John Steinbeck News

The cast for Cabrillo College’s production of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ includes, from left, Caber Russell, Tom Goldrup, Michael Gomes, Katia Burke, Leah Creatura and Jaye Wolfe Before the rehearsal, the cast and crew of "The Grapes of Wrath" thought about hard times, drought, the idea of family -- and about having an excellent space to ...

Mike Ostroski can see the parallels between his life as a traveling actor and that of his character in John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men." Ostroski plays Lennie, the lumbering giant who wanders the Depression-era country from place to place with his friend George.

Mike Ostroski plays Lennie and Ashley Campos plays Curley's wife in the Barter Theater touring production of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," at Five Flags Theater.

Turner Classic Movies airs classic films based on the work of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist John Steinbeck throughout the evening of Tuesday, November 3. The night begins with the big three, "East of Eden," "The Grapes of Wrath," and "Of Mice and Men," which combined for 15 total Oscar nominations, three of which were winners.

Two of the 20th century's best-known characters will amble across the Mathis City Auditorium stage next week.

We've never met so I hope you won't think this a bit cheeky, me writing you and all, but when I read how you read a book a day for 365 days, I was intrigued and jealous at the same time.

It's not just that John Steinbeck 's 1939 novel is a Pulitzer Prize -winning masterpiece.

A challenging play for challenging times, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' epically and expertly staged by the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, shoves our current recession into sobering perspective.

Sunday morning I found myself in the family room pedaling furiously on my spinning cycle while watching John Steinbeck's classic film adapted novel, The Grapes of Wrath , with a young Henry Fonda and slew of other Hollywood stars cutting their teeth to make a name for themselves.

Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain't no good and they die out, but we keep on coming.

On Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2009, congressman Barney Frank appeared opposite Ralph Nader on "The Ed Schultz Show." When Nader questioned Frank's far-left bona fides, Frank quickly responded, "we are trying on every front to increase the role of government." This is what today's liberal movement has become.

The final pages of Morris Dickstein's monumental panorama of the 1930s, Dancing in the Dark , present a neat analogy between The Wizard of Oz, the Hollywood fantasy film released in 1939, and The Grapes of Wrath , John Steinbeck's grim novel of rural poverty, published to popular acclaim the same year.

Dr. Susan Schillinglaw , Scholar in residence at the National Steinbeck Center and Professor of English at the San Jose State University, will tour North Louisiana this month, and will be in Shreveport Saturday and Sunday, October 24-25. She is recognized as the foremost authority on author, John Steinbeck,and has authored the book "John Steinbeck, ...

John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men" jumps from the page to the stage in this touring production by Virginia's Barter Theatre.

FRESNO, California , Oct 21 - They call it Tortilla Flats - a haphazard cluster of tents and tarps sprawling across a sidewalk and a vacant lot smack in the middle of Fresno, a city of 500,000 in California's Central Valley.

Bass Rod Nelman and tenor Michael Hendrick are indelibly connected to George and Lennie, the pair of tragically aligned characters who define Carlisle Floyd's opera "Of Mice and Men." For more than a decade, the two singers have performed these roles, sometimes separately, and elsewhere on the same stage - a process they'll repeat when Kentucky ...

Allison Hoover Bartlett, author of "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much," will read from her book Oct.

First and foremost I would like to thank La Sirena and Duke City Fix for their generous gift - two tickets to see, "Of Mice and Men". Thank you! Last night was another beautiful Albuquerque evening and it was particularly special because I had two tickets to see Barter Theatre 's production, "Of Mice and Men". Popejoy has hit a home run with Barter ...

This debate features Andrew Napolitano, Fox News Channel legal analyst and a former superior court judge, and Michael Waldman, a public interest attorney and former aide to President Clinton.

It isn't every day a famous actor comes to Frederick . Mike Farrell, best known for his role as B. J. Hunnicutt in the TV series "M*A*S*H," was here Tuesday night.