The sea-son’s newest musical, Beaches, opened on April 22, with the cast and VIPs gathering to shell-ebrate. Directed by ...

The musical version of the beloved 1988 Bette Middler film is earning some of the season's most negative notices.

Whatever charms the 1988 movie had – and they were slight if soggy – have been washed away like so much sand erosion, leaving ...

The musical remains a cliche-filled melodrama reminiscent of film vehicles for Joan Crawford or Barbara Stanwyck. There’s ...

With the exception of its Cee Cee, alas, almost everything about Beaches is C-minus at best. The musical, which covers ...

“Beaches” is best remembered today as the kitschy classic that inspired Paul Rudnick to lampoon it in his screenplay “In & Out.” In a segment that’s a film within that 1997 comedy, a gay soldier is ...

The stage version of the story, however, takes more cues from the novel than the Bette Midler movie adaptation.

A new musical version of the 1980s tear-jerker comes to Broadway, but the production is too muddled to make an emotional ...

The death of "Otto Titsling" is the canary in the coal mine.

A standout turn from Jessica Vosk, taking on the Bette Midler role, isn’t enough to turn a much-loved movie into a legitimate stage show ...

Jessica Vosk reflects on her father’s sudden death while workshopping Broadway’s Beaches in an exclusive interview with ...