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 ...

In BOOP!, Betty’s dream of an ordinary day off from the super-celebrity in her black-and-white world leads to an extraordinary adventure of color, music, and love in New York City—one that reminds her ...

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 ...

2025 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Costume Design of a Mus Gregg Barnes 2025 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Direction of a Musical Jerry Mitchell 2025 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Lead Performance in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the calendar hits January 1, 2026, works first published in 1930 officially enter the U.S. public domain. An increasingly exciting tradition as the years move by, Public Domain Day brings a mix ...