Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Jim Bakker

Elton John turns the saga of televangelist Tammy Faye into song for Broadway

When Elton John was on tour in America during the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye

The Independent UK

Elton John's musical about Tammy Faye Bakker to land on Broadway next season

Elton John’s musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is coming to Broadway from London

The Independent UK

Our pick of playwright James Graham’s ten best works, as new National Theatre Gareth Southgate play announced

There are few playwrights doing it better than Graham

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Elton John debuts new musical all about Tammy Faye Bakker ... because of course he did

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Tammy Faye Bakker renaissance shows no signs of slowing down.

Tribune News Service

The week in theatre: Tammy Faye; Hamlet; Marvellous – review

Katie Brayben nails the title role in a musical otherwise lacking edge, Billy Howle makes a princely Hamlet and an all-new West End theatre is launched by an amazing life

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Faye: A New Musical review – Elton John’s hymn to biblical kitsch

Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons – so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shears lyrics are sometimes overwhelmed by glitz

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Faye at Almeida Theatre review: praise be, it’s a religious riot

This musical is a carnivalesque takedown of something rotten

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘Fame, greed, redemption – the story is biblical’: behind the scenes of Tammy Faye

With songs by Elton John and Jake Shears and a script by James Graham, this new musical about the televangelist has a lot of talent behind it. The creative team explain how they brought her dramatic life story to the stage

The Guardian - UK

Musical Tammy Faye tells gay icon’s life story with score by Elton John

Production opening in October portrays US evangelical star who challenged views on Aids and HIV

The Guardian - UK

Watergate at 50: the burglary that launched a thousand scandals

One of the more curious legacies of the Watergate scandal is so obvious that we barely notice it.

The Conversation

Review: The underappreciated James Gray returns to Cannes with a memoir of '80s New York

CANNES, France — The title of James Gray's "Armageddon Time," which premiered in competition Thursday night at the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival, is a wry reference to a comment made by Ronald Reagan during his first presidential campaign: "We may be the generation that sees Armageddon," he said in…

Los Angeles Times

Jessica Chastain wins best actress Oscar

The Academy Award for best actress has gone to Jessica Chastain for her portrayal of televangelist’s wife Tammy Faye Bakker in the movie The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

Crikey

Jessica Chastain wins best actress Oscar for The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Chastain’s performance as the televangelist’s wife who rebels against Christian conservatism takes the top acting prize

The Guardian - UK

The Eyes of Tammy Faye review: Jessica Chastain borders on the ridiculous in glitzy biopic

Oscar-primed drama is the latest attempt to rehabilitate the eccentric televangelist in the public eye

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

The Eyes of Tammy Faye review – Jessica Chastain is outrageously entertaining in Christian biopic

The actor is hilarious in a very enjoyable look at the rise and fall of the televangelist’s life with slippery husband Jim Bakker

ABC News

The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield play televangelist power couple in film that champions her perspective

The Eyes of Tammy Faye charts the rise and very public fall from grace of controversial power couple Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker — but its real focus is giving the latter her due.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.