| 单词 | retell |
| 例句 | Somewhere in the retelling, the swimming suits the participants actually wore were removed from the story and the innocent diversion became a nude debauch. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But the story that occupied my mind for the longest time, the story that I retold over and over, was about a baby elephant named Boo. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He told and retold the story of the children of Israel, and how they escaped from bondage, to a group of slaves who were his followers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z That year, 1831, when Harriet regarded herself as sufficiently grown up to wear a bandanna, she kept hearing a strange, fascinating story, told and retold, in the quarter, in the fields. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Professor Trelawney seemed to consider the matter for a moment, but Harry could tell that she liked the idea of retelling her little adventure. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z At Girls' Lodge, he heard, the girls talked long into the evening, retelling their own tales to each other. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was told and retold; things were forgotten, or shaped and changed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Our world had been turned upside down, and now we had to retell our horror story. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z His inspiring sermons retold the story of Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt and to freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He listened to the conversation around him, the joking, the needling, the telling and retelling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As for the boom, it had become a faraway blur, a kind of confused, powerful, contradictory dream that made some people chuckle and others wince in the retelling of it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, the song relives and retells the experiences of a child in another century and makes her story highly relatable to us today. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z While making New Year’s resolutions, we also count our blessings and retell stories about the past year and the lessons we have learned and what we can do to be better this year. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was a story that v\\as told and retold. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Abby and I found a food truck, got in line, and she launched into a heated retelling of all her catches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Suesetta and I retell the whole conversation to each other, like we need to hear it again in order to understand what just happened. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was a tale that she relished retelling, and her rich accounts shed plenty of light on what happened next. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In history, Sally was still retelling the story, though everyone at school must have heard it about a hundred times by now. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mate and I could keep the house entertained for hours, telling and retelling the horrors until the sting was out of them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost everyone had one, and those that didn’t added to the tales by retelling them. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Hedge began retelling the story, but in his version Piper was a kung fu assassin and there were a lot more Boreads. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I went back to class during third period and was bombarded with requests to retell the story. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z But just to make sure the attention didn’t stray too far from her, Vonetta became Little Miss Ethel Waters and practiced the next day’s retelling for Ma Charles. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Just a fluffy m/m retelling of the school concert scene. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z However, I’m not sure how modesty figures in my retelling the tale to you. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z And always there are mysteries in the desert, stories told and retold of secret places in the desert mountains where surviving clans from an older era wait to re-emerge. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Morrison, coming home, would tell of the day and get listened to, and he would try to retell the drummer’s stories—some of them at least. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, in fact, we do. We have The Five Chinese Brothers—it’s a beautiful retelling of a famous Chinese folktale.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I heard myself while I retold the whole thing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “I asked her four times before she said yes,” he’d always say, retelling one of his favorite Sinclair family legends. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Vonetta was only too happy to transform her face and her voice into Miss Trotter’s to retell the story of our oldest known ancestor, Augustus the runaway. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When she retold them, her husky voice pitched low, she made them sound as though they had really happened. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry noticed that Ron’s version of events changed subtly with every retelling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Hearing him retell it—seeing how impassive he looked in a videotape of the court proceeding, it’s hard to make sense of how singular and important the moment was for him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What if it goes on forever, the telling and retelling? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When we asked Miss Trotter if he came back she said no, and Vonetta matched her sorrow when she retold it to Ma Charles. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “A terrible secret,” Bethan called it, enjoying the attention she received as she retold the embellished story. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He started all over and retold what he had said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She retold the story of how Estella won the dress by dancing until four in the morning. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t help but wonder how Mr. Marsden had retold last night’s encounter. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t realize he’s been talking for an hour until he finishes retelling what happened at dinner and Henry says, “It sounds like you did your best.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The article also retold what had happened to him. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved retelling key moments in Sinclair family history, enlarging their importance. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z As in some radical retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, society’s normally invisible workings had been made briefly visible. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Herbie retold his story about traveling to Mexico, Japan, and Germany and returning to America on a U-boat. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She had told and retold the story of the count’s death of fever in the desert so often that she had come to believe it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There are none to equal them in Greek mythology, except those retold by the tragic poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, retell The Wizard of Oz from the point of view of the Wicked Witch.’ Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "You and me and Haymitch. Very cozy. Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights around the fire retelling old Hunger Games' tales." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The problem with retelling the story was that it made me relive it, and I didn’t want to remember the feeling of coming close to having my ribs crushed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The continued influence of settler colonialism and genocide show up when history is retold in a way that celebrates settlers and makes Indigenous peoples disappear from the historical record. