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KBAQ Theater Critic Chris Curcio reviews the Arizona Theatre Compamy production of "The 39 Steps" that is based on John Buchan's 1905 novel and the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation about the adventures of mild-mannered Richard Hannay as he deals with murder, espionage and several entanglments as he travels from London to the Scottish Highlands ... (more)

"When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants." Reportedly Steven Knight will write the screenplay for the film remake.

Kurt Bestor, Emmy Award-winning composer, will be guest conductor and host for the Cape Cod Symphony's "Night at the Movies, the Music that Makes Movies Magical" HYANNIS - Guest conductor Kurt Bestor reviewed the history of how music got into the movies in a concert that paired the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra's wonderful sound with a series of film ... (more)

I had the extreme pleasure of seeing the Arizona Theatre Company production of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps and haven't laughed so much since I previewed the pre-Broadway run of Spamalot in Chicago.

Stocks had their worst day of the year Friday after Greece hit a roadblock on its way to a critical... You couldn't be blamed if you were to try to find Alfred Hitchcock doing cameo appearances in La Grange, Ky., these days.

I finally saw The Artist yesterday , and it certainly brought to mind Singin' in the Rain, Sunset Blvd, and even All About Eve, though Peppy is certainly no Eve Harrington..a Janice a great conclusion.

A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.

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To be fair, it's more of an adaptation of Daphne DuMaurier's novel, but nevertheless, it's going before the screen again.

A new version of Rebecca is on its way courtesy of DreamWorks and Working Title.

A remake of Alfred Hitchcock 's 1940 thriller Rebecca is currently in the works, with Eastern Promises ' screenwriter Steven Knight set to pen the script.

A touring conference celebrating all things mobile will make its first stop in this region Monday, March 5th at Northern Kentucky University.

The Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Va., seldom, if ever, brings anything back right off the bat, but "The 39 Steps" is making a big exception.

KBAQ Theater Critic Chris Curcio reviews the Arizona Theatre Company production of the comedy "The 39 Steps" that is based on the popular Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller film that focuses on mild-mannered Richard Hannay who starts the evening at the theater and ends it later that night with a dead body in his lap.

Berlinale came to fruition thanks to the initiative of American Film Officer Oscar Martay.

A dastardly murder, a dead bodies, and a splendid dinner party all come together in Patrick Hamilton's "Rope," the first show of the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club's spring season.

Normally the light in Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero's spare Humboldt Park apartment is plain, not funky at all.

Summary can hardly do justice to the sheer quantity of inventive theatrics that makes The 39 Steps such a great night of theater.

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Set in England, but representing Alfred Hitchcock's migration from directing in that country to America, Rebecca doesn't achieve the shock of Psycho or the psychological richness of Vertigo .