The cast of "Mary Poppins" rehearses at Jackson High School. The musical is Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at the Jackson Center for the Performing Arts.© Kevin Whitlock / Massillon Independent ...

You will not see Bert in Mary Poppins Returns. But you will see Dick Van Dyke, the legendary 92-year-old actor who played him.

It’s hard to believe, as legend has it, that author P.L. Travers was highly disapproving of Walt Disney’s 1964 screen musical based on her “Mary Poppins” books. For nearly 60 years now, an ...

This is a paean to Mary Poppins, that mythical, magical person who could fly over the rooftops of London by holding onto an umbrella and who delighted her young charges with whimsical outings. I ...

Part of the new film’s nostalgia, however, is bound up in a blackface performance tradition that persists throughout the Mary Poppins canon, from P. L. Travers’s books to Disney’s 1964 ...

See what Newsday's film critic had to say about the original "Mary Poppins" at the time of its release. "Mary Poppins Returns," starring Emily Blunt as the nanny, hits theaters Dec. 19.

Mary poppins is the lead character in a series of eight children’s books written by P.L. Travers from 1934 to 1988. Walt Disney studios adapted the story into a movie in 1964.

Mary Poppins Lyrics and music by Robert and Richard Sherman. Additional lyrics by Anthony Drewe and additional music by Drewe and George Stiles. Book by Julian Fellowes. New Amsterdam Theatre.

Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins will fly into Madach Theater Sept. 21-23. The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and ...

The Souderton Area High School production of “Mary Poppins,” which has a cast of more than 80 and 20 crew members, runs Thursday, March 28, through Saturday, March 30, at 7 p.m. and Sunday ...

Clutching her parrot umbrella and bag, Mary Poppins (Cayman Ilika) opens Nov. 13, and runs through Jan. 4 at the Issaquah location before it delivers its "Spoonful of Sugar" in Everett from Jan. 9 ...