"Boop!" makes a fresh star of the classic cartoon, while "Smash" banks on the rhythms of background television.

A ballooning budget, overrunning production and pre-release controversy... Sound familiar? How the 1937 classic defied ...

Poor Betty was a victim of the Hays Code, or the Motion Picture Production Code, which in 1934 banned profanity and curtailed ...

So far this season, Broadway has done a pretty good job of providing it with musicals like the hilarious Death Becomes ...

Boop!, tapping its way to Broadway with the encouragement and oversight of Fleischer Studios, tries its best to turn Betty ...

Performances in N.Y.C. From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop! Credit ...

Who’s Betty Boop? Beyond the iconography you might have seen on a lunchbox or keychain, what do you really know? You can recognize her curls, her red flapper dress, and her pursed lips ...

28), with a quizzical raise of the eyebrow. The cartoon character of Betty Boop may be iconic—and she may have a diehard fan-base—but she is not big in the now. Not only that, the show ...

Unlike Barbie, who has had a ubiquitous cultural presence for decades, Betty Boop is a Depression-era cartoon character of a jazz-age flapper, and in looks, attitude and style, she is of her time ...