Mark Twain News Archives

Published: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 5:54 a.m. One hundred twenty five years ago, The Washington Monument was just being completed.

Theater for Young Audiences will hold auditions for its 21st-season musical, 'Paintin' the Fence,' Tuesday, Nov.

Fans of the classic American writer Mark Twain will have the chance to experience his work in a whole new art form --- on a Utah stage, in a farcical comedy.

A celebration honoring the 125 years of service the Vigilant Hose Company has provided the town of Emmitsburg will take place Sunday.

Mark Twain was not big on anniversaries. "What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light," he observed.

You know time is passing way too fast when Nashville Children's Theatre starts recycling shows.

Oct. 19, 1999 - School board ethnic committee members gave their unanimous blessing to a resolution that attempts to quell the recent controversy surrounding the teaching of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in Fairbanks public schools.

When Oswego School District Superintendent Dr. Daniel O'Donnell began his educational career more than 30 years ago, it was to teach music.

IT took guts for the Irish Repertory Theatre to present a production of Eugene O'Neill's 1920 classic "The Emperor Jones" that is faithful to the playwright's original intentions.

Given my most recent column, I felt it would be appropriate to include here the notice contained in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : "PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

Stages St. Louis has announced their 2010 summer season. It will include BIG RIVER, PROMISES, PROMISES, and STATE FAIR as its three musicals.

Blake Lowell has replaced Billy Magnussen in the reading Monday at 7:30 p.m. of the new stage adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" -- part of Hartford Stage's "Brand:NEW" play reading series which begins Friday.

October 13, 2009, 6:48 AM / The proposal to find a way to showcase Buffalo's storehouse of literary and scientific treasures is not merely an idea whose time has come.

Alan Gribben, an English and philosophy professor at Auburn Montgomery, recently wrote the foreword for a special edition of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' which was selected as the Big Read for 2010.

Maybe that's why the apple has always been associated with the two strongest emotions we have: death and love.

You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that it loses itself early and does not find itself any more.

Eoin Colfer was a primary school teacher when Artemis Fowl , his extremely successful first novel for children, was published in 2001.

Standing halfway between the Mark Twain Room and the Rare Book Room in the Central Library, County Executive Chris Collins on Wednesday announced the formation of a commission to study how best to showcase Buffalo's trove of literary and scientific treasures.

Remember Tom, Huck, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly and the Injun Joe? After entertaining local elementary school groups this week, these classic characters from the imagination of Mark Twain will stick around for public performances this weekend and next.

Haven't read Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" in a while? Dust it off and discover it's not just a kid's book as Tom becomes this year's One Book One Putnam selection.

Here's a review of Big River by a student from Cypress Creek High School: Huck and Jim are up a creek without a paddle in Ocoeea s production of Big River , a rollicking adventure of escaping slaves, nefarious fugitives, mistaken identity and one very charismatic hooligan.

They were something he encountered way back when he was a newspaper reporter in Nevada , writing of "spectres starting up from behind tomb-stones, and you weaken accordingly - the cold chills creep over you - our hair stands on end - you reverse your front, and with all possible alacrity, you change your base." Later, they were the subject of one ...

When hearing some of the gloom-and-doom forecasts frequently offered about the modern newspaper industry, I am reminded of a quote from Mark Twain.

The annual celebration of Banned Books Week takes place Sept. 27 through Oct. 3 this year.