Evita, originally a stage musical written by prolific stage writer Andrew Lloyd Webber, is based on the life story of Eva “Evita” Perón, former First Lady of Argentina. Evita was beloved by ...

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Michael Grandage’s revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Evita” at the Marquis Theater is stately, sincere and sober-sided. By Ben Brantley The wife of Juan Perón made an indelible mark on ...

**** Evita (Buena Vista, 135 minutes, PG, priced for rental): “Oh, what a circus! Oh, what a show!” exclaims Che, the Everyman narrator of Evita. Che is describing the 1952 funeral of Eva “Evita” ...

“Evita Peron, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, the workers’ darling, had been built up during Peron’s years of rule into something like a living Madonna.” –“The River Plate Republics,” 1965 ...

BUENOS AIRES — Almost 30 years after the death of Juan Peron, the pro-labor president who ran Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and again in the early 1970s, Argentine filmmakers are taking a fresh look at ...

The pop diva says she was "destined' to play Eva Peron. When you consider how it almost didn't happen, you wonder if she's got something there. Here's the whole strange saga. "I was destined to play ...

For sheer cinematic spectacle and visual and aural pyrotechnics, the movie version of “Evita” probably deserves a place of honor in the history of screen musicals. Yet, there’s a catch. For all its ...

Eva Perón tears the shoes off her feet and hurls them into the wings. She shouts; she stamps; she flies into the arms of half a dozen lovers. She sprints around the stage trailing white silk like the ...

Gael Garcia Bernal and Mia Maestro (“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2”) have joined the cast of Argentinian helmer-scribe Pablo Aguero’s “Evita” (working title), chronicling the odyssey of ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — One hundred people dressed up as Evita Perón and paraded in the streets of Argentina’s capital Monday, a day before the 100th anniversary of the birth of the charismatic ...