It’s only November, and Broadway has posted its first closing notice. “Tammy Faye,” the new $25 million Elton John musical about Tammy Faye Bakker, will close on Dec. 8, at which point it will have ...

But after that teasing introduction, Tammy Faye’s signature Kabuki facade barely figures in the disjointed, strangely bland musical that opened on Thursday at the newly renovated Palace Theater. It is ...

If you remember Tammy Faye Bakker at all from the peak of her ’80s televangelical fame, you’ll most likely remember the scandals, the mascara, the tarantula-leg eyelashes, the big, big hair, the ...

Two hours and 35 minutes, with one intermission. At the Palace Theatre, 160 W 47th Street. The Bitch is Back at the Palace Theatre, the storied house that holds decades of memories for Elton John — ...

It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make “Tammy Faye” divinely suited for musical theater. It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy hoot, a ...

Cable TV in the early 1980s had no more hypnotic oddity than “The PTL Club,” otherwise known as the Jim and Tammy Show, wherein an oily host and his mascara-loving spouse peddled their prosperity ...

I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t clap for Jerry Falwell. Though I’d argue that Tammy Faye — the splashy new musical about the life of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, imported from the U.K. and engineered ...

You wake up Sunday morning, and instead of turning on a favorite news program, you punch in the wrong numbers to get one of those dreadful Evangelist megachurch shows. Even worse, when you try to ...

One of the most polarizing tabloid figures of the late 20th century, Tammy Faye Bakker was an overly made-up, squeaky-voiced televangelist, who — along with her husband, pastor Jim Bakker — reached ...