Idle Muse Theatre Company’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is good, dark Halloween-season entertainment, especially if you’re a fan of the Hammer/Amicus/American International Pictures-style of lurid rethinkings of Victorian horror classics. Adapted by Michael Dalberg and directed by Morgan Manasa, this production ups the sex-and-violence aspects of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 […]
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Lana Turner shines as FilmStruck’s Star of the Week
FilmStruck’s “star of the week” Lana Turner shines in these five films.
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Mary Zimmerman’s Treasure Island is most remarkable for what it isn’t
The adapter-director’s latest for Lookingglass tells the classic story straight.
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Mary Zimmerman hits the decks with the pirate classic Treasure Island
“Sea voyages are in almost every thing I’ve ever done,” Mary Zimmerman acknowledged in an e-mail exchange. The auteur, known for stage realizations of The Odyssey, The Argonauticka, and other watery epics, supposes that the ocean holds a “great romance” for her because she grew up in landlocked Nebraska. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Inland” (“What […]
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Fiction Week: Treasure Island!!!
Sara Levine’s novel Treasure Island!!! is really good!!! And really funny!!!