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...played by Patrick J. Wicker ’13—is an appropriate foil for Little Red Riding Hood. Where she is adamantly inquisitive and at times even bloodthirsty, Jack is innocent to the point of utter foolishness. It is Jack’s encounter with the beanstalk that precipitates the tumultuous events of the second act. After “Ever After,” the number that closes the first act, the plot takes a turn for the darker...
...population growth will occur in cities that can't easily feed themselves. Add the fact that modern agriculture and everything associated with it--deforestation, chemical-laden fertilizers and carbon-emitting transportation--is a significant contributor to climate change, and suddenly vertical farming doesn't seem so magic beanstalk...
...some idea of the beanstalk-like progress of a Bourne show, consider Edward Scissorhands, which opened in London in November 2005. To bring Tim Burton's gothic coming-of-age film to the stage, New Adventures raised $2 million from investors, and Arts Council England put in a further $780,000. Scissorhands played British venues until the autumn of 2006, then took off for Korea, Japan and the U.S., where it toured until spring 2007. In May of this year, a revived version of the show traveled to Australia, launching a national tour at the Sydney Opera House. The company...
Jack and the Beanstalk this play is not. Children's theater--or theater for young audiences, to use the politically correct term--is growing up. Once a place where community actors donned bright plaid costumes to act out fairy tales for little tykes, it has become a haven for some of the most committed and creative theater people in the country. These venues still draw the biggest crowds with the familiar kiddie favorites, from Charlotte's Web to Go, Dog. Go! But increasingly they are commissioning new works, reaching out to older kids, who typically stop going to theater when...
...stirs debate on current issues and lets us contextualize academia in new ways. But what, if anything, can we make of books like basketball star Shaquille O’Neal’s rewrite of an old fable, which was published by Scholastic under the name Shaq and the Beanstalk...