Race is impossible to separate from James Whale's 1936 adaptation of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein musical "Show Boat," about vaudevillians on the Mississippi River. There's a blackface production ...

With an unforgettable story and score, the 1927 musical tackled complex racial issues. Music critic Lloyd Schwartz says the 1936 film version of Show Boat is the best — and it's now out on DVD.

Show Boat started beguiling audiences back in 1927, when it was first brought to the Broadway stage after a Philadelphia tryout. Since then, in many legit versions and in two previous film treatments, ...

At a rehearsal for the New York Philharmonic’s production of “Show Boat,” Alice Hammerstein Mathias spoke to the cast about a controversy as old as the musical itself: The choices her father, and ...

A heads-up to our readers: This post quotes a racial slur. When actress Erin Quill saw a casting notice earlier this month for a Show Boat musical revival with a completely Asian-American cast, she ...

"Sesame Street" used to feature a game in song called "One of These Things Is Not Like the Others," and it's a game you may be tempted to play looking at the San Francisco Opera's summer season: "La ...

Allan Jones plays debonair leading man Gaylord Ravenal and Irene Dunne is the enchanting Magnolia in the 1936 film version of Show Boat, which has just been released on DVD. Broadway had never seen ...