Dec 22nd, 2005 · Director and choreographer Susan Stroman makes her screen directing debut with the new film version of The Producers, the screen adaptation of the Broadway hit starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. Stroman also directed the musical on stage.
Dec 17th, 2005 · The beginning of January marks the deadline for most college admissions applications. The Unversity of Virginia's freshmen may not be anxious to revisit this period, but they can anyway: A play called Voices of the Class, 2009 offers adaptations of their application essays.
Dec 9th, 2005 · Director Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is the story of the love and friendship between two cowboys in the early 1960s. NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews the movie. Then, writers Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry discuss adapting Annie Proulx's short story into the two-hour film.
Dec 6th, 2005 · The James Bond theme music is as synonymous with 007 as a martini, "shaken, not stirred." But the song started out as part of a never-performed musical score adapted from V.S. Naipaul's book A House for Mr. Biswas.
Dec 5th, 2005 · For more than 30 years, The Homecoming has been a Christmas staple on cable TV. Earl Hamner wrote the script based loosely on his life growing up in rural Virginia. It spawned a popular series, The Waltons. Now there is a new, more realistic adaptation of the story for the stage.
Dec 1st, 2005 · Writer Alice Walker talks about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, which has been adapted for a Broadway musical opening Thursday.
Nov 11th, 2005 · Director Joe Wright's screen adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" opens today, but members of the Jane Austen Society have already gotten a sneak peek. Some of the group's members have openly criticized the movie, much to the chagrin of the film studio.
Nov 11th, 2005 · Knightley in 'Pride and Prejudice' November 11, 2005 · The Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice takes to the screen again, in an adaptation starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet; Matthew MacFadyen as Mr. Darcy; and Donald Sutherland as Elizabeth's father.