When opportunity knocks in theater, you don’t say “no.” Bil Morrilll hadn’t planned to make his directorial debut with the musical comedy The Producers, which opens Friday, Oct 6, for a four-week run ...

Alan Johnson, a choreographer renowned for his campy movie collaborations with Mel Brooks on the “Springtime for Hitler” goose-steppers-and-showgirls extravaganza in “The Producers” and the “Puttin’ ...

Mike Isaacson booked "The Producers the new Mel Brooks Musical" for its current three-week run at the Fox Theatre and is a producer himself. He won a Tony Award this year for the new production of ...

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As the two Jewish men on stage slip on their Nazi armbands, preparing to take the Siegfried Oath, the portly man sitting next to me seems unsure if he should laugh. Like the rest of the audience at ...

It isn’t possible to review The Producers as if one hadn’t heard the shrieks of joy emanating from New York at the time of its 2001 Broadway opening. Critics raved about how daring and funny the show ...

Last week the Southern Poverty Law Center published its quarterly magazine Intelligence Report. This issue, titled "The Year in Hate," focuses on how "Nativist rage fuels rise in hate groups," a ...

This spring, the exploration of Third Reich imagery reaches critical mass. Triumph of the Will, the infamous 1934 film made by Hitler’s favorite propagandist, Leni Riefenstahl, ends its month-long run ...

Despite the tangible presence of reminders of the Third Reich all over Berlin — from the bullet-scarred buildings near the Reichstag to the converted Wehrmacht communications headquarters in which my ...

Western cheerleaders for the war in Ukraine have sought to deny the complicated relationship between Ukrainian nationalism and neo-Nazi groups, calling any discussion of a Nazi past or present in ...