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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The novels of Stephen King may not seem designed for bedtime reading, at least if you value a good night’s sleep, but the author has always had a fondness for fairy tales. Especially ...

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 ...

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 ...

The movie stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. These films take action to hilarious new levels. They should probably just start a shared universe with Vin Diesel. The film will mark Bruno Aveillan ...