Stephen Mark Lukas has fulfilled his destiny. The musical theater actor plays ne’er-do-well gambler Nicky Arnstein in the national touring company of “Funny Girl” that opens at the Fox Theatre on July ...

Stephen Mark Lukas as Nicky Arnstein in Funny Girl at Broadway at the Hobby. Credit: Photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade There have been two elephants in the room when it comes to putting Funny ...

To any hit-hoping cinema, running into an injunction is as painful and prohibitive as tripping over a bat on the way to first. Fortnight ago Jules W. Arndt Stein (Nicky Arnstein), the husband who ...

First, there was Beanie, and we all know how that went. Then stand-by and relative unknown Julie Benko stepped into the role of Fanny Brice in the highly-anticipated revival of Funny Girl, and in true ...

In the smaller house, Funny Girl, the 1967 musical based on the life of Broadway and film star Fanny Brice and her relationship with the feckless Nicky Arnstein, is first up, with Samantha Spiro ...