Have a good show? Hardly. Good luck? Never! No, we always tell performers to “break a leg.” You probably know what this common saying means, but where does break a leg come from? As a longtime ...

In theater, we often say "break a leg" to wish someone good luck, but for a senior at Chartiers-Houston High School, she quite literally broke her leg. Now, one of her classmates came to the rescue to ...

There was a time when I used to consort with musos and thesps. Just before they mounted the stage they would often exhort each other to ‘break a leg’, meaning good luck or give it your best shot. It ...