MOSCOW — Screen adaptations of classic literary works frequently air in their home country first. Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel “Dr. Zhivago,” banned under Soviet rule until 1988, is a notable ...

LA JOLLA — History marches double-time in the new “Zhivago” -- as well it should. This new musical epic takes on the daunting task of dramatizing a mammoth 1955 novel by Boris Pasternak, whose ...

Based on the 1958 novel by Russian author Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago began previews March 27. The musical premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in May 2006 and was later revised for an Australian ...

Making a musical of “Doctor Zhivago” (based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak, by way of the 1965 David Lean movie with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie) seems like a bold undertaking. But you have ...

At least one of the musicals that I see on Broadway each season leaves me shaking my head and muttering “What were they thinking?” on the way out of the theater. “Doctor Zhivago,” which purports to be ...

It may have lasted a mere six weeks on Broadway earlier this year but Doctor Zhivago is not a brand new production, having originally debuted in California in 2006. Then followed an Australian touring ...

Tam Mutu, the London stage actor who’s never before appeared on Broadway, will play the title role in “Doctor Zhivago,” the musical that opens in the spring at the Broadway Theater. Mutu, whose U.K.