British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents ...

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Can Tolstoy's weighty words and the probing tale of illicit love that follows be conveyed by mere gestures? Perhaps ...

Cigarettes After Sex have shared their new double single, "Anna Karenina", alongside a cover of "The Crystal Ship" by The Doors. The tracks showcase both their future and their past, and is the first ...

Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel & tragic story of the love affair between Vronsky, a Russian Count and Anna Karenina, a married upper class woman. Nicola ...

Bernard Rose is an English filmmaker and screenwriter. Considered a pioneer of digital filmmaking, he is best known for directing the horror films Paperhouse (1988) and Candyman (1992), the historical ...

Real '90s kids know that, at one point in time, Jude Law seemed like the hottest man who's ever lived (maybe because he kinda is). From the mid-90s up to the mid-2000s, this man was on a hot streak ...

Like "Ivansxtc" 2002 (also based on a Leo Tolstoy novel, and featured Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"), writer-director Bernard Rose optimizes classical music compositions with thoughtful imageries on ...

Natalie Dormer stars in Tolstoy’s romantic masterpiece Anna Karenina, in a new adaptation written and directed by Phillip Breen, running at Chichester Festival Theatre through 28 June. Arifa Akbar, ...

This year’s festival season at Chichester kicked off with a Russian classic in the form of Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 satire, The Government Inspector. For the second play of the season in the main house, ...

How do you adapt a book that comes in at 38 hours in its Audible version for the stage? Of course, you don’t. You choose the characters to foreground, the narratives to develop and you use every ...

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