Cable TV in the early 1980s had no more hypnotic oddity than “The PTL Club,” otherwise known as “The Jim and Tammy Show,” ...

Tammy Faye,” a bland, tonal mishmash of a show opening on Broadway, seems afraid to lean into what made the televangelist so distinctive.

It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make "Tammy Faye" divinely suited for musical theater. It would take ...

Musicals based on the lives of Tammy Faye Bakker and Louis Armstrong reveal the difficulty of capturing a famous legacy ...

By all rights, Tammy Faye – she dropped the Bakker after divorcing her cheating, possibly gay husband and partner in the God ...

The televangelist defended gay men during the AIDS crisis. Now she’s getting perhaps the gayest tribute: a Broadway show led by Elton John.

Unfortunately for Sir Elton, the godawful musical about flamboyant 1980s televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is a lot more of a ...

"The reason that we are here is that what [Tammy Faye] did, they way she delivered a pure message of love over hate- it's a message that we very much need right now," explained Christian Borle last ...

Tammy Faye” has its fun moments, but while Elton John’s score certainly matches that era, it’s hard to find a song therein ...

With a soaring score from the legendary Elton John, the show casts Jerry Falwell Sr. as the villain, Jim Bakker as a ...

The central scene in the Broadway musical Tammy Faye (Palace Theatre, booking to March 30, 2025)—with music by Elton John and ...

Spinning an evangelist grifter into a camp icon and sorta-feminist heroine is a little hard to take right now.