Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The show closely followed the outline of 42nd Street, in which a naive kid from the sticks stumbles into a birthing Broadway show, ...

Just two years after Susan Sontag wrote her 1964 essay “Notes on Camp,” the musical “Dames at Sea” opened at the tiny Manhattan cabaret Caffé Cino. The so-bad-it’s-good aesthetic had been given a name ...

As soon as movies began to talk, they started to sing, and to dance. Finally, music and dance could be recorded together in sync for exhibition to mass audiences and preserved for future generations.