John Steinbeck News

Keegan Theatre has brought their Ireland tour production to the Keegan home in Washington DC.

OaoIn following the plight of the homeless population encamped along the St. Johns River over the past two months - culminating in their eviction last week - I am hauntingly reminded of the desperate situation of the 500,000 Dust Bowl migrants who immigrated to California during the 1930s.

America's premier folkloric troubadour, Tom Russell approaches his 60th birthday as thorny and feisty as ever.

The Kanawha County Library is holding a Book Brawl to find out what's the favorite book of Kanawha County residents.

Few novels written in the U.S. are more penetrating and riveting than John Steinbeck's 1939 blockbuster The Grapes of Wrath.

Dear Mr. Inman: My daughter is reading John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" as I did at her age in high school.

The truck is loaded, and Ma Joad is still in the house, going through a box of trinkets.

John Steinbeck's characters Lennie and George will take to the stage of the Zeiterion in New Bedford in the Barter Theater Company production "Of Mice and Men" Friday.

The famed Barter Theatre of Virgina will be bringing the classic play "Of Mice and Men" to the Collins Center in Orono, Nov.

In one corner, the library of award-winning novelist John Steinbeck's hometown. In the other corner, one of the most famous libraries of the ancient world, the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.

The Cabrillo College Theater Arts Department proudly inaugurated its stunning new Crocker Theater with an appropriately exceptional choice of material: John Steinbeck's incomparable "The Grapes of Wrath," adapted for the stage by Frank Galati.

The folks at The Keegan Theater have brought Of Mice and Men , that bane of high school sophomores everywhere, to the stage of their new home at the Church Street Theater.

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.