It helps to read the original libretto or watch the 1936 film before going ... Full disclosure: It was the first Show Boat I ever saw live. Will it be my last? Centenary’s coming in two years.

Show Boat, Universal’s second talkerized version, is a smash filmusical. Basic tender romance [from Edna Ferber’s novel] between Magnolia (Irene Dunne) and Gaylord Ravenal (Allan Jones ...

This minimalist staging strips ‘Show Boat’ to its bones, scraping away a century of cultural rust and sentimentality to ...

As many more-faithful revivals have proved, what’s great about “Show Boat” is not really separable from what isn’t. Not even with the help of a sash or a slash.

Show Boat (1936) follows the story of a young woman who becomes the leading lady of a showboat troupe, despite her mother's ...

“Show Boat” was a testament to the courage of composer Jerome Kern, lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, and producer Florenz Ziegfeld. In an era of “willful nonsense,” they ...