That dichotomy – with all its allusions to what we are experiencing now in this country – is exactly what Wilma is aiming for with “The Snow Queen,” its first production planned to appeal to both the ...
The holidays are over and the last “Nutcracker” has been danced, but the Tchaikovsky repertoire gets some extra mileage this weekend with Jefferson Ballet Theatre’s production of “The Snow Queen.” JBT ...
There was once a widower and a widow who each had a daughter. One day, the widower’s daughter passed a message to her father from the widow that the woman would like to marry him, and if he agreed, ...
WILTON — For several hours this weekend, Our Lady of Fatima School will transform into a winter wonderland. The school is staging an old fairy tale, in which Gerda saves her friend Kai from the Snow ...
One of this summer's biggest films is Angelina Jolie's Maleficent, an alternative take on Sleeping Beauty illuminating the memorable villain's humanity. Maleficent comes in the wake of this past ...
Fans of Disney’s “Frozen” will recognize familiar elements from Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale in this beloved ...
At first glance, fairy tale films and movies about making movies couldn't be more different from one another. While the former focus on taking audiences to a world beyond their imagination, the latter ...
A film set is no place for little girls. In the fairy-tale-adjacent world of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s frigid dark fantasy “The Ice Tower,” an orphan runs away from her foster home and takes refuge in ...
Boy, Snow, Bird reimagines the traditional Snow White fairy tale. Helen Oyeyemi's new novel explores beauty, envy and identity in New England in the 1950s — race and skin color shape the characters' ...
Once upon a time there was a young girl who went for a walk in the forest, searching for a dove which she could hear singing. The girl forgot the way home, and when the sun set she began to cry.