When the Brothers Grimm wrote down centuries of Germanic folklore in the early 1800s, they were filled with violence, gore and depravity. Unlike the more sanitized 20 th century revisions of these ...

Tommy Wirkola's 2013 action-horror dark fantasy, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, brings a more adventurous continuation to the famous German folk fairy tale about the Hansel and Gretel siblings. 15 ...

When it comes to Christmas-time family fare, there may be no equivalent to The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s ballet warhorse. In the world of opera, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel comes the ...

We all know the story. A pair of siblings—a boy and a girl—get lost in the woods and are taken in by a cannibalistic old witch. They outwit her with their smarts, barely escaping from her house of ...

Iconic horror writer Stephen King has reimagined a classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale: “Hansel and Gretel.” But King says he might never have done so if he hadn’t seen illustrations of the story by the ...

Ottawa Musicals, created by Sarah and Matt Cassidy, brings the tradition of the holiday pantomime to the GCTC stage this year ...

The Canadian Opera Company’s new production of Hansel and Gretel has arguably been the most anticipated event of its current season, and it’s mostly because of director Joel Ivany. The overture is a ...

Lumbering and lurching across the Los Angeles Opera stage this fall, life-size and larger-than-life-size puppets are stealing the show. In “Satyagraha,” Philip Glass’ music-as-mantra meditation on the ...

It’s a big bad world out there and the latest film from horror director Oz Perkins gives us just a taste of it. Orion Pictures’ 'Gretel & Hansel' is a reimagining of the well-known Grimm’s fairy tale.