Christopher Davis doesn’t ascribe to that old actor’s adage, “Never work with animals or children.” [...]

Three performances of unscripted funny

The brutally cold December air kept most of the revelers off the large front porch, but inside the funky, two-story house in Southside, Rebecca Jennings’ annual solstice party was going strong.

Rebecca Alice Jennings, a legendary figure in the Birmingham theatre community whose career spanned seven decades, died on Nov. 27 after a series of illnesses. She was 85 years old. A memorial service was held on Dec. 4 at Grace Episcopal Church in Woodlawn.

Holly Burrow, Director of the new Hill Arts Center adjacent to the Alabama Theatre, will never forget her first visit to the Lyric, the magnificent old vaudeville and movie palace at Third Avenue and 18th Street North downtown.

A touring production of the famed Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes is coming to the BJCC Arena Dec. 12-14, and an aspiring dancer from Tuscaloosa has snagged one of the key roles.

Theatrical impresario Jake Wells built the magnificent Lyric Theater at Third Avenue North and 18th Street in downtown Birmingham expressly for vaudeville in 1914, and there wasn’t another house like it in the city, perhaps in the Southeast.

Sloss Furnaces doesn’t seem like it would be a great place to stage a play, especially a Shakespeare play. The blast furnace-turned-museum is a monument to Birmingham’s roots in heavy industry; its grounds are much more likely to make a visitor think of boilers and blowing engines than curtains and soliloquies.

There\’92s the Broadway crowd, comprised of folks who actually go to New York at least [...]

Last summer I wrote a story about the CenterStage production of the 1998 sexually charged [...]

There was a time when the coolest of the cool wore tuxes, sang, danced, drank [...]