"Hairspray" has become the ultimate crowd-pleaser. The 1988 cult-classic film about hair hoppers and segregation in '60s Baltimore has spawned a Broadway musical, a big-budget movie musical and a live ...

In honor of the December 7 NBC broadcast of Hairspray Live!, Playbill tests your knowledge of the 1988 movie, the 2002 Broadway smash musical, and the 2007 film. Hairspray Live!’s Motormouth Maybelle ...

"Hairspray," Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy is back on tour with an Erie engagement Jan. 10 and 11 at the Warner Theatre, 811 State St. The play features 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in ...

Few musicals can claim the sheer wit, jubilance, and joy present in the national tour of Hairspray. Modeled after the hit 1988 film by John Waters, the play takes place in segregated Baltimore in 1962 ...

He was the teenage prince of disco in "Saturday Night Fever," the dreamy leader of a high school gang in "Grease" and a mob hit man in "Pulp Fiction." Now John Travolta will be playing a mom. The ...

There were a few noticeable differences from the film starring Zac Efron and John Travolta. By Taylor Weatherby, Billboard HairsprayLive2_publicity - H 2016 Hairspray Live! was quite the exciting TV ...

Queen Latifah and John Travolta have been cast to star in New Line Cinema’s upcoming remake of the 1988 film, Hairspray The musical, which takes place in 1962, is set to begin production in Baltimore ...

Ricki Lake, who portrayed the iconic character in the original version of Hairspray in 1988, donned the black-and-white patterned dress and classic big hair she wore in the film for The View's musical ...