a few noticeable differences from the film starring Zac Efron and John Travolta. By Taylor Weatherby, Billboard HairsprayLive2_publicity - H 2016 Hairspray Live! was quite the exciting TV ...

Tony Award-winning writer Mark O'Donnell, behind such quirky and clever Broadway shows as "Hairspray and "Cry-Baby," has died. He was 58. O'Donnell's agent at the Paradigm agency, Jack Tantleff, says ...