Robert Louis Stevenson News

More than 70 youngsters aged 4-13 will take to the Leighton Buzzard Theatre stage this week with Leighton Buzzard Children's Theatre's latest production Treasure Island The Musical.

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A community buyout of a parcel of land next to a historic lighthouse, designed by the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson, has moved a step closer.

A fish market in Apia, Samoa where many of the people rely on fish as a main source of protein.

Pint-sized buccaneers and mini adventurers with a hearty desire to travel the high seas are in for a treat this weekend.

Robert Louis Stevenson said, "We all sell something: a product, an idea or a service." When you think about it, every profession is dependent on communication skills.

"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites , a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae , loosely tied" by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" .

It's hard to guess what the biggest book to come out of this year's BookExpo America might be, but I'm pretty sure I spoke with the biggest author.

HIS defiance was immortalised in the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, but there was little dispute when it came to choosing Edinburgh's Greatest.

Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle never met -- although they attended the same university a year apart and were fans of each other's stories -- but thanks to playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, their work is joined in Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club .

Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga will open Jekyll and Hyde, the 1997 musical by Frank Wildhorn, Leslie Bricusse, and Steve Cuden, on Friday, June 7. The production will run through Sunday, June 23, with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. There will also be two Thursday performances, taking place on June 13 ... (more)