After nearly 100 years of small screen success, it seems impossible that this timeless fixture of pop culture is only just making her way to the stage. And though we are intimately familiar with Betty ...

Betty Boop was “born” in 1930 on Myron “Grim” Natwick’s drawing table at the Fleischer brothers’ Manhattan animation studio. As the journalist Peter Benjaminson details in “The Life and Times of Betty ...

For almost a century, Betty Boop, created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer, has won hearts and inspired fans around the world with her trademark looks, voice, and style. Now, in BOOP! The Musical, ...

The new Broadway-bound “Boop! The Musical” imagines what might happen if the early 1930s animation film-short sensation, born at Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount, found herself in modern ...

Boop! The Betty Boop Musical will begin previews at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre on on March 11, 2025, with an opening night set for April 5. The previously announced engagement follows a ...

On Aug. 9, 1930 — 95 years ago Saturday — the cartoon character of Betty Boop made her debut with the release of the Fleischer Studios animated short “Dizzy Dishes.” Except this wasn’t quite the Betty ...

From Popeye to Shrek, several beloved cartoon characters were inspired by real people. This article uncovers the fascinating true stories of Frank Fiegel, Helen Kane, and Maurice Tillet, revealing how ...

No, you're not hallucinating. Dua Lipa, quarantined pop star extraordinaire, worked with animators to create a brand-new music video for her Future Nostalgia song "Hallucinate," which dropped on ...

The new musical comedy “Boop,” which opens this weekend on Broadway, is one of the year’s few family-friendly shows. There’s no cursing and nothing’s offensive — just like you’d expect from a song-and ...

With a new, exclusively curated exhibit, San Diego’s Comic-Con Museum is celebrating the more than 90-year legacy of Betty Boop, whose child-like voice and pin-curl hair won the hearts of adult ...