Sixteen years after the release of the original film, New Line Cinema is bringing a feature film adaptation of the Tony award-winning Broadway production "Hairspray" to life. Featuring new and ...

Attention, theater geeks: If you can find it in your heart to pause The Hamilton Mixtape for a minute, there’s another album we should probably discuss. Below are just a few of my personal ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Hairspray soundtrack spent nine consecutive ...

In the beginning (1988) was John Waters' low-budget, provocateurish cult movie Hairspray. This was partly defused, but also grandly gussied-up, by the Broadway musical version, opening in August 2002 ...