Although John Wayne rejected the lead role in the greatest Western comedy movie ever, this decision ironically saved the ...

Mel Brooks has truly witnessed Hollywood transform during his career, which he started in the late 1940s as a writer. By the 1960s, however, he had made his way to cinema, making his directorial debut ...

That was usually the case with Mel Brooks, until he met one actor who ended up costing him a fortune. Already an experienced comic before he made his feature-length directorial debut on The Producers ...

Mel Brooks' fabled comedy career began more than 70 years ago, in 1950, when he joined Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows as a writer. But it was in the 1960s and later the '70s that he rose to ...

The Academy Theatre’s “The Producers,” continuing Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays now through May 4, is a comedy from minute ...

Learn all about the creators, the story and the cast of The Producers and book The Producers London tickets now ...

The new 'Spaceballs' will be filled with 'Star Wars' deep-cuts. "When we were pitching him the original conceit for what we wanted to do with the film, at the beginning he [Mel Brooks] goes, 'I'm ...

Atlanta’s fastest-growing performing arts organization, City Springs Theatre Company (CSTC), has announced its latest season ...