Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Abrahams, a film director and writer behind hit slapstick comedies like “Airplane!,” “Hot Shots!,” the “Naked Gun” series and ...

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Anything can happen in community theater, and that’s never truer than in Centreville High’s upcoming production of “The Play that Goes Wrong (high-school edition).” Actors forget their lines, props ...

On March 8, the Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline featured Elizabeth Dapo’s “Rapunzel,” a 40-minute show adapted from the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale rather than the Disney film “Tangled.” Dapo is ...

Jim Abrahams, a film director and writer behind hit slapstick comedies like “Airplane!,” “Hot Shots!,” the “Naked Gun” series and more, died Tuesday, his son Joseph confirmed to Variety. He was 80.

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