The Grapes of Wrath News

Victoria Clark is one of Broadway's most valuable players, a star who can carry a show or bring vibrant life to a featured role .

These days the economic news reads like some strange collaboration between John Steinbeck and Eugene Ionesco, a mashup of The Grapes of Wrath and The Bald Soprano.

Last week the Drexel community finally got to see the product of the Drexel Players' last couple months of work as they close the 2012-13 season with "The Grapes of Wrath." Preceded by two lighter performances, "The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee" and "To Fool the Eye," the adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic is a much graver production ... (more)

"I'm excited about the whole lineup from top to bottom." - David Miller, Burlington Sound of Music Festival Executive Director Rising stars onstage and fireworks in the air will highlight this year's Sound of Music Festival.

They had on sneakers and sweats and packs . Young men with knee-length basketball shorts hanging off their hips shuffled alongside dads in cargo shorts and socks pulled up to their shins.

You know the huge musical hit "My Fair Lady," right? Film and Broadway sensation with big-show songs and lavish stage productions, iconic tunes like "Wouldn't It Be Lovely," "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "On the Street Where You Live"? The upcoming Prospect Theater Project production of the play that the story is based on isn't like that.

Can't wait for the new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio as The Great Gatsby? Here are five reasons The Great Gatsby, that gaudy Roaring Twenties tale of lost love should be ranked as the great American novel Is 'The Great Gatsby' The Great American Novel? USA TODAY's Deirdre Donahue gives five reasons why F. Scott Fitzgerald's Roaring Twenties ... (more)

The Westport Public Library will host a talk by film historian Bill Levy on his new book, "Lest We Forget: The John Ford Stock Company ," at noon on Tuesday, May 7, in the library's McManus Room, 20 Jesup Road.

Before popular music became impregnated with the bizarre old-timey decree that every hot new band must have a banjo player, dress like they're associates of the Artful Dodger or whatever, and embrace the patina, but not the core, of The Grapes of Wrath , there was the Cloverdale Fiddle Festival .

William Clay of Medlan Chapel Community has managed to combine two careers as a newspaperman and an artist for 57 years.

Elizabeth Yerxa had never read "Fahrenheit 451" until the Virginia Read committee selected the Ray Bradbury novel as this year's book.

Asolo Repertory Theatre is looking to cast four talented 10- to 12-year old children for parts in "Show Boat" and "The Grapes of Wrath." It is a paid position and auditions take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 28 and 3 to 7 p.m. Monday, April 29, at Asolo Repertory Theatre Rehearsal Hall at FSU Center for the Performing Arts, 5555 North ... (more)