The Miracle Worker News

The Miracle Worker is the inspiring story of American author, political activist and lecturer Helen Keller.

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Abigail Breslin has landed a role in the Broadway play The Miracle Worker . Breslin will take the role of blind and deaf hero Helen Keller, and some people are pissed! There are those who feel that the role of Keller should have gone to someone from the deaf and blind community and not the 13-year-old Oscar nominated actress.

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From spunky "Little Miss Sunshine" to an even more heroic young girl. This photo taken Sept.

The Anglo-French passenger jet Concorde in flight. Today is Monday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2009.

Melissa Gilbert will say that 'everything' is different now that she's 45 rather than 9. Back then, taking part in the TV show Little House on the Prairie simply meant hanging around with a horse and puppies, answering to the name 'Half Pint' and courageously jumping into 'gigantic' adventures.

Today is Monday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2009. There are 73 days left in the year.

1910 Jean Genet, a male prostitute and thief who turned to writing plays and novels about society's outcasts is born today.

For those of us who remember a time when many families didn't have color TV, a remote control or even video games, hearing the theme song from "The Patty Duke Show" -- "They're cousins / Identical cousins, all the way" -- takes us back to black-and-white television sets and split-screen special effects.

Published: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 5:00 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. Today is Monday, Oct.

It can't be done without Helen. A successful production of 'The Miracle Worker' depends on a convincing portrayal of Helen Keller as a child living without sight or sound.

Meg Roe promises to strip The Miracle Worker down to its beautiful bones. The production that Roe is directing runs at the Playhouse from tonight to October 31, but William Gibson's script started life in 1957 on television's dramatic anthology Playhouse 90.

Sentimental? Yes. Done a thousand times? Yes. Still, despite the folderol of the script, The Miracle Worker usually packs a punch - if the production manages to find a good Helen Keller.

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, a new musical based on the beloved Laura Ingalls Wilder series of classic American books, will arrive on November 24 at the Fox Theatre in St.

It was none other than Mark Twain who dubbed Anne Sullivan "the miracle worker." The legendary man of letters had befriended Sullivan and her young deaf/blind student, Helen Keller, and like everyone else was dazzled by Sullivan's amazing ability to unlock a whole new world for her once-troubled pupil.

F or baby boomers, revisiting TV series from their youth can be daunting. Will the shows make one wax nostalgic for one's childhood, or hang one's head in embarrassment? Thankfully, two vintage titles being released via Shout! Factory -- "The Patty Duke Show: The Complete First Season" , out last week, and "Mister Ed: The Complete First Season" , ...

When aliens attack, the government calls on the monsters they have locked away to save the day.

Here are some of the latest TV shows to land on DVD, led by the debut of a 1960s sitcom with Patty Duke in two roles.

A light and sweet fantasy - the very definition of "wholesome," I would think - and expertly played.