Bram Stoker News

The Ambassador Theatre Group’s Lyceum Theatre in London hosted a special drinks reception to mark the Centenary Year of Bram Stoker’s death on Friday, April 20. Celebrated Dracula historian Elizabeth Miller and members of the Stoker family flew in from the US for the event, where members of the Dracula Society, in conjunction with The Lyceum Theatre, raised a toast to the celebrated writer in the venue where he wrote the infamous Dracula. See photos from the event below! (more...)

Production has commenced in Canterbury, CT on Dead Souls, Chiller's all-new original movie slated to premiere in October 2012. Adapted from the novel by Bram Stoker Award Finalist Michael Laimo, the film is written by John Doolan and directed by Colin Theys; Andrew Gernhard and Zach O'Brien will produce for Synthetic Cinema International. (more...)

Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty announced today the theater’s 2012-13 season, which will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater. DTC’s 54th season will include three world premieres; two new musicals; the culmination of DTC’s four-year Shakespeare cycle; and several nationally acclaimed plays making their North Texas debut. (more...)

On Saturday, March 31, 2012, producer Ken Davenport (Godspell) will present a private industry reading of the new musical SOMEWHERE IN TIME, based on the 1980 Universal Motion Picture of the same name by Richard Matheson. (more...)

Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein have announced the Actors Theatre’s 49th season lineup. The 2012-2013 Brown-Forman Series, Waters’ inaugural season at the helm, runs the gamut thematically from forbidden love and sibling rivalry to familial dysfunction and adolescent innocence in an exhilarating program sure to entertain, engage and delight audiences. (more...)

According to the New York Times, Oscar-winning costume designer Eiko Ishioka passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer on January 21 in Tokyo. She was 73 years old. (more...)

According to the New York Times, Oscar-winning costume designer Eiko Ishioka passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer on January 21 in Tokyo. She was 73 years old. (more...)

Following another year of successes, including double-digit growth among Adults 18-34 and the premiere of its first-ever original movie, Steve Niles' Remains, Chiller has unveiled an all-new slate of original programming, it was announced today by Thomas P. Vitale, Executive Vice President, Programming & Original Movies, Syfy and Chiller. These projects join the previously-announced original movie Brian Keene's Ghoul, currently slated to premiere in early 2012. (more...)

Champagne. Soap bubbles. Baked beans. Melted bon-bons. Four images - all part and parcel of perhaps the most famous scene he ever committed to celluloid (which, in this instance, is definitely saying something grand) - that seemingly conjure up so much of the universe of peerless British stage and film director Ken Russell. With or without Ann-Margret in a white leather cat-suit, Russell’s TOMMY is one of the most unique and enduring movie musicals of the later half of the twentieth century and his other music-based films provide a plethora of information and insight (not all of it factual and much of it often quite admittedly wrongheaded) - so, for those alone, Russell is due much praise as far as theatre fans are concerned. Yet, with WOMEN IN LOVE, Russell mastered a quite different milieu - that of Victorian sexual politics - and brought the leading lady of that picture to both an Oscar nomination (which Ann-Margret also received for TOMMY) and a win; Glenda Jackson - a frequent Russell collaborator - taking top honors for her work. Look no further than Russell’s adaptation of SALOME - or even Jackson’s cameo in THE BOY FRIEND - for more of their palpable, playful, endlessly enjoyable onscreen rapport. So, too, did Russell give Kathleen Turner and Theresa Russell the roles of their careers with CRIMES OF PASSION and WHORE, respectively, and that’s to say nothing of his long-standing and loving actor-director relationship with Oliver Reed, whose best work resides in Russell’s still-banned Catholicism and exorcism consideration, THE DEVILS. Both an actor’s director and a director’s director, Russell was always passionately committed to his vision for the potential property and that was both a gift and a curse. The eccentricities and excesses may be overwhelming for some, but over the course of his fifty-year career, Ken Russell broke down barriers and created films that we may enjoy, analyze, debate and cherish for many decades to come. (more...)

This November Minnetonka High School will continue to take theatre to new heights with Dracula - The Musical, their follow up to last year's sold out Minnesota premiere production of The Phantom of the Opera. This thrilling musical romance will run on the Arts Center on 7 Main Stage from November 4-19. (more...)

This November Minnetonka High School will continue to take theatre to new heights with Dracula - The Musical, their follow up to last year's sold out Minnesota premiere production of The Phantom of the Opera. This thrilling musical romance will run on the Arts Center on 7 Main Stage from November 4-19. (more...)

Nosferatu, a classic silent horror film with a brand new musical score by Eric Schwartz - will be screened on Friday, October 28, 2011, 7 pm at Burning Coal Theatre Company at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street in downtown Raleigh as part of Burning Coal's MusiCoal series. (more...)

With vampires such a hot topic (seriously, could the timing be any more perfect than now for the tale of a legendary bloodsucker like the Transylvanian Count?) in American popular culture, you'd think it would be a slam dunk for a theater company to stage a show like Dracula - and it would be if you had a better script to work with, the sharper focus of the creative team and more assertive direction. No matter how much fake blood you throw on the actors or makeup trickery you employ, if the actors are not all on the same page, your Dracula is more likely to drive a stake through the heart of the audience, rather than to delight them with stage magic that transports them to the play's other-worldly setting. (more...)

With the number of remaining tickets for its adaptation of MOBY-DICK running low, The Building Stage has added three additional performances of this Jeff recommended and critically acclaimed show now playing through Friday, November 4 at The Building Stage, 412 N. Carpenter Street in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood. (more...)

Geva Theatre Center's 2011-2012 Season continues with Dracula by Steven Dietz, which begins performances on October 11 and runs in the Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage through November 13. (more...)

Bay Street Players opened its 37th Season on September 16th with the production of the mystery Dracula. The play closes October 9th. (more...)

Anglophiles and Broadway babies alike rejoice at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s 2011-12 Season. (more...)

Anglophiles and Broadway babies alike rejoice at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s 2011-12 Season. (more...)

This November Minnetonka High School will continue to take theatre to new heights with Dracula - The Musical, their follow up to last year's sold out Minnesota premiere production of The Phantom of the Opera. This thrilling musical romance will run on the Arts Center on 7 Main Stage from November 4-19. (more...)

Stoneham Theatre presents Buddy Cop 2, written by The Debate Society, in association with the Ontological Theater; directed by Weylin Symes. Performances run October 20-November 6: Thurs. (7:30 pm), Fri. (8 pm), Sat. (3 pm & 8 pm), Sun. (2 pm). (more...)