The “Madea” movies have only intermittently done right by the character of Madea. Tyler Perry’s creation Mabel “Madea” Simmons is an outrageously anarchic agent of chaos that, until now, has never fit ...

If you want to know just how stupid the current campaign against drag really is, I present to you Mabel Earlene Simmons. She was born June 26, 1935, in a small town about an hour outside of Baton ...

Actor Tyler Perry, whose drag performances as an elderly African-American woman named Madea have resulted in explicable live-action success, has transferred his Madea act to animation with the ...