The Grapes of Wrath News

A benefit auction for Jerry Moak of Rayville has been rescheduled for 5 p.m. Nov.

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 ...

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.

While watching live news feed updates on Facebook the other day, I was suddenly reminded of the time I read "The Grapes of Wrath." Veiled concern weighed on one post after another.

Bette Moore's vintage clothing store has been a mainstay on Madison's Main Street for 28 years.

The marvelous thing about John Steinbeck -- which you realize whether you read a grand work like "The Grapes of Wrath" or a more modest creation like "Of Mice and Men" -- is his unwavering authenticity of language and purpose.

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

"Spike Heels" will open tonight at Cal Poly Pomona, one of two plays set to be put on by the university's Theatre Department in the next month.

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.

Louisiana Tech's Theatre Deparment is presenting 'The Grapes of Wrath' as the first show of the season.

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

Pioneer Library System is preparing to participate in the National Endowment for the Arts' The Big Read for 2011, the largest federal reading program in U.S. history.

The Great Depression has rolled off many a pundit's tongue of late as we strain to make sense of the current economic meltdown.

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.

I don't want to read about the Gosselins anymore. They bore me. They aren't news.

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, ...

The Biedenharn Museum and Gardens is the site for The Big Read: "The Grapes of Wrath" book discussion Oct.

"The Grapes of Wrath," which is part of a 21-parish commemoration of the Great Depression, will be shown outdoors tonight at The Farm, 417 E. Union.

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.