R everend Jimmy Swaggart, the Pentecostal televangelist whose empire was rocked by sex scandals in the 1980s and ’90s, has died. He was 90. Swaggart’s family announced his death on Instagram Tuesday ...

A central figure of the 1980s televangelist scandals and an influential Southern gospel singer, Swaggart spent 70 years in the ministry.

The show boasts several experienced creatives such Katie Brayben as Tammy Faye, Messner Christian Borle as her husband Jim Bakker, and Michael Cerveris as the Reverend Jerry Falwell.

The show stars Katie Brayben as Tammy Faye Bakker, Christian Borle as Jim Bakker, and Michael Cerveris as Jerry Falwell, with Autumn Hurlbert as the Tammy Faye Bakker Alternate, Nick Bailey as Paul ...

“Tammy Faye,” a bland, tonal mishmash of a show opening on Broadway, seems afraid to lean into what made the televangelist so distinctive.

Unfortunately for Sir Elton, the godawful musical about flamboyant 1980s televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is a lot more of a “Lestat” than an “Aida.” ...

Musicals based on the lives of Tammy Faye Bakker and Louis Armstrong reveal the difficulty of capturing a famous legacy onstage.

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 ...

On the surface, Tammy Faye Bakker would seem to be a natural figure to bring into the world of musical theater where strong-willed, larger-than-life women are gloriously worshipped.

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 ...

Tammy Faye Bakker is dead, too, a truth made clear in the first scene of an internally conflicted new musical that carries her name, even though the felonious hubby who betrayed her with Jessica ...

The musical follows the rise and fall of televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker and the impact of religion on U.S. politics.