2.After working on adapting the book for two years, P.L. Travers came to Disney Studios and apparently "didn't like anything" that was written. In recordings and sketches from a 1961 meeting, Travers ...

If you had happened to be in the Disney studio parking lot in Burbank, Calif., on a Friday in 1960, you might have seen a couple of guys drive past each other with four fingers raised. The men were ...

Dick Van Dyke may be turning 100 on Dec. 13, but his “Mary Poppins” co-star says the legendary actor has always been a mischievous kid at heart.

For more than 60 years, audiences have been revelling in a spoonful of sugar, dancing penguins and Dick Van Dyke’s highly questionable Cockney accent in the joyful classic, Mary Poppins.

The new book, Making Mary Poppins: The Sherman Brothers, Walt Disney, and the Creation of a Classic Film, is the extraordinary true story behind the creation of one of the most beloved films of all ...

Sixty years ago, Mary Poppins flew down from the sky on her umbrella and changed movies forever. The classic movie (on WTW’s 100 best movies of all time list) featuring an iconic performance from ...

It's been 60 years since the Disney classic "Mary Poppins" first floated into our lives. For a while, making the film seemed like an impossibility for Walt Disney. He pursued the film rights from the ...

As Dick Van Dyke turns 100, Variety looks back at how 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was almost canceled and how 'Mary Poppins' was ...

During a show-pausing turn in “Mary Poppins Returns,” Lin-Manuel Miranda takes center stage to sing and syncopate, and the movie flickers to life. Suddenly, it becomes clear that the people who made ...

The future of theater and theater education looks bright and bountiful as Taylor Petty guides Making Light student creators toward a magical production of "Mary Poppins Jr.," which runs through Jan.

Rob Marshall said he could "only think of one person" to play the magical nanny. Mary Poppins, the magical whimsical nanny, is back on Cherry Tree Lane after 54 years in the sequel “Mary Poppins ...