The Depression comes to life with Yip Harburg’s lyrics to “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” Then, Sophie Tucker’s licentious lament “Max From the Income Tax” reminds us that good times or bum times, there is always somebody in the wings forcing you to...

An ardent fan of Trudi Schoop, she danced the Dipsy Doodle and bemoaned the fact that her adagio ballet career ground to a halt at an early age because she grew so tall that she looked "like the Bride of Frankenstein en pointe." Along the way, she...

Elsewhere, she revives Yip Harburg's "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" As in previous shows, she re-creates a Sophie Tucker routine, "Max From the Income Tax," which ostensibly is about economic chaos but reveals more about her fascination with Tucker,...

To say that Ms. Ebersole has almost as many personalities inside her as appear in that illustration is not to suggest that her show, directed by Scott Wittman, is a gallery of musical caricatures. It is all her, and she doesn’t try to disappear into...

Theatre and the announcement of the Spelman Award winner. Following presentations there will be a special performance of the hit show, Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red Hot Mamas, in the Gompertz Theatre. The show is an intimate evening with dynamite...

They include Salmon P. Chase, sixth Chief Justice of the United States and whose image is on the U.S. $10,000 bill, in 1808; Horatio Alger , author of rags-to-riches stories, in 1832; Alfred Fuller , the original Fuller Brush Man, in 1885; singer...