LONDON — Dame Edna Everage was the original tradwife, except there was nothing traditional about her. With her colored wigs and wacky cat-eye glasses, she was the creation of the late Australian ...

The New York Times obituary for Barry Humphries extolled the life and career of a beloved actor of stage, screen, and television. You could be forgiven if you didn't recognize his name, but surely not ...

Barry Humphries, the actor and creator of Dame Edna Everage, has died at the age of 89 in Sydney. The Tony-winning Australian comedian was readmitted to the hospital on Wednesday due to complications ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by An Appraisal Audiences were eager to humbly suffer the stinging quips tossed out by the towering figure that was Barry Humphries’s creation. By Ben ...

Editor's note: The following is reprint of a weekly Tuesday newsletter from NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters. You can sign up for the weekly newsletter here. Last Friday, I read at Boston.com that ...

She’s Australian royalty, a major player on the world stage, a self-described “gigastar”. But our magical mauve-haired Dame Edna Everage insists that at heart she remains an immensely humble woman ...

Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted ...

Barry Humphries, an Australian comedian who created and embodied the lilac-coiffed, cat-eye-bespectacled Dame Edna Everage, a character that began in the 1950s as a satire on suburbia and evolved into ...

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