Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born Irving Lahrheim on August 13, 1895 in New York City, the future Bert Lahr had a challenging childhood with little money, ...

It took a lot of courage for Bert Lahr to transform into the "King of the Forest." The comic actor famously played the Cowardly Lion in 1939’s "The Wizard of Oz." The Technicolor classic, which ...

Bert Lahr’s most iconic role is that of the Cowardly Lion in “The Wizard of Oz" -- but his daughter said the comic actor didn’t witness the magic of his own work until much later in life. “My father ...

Audiences are invited to take a sentimental journey when the 1940s musical revue "In The Mood" returns to Bucks County Playhouse for a limited engagement, March 21-25.

The Girls Against the Boys (music by Richard Lewine; sketches and lyrics by Arnold B. Horwitt) seems a promising enough theme for a revue. And certainly in any such comic warfare, Nancy Walker should ...

You may know that L. Frank Baum, the author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and 13 other Oz books, was the son-in-law of Fayetteville resident Matilda Joslyn Gage and that he was married to Gage's ...

Honky Tonk Parade: The New Yorker Profiles (Overlook) John Lahr, theater critic for The New Yorker explains the autobiographical origins of his profiles. His father was the great clown Bert Lahr--but ...

An actor, comedian, and singer, his rubber-faced expression and noisy antics and trademark expression "gnong-gnong" made the Cowardly Lion.Wikipedia Paul Tazewell had a clear vision for the Wicked ...