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z This idea is the basis of the origin story of the United States, a story that, like a myth, has been retold for hundreds of years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z June played us a gloomy-sounding song on the cello while August retold black Mary’s story start to finish. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This week on L.A.'s small and midsize stages we have familiar stories pared back to their essence, retold in a new context or combined with fresh elements in unexpected ways. The 99-Seat Beat: Danny Glover, 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' and a multimedia 'Macbeth' 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Yet Dominic Lieven's new book is more than a lively retelling of the story of Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812. 'Russia Against Napoleon': A new book for fans of military history 2010-05-26T23:57:00Z What follows is a retelling of 30 years of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi history interspersed with the evolution of Saleem and his counterpart-turned-rival, Shiva. Lovely ‘Midnight’s Children’ crams in birth of a nation — and 2 boys 2013-05-09T20:50:32Z Her mother, Susan Cinoman, is a playwright currently working on a feminist retelling of the King Arthur legend who divorced Ms. Brier’s father, a cardiologist, when she was 5. Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z He retold many of the same stories, with some delicious extra detail thrown in for good measure. Solomon Burke: gone but never forgotten 2010-10-11T12:58:00Z In Ms. Guy’s retelling, a Creole peasant woman falls in love with a wealthy man but finds she cannot transcend his family’s class prejudice. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z Here’s her retelling of what sounds like a pretty unpleasant experience taking drugs and rubbing her corduroy pants: Maureen Dowd ate a large dose of a marijuana chocolate bar, freaked out, wrote about it 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z And they have been jarringly cast in a wholly different light as a torrent of women have told — and in some cases retold — graphic, highly detailed stories of alleged abuse by Cosby. Bill Cosby’s legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault allegations One of the most revered literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, wrote this musical retelling of the nativity story in the early '60s. 3 things to do this weekend -- with or without kids 2011-12-16T18:45:43Z What the book could use less of, ironically, is the retelling of all the Founding Father stories we already know so well. ‘A Most Imperfect Union,’ a retelling of U.S. history by Ilan Stavans and Lalo Alcaraz Neil was very clear from the beginning: The movie’s obviously been made, and to do a faithful retelling of it in the serialized version would feel like we were maybe eating someone else’s sandwich. Paul and Justin Theroux on Eccentric Patriarchs and ‘The Mosquito Coast’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z This week Bird's radical retelling of Euripides' The Trojan Women opened in the intimate space of Notting Hill's Gate theatre. Trojan tragedy goes modern 2012-11-15T06:55:18Z The incident is retold in this book, although with less distance; it is as if she has shrugged off her restraints. Leslie Jamison's 'The Recovering' finds her truth in a failed love affair with drinking 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z One final detail I insisted that my mom include with each retelling: “And then you got a shot?” When anti-violence backfires 2012-06-02T15:00:00Z Through the retelling of that story and the explication of rituals and symbols, Seder participants are supposed to become convinced that the Exodus happened to them. Music Review: In a Tale of Deliverance, It?s Moses to the Rescue 2011-04-22T22:56:01Z Religions are kept alive by the retelling of stories, and the Exodus Experience was a way of reminding these children where they had come from. My month of being Jewish 2010-04-08T07:00:00Z Budiansky’s “Oliver Wendell Holmes” is a lively, accessible book, retelling the story of its subject’s life and work for a generation that knows Holmes was important but not why. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Completed in 2009, it retells a Hans Christian Andersen story, here set in a postwar Polish village and shot in black and white reminiscent of 1970s Eastern European realism. Art: Gallery Week, With Zwirner, Nolan, Petzel and More 2010-05-06T22:23:00Z Mr. Pullman’s book is a straightforward retelling of 50 stories selected from the “Children’s and Household Tales” collected by the philologists and folklore scholars Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in 19th-century Germany. Books of The Times: ‘Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm,’ by Philip Pullman 2012-12-17T22:41:07Z She’s the one who locked the phone in the safe, he acknowledges in the retelling. Benny Johnson got fired at BuzzFeed. You will believe what happened next. 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z After the shooting her family gathered, Ms. Iqbal says, retelling stories again and again, as if repetition might change the ending. Motherlode Blog: Staying in an Abusive Marriage 2011-08-23T17:07:32Z It’s anything but a straightforward retelling of two lives, with the first half focused on Thomas and the second half, Beulah. Rita Dove's collected poems should put her back in the center of the American conversation 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Joanna Trollope, who chaired the judging panel, described Miller's retelling of the ancient Greek myth as "inventive, passionate, uplifting and different" at the awards ceremony in London's Royal Festival Hall. Madeline Miller wins Orange Prize for Fiction 2012-05-30T20:08:16Z For ages the epics have been told, retold, fiddled with. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z But the reason they are told and retold in countless adaptations is because they express themes that people relate to. Like "Little Women," books by Zitkála-Šá and Taha Hussein are classics 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z The book begins with Holden directly addressing you, the reader, and he begins to retell the events over a three day period from last December. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - review 2012-06-21T08:00:00Z I think the story needs to be retold. Lynda Carter: Wonder Woman for the ages 2011-02-17T21:54:00Z Her sunny smile and open gaze doesn't wane until the steady weight of his grift stacks up against her retelling of his con. Is "The Tinder Swindler" one of those true crime tales that might strengthen relationships? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z After years of retelling the story of Hanukkah to my classmates, I always believed Hanukkah was a big deal, as big as Passover and Yom Kippur. “I’m a bad Jew”: Amid those celebrating Purim in Boro Park I felt more than ever like an outsider Jew — but I come from a long line of outsider Jews 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z A glance at the top performers tells the story — or, more accurately, retells it: “Avengers: Endgame.” Perspective | Summer movies circa 2019: A season of random blips and nostalgia trips 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z This kind of retelling offers a wealth of opportunity to examine aspects of the familiar story in a completely new light and is both exciting and enormously satisfying to read. Review | ‘By Force Alone’ is an exciting and wickedly funny reimagining of the King Arthur legend 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Groff's retelling of certain key scenes is subtle, and the distinctions resonate. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z And despite her living presence, Abramović's art gets somehow buried by her life, however inventively retold. Manchester international festival: Room with no view 2011-07-11T20:30:01Z There is no way I can wash, dry and put them away, and still be available to help my son with pre-algebra, or listen to my daughter’s retelling of life through her 6-year-old filter. The ugly, exhausting reality of parenting, and why we hide it from our children 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The whole, terrible story is retold here, complete with flimsy reconstructions, melodramatic music and tawdry narration. TV highlights 18/12/2012 2012-12-17T19:59:01Z The movie star, whose next film is called Maleficent - a Disney retelling of Sleeping Beauty - rose from third place on 2012's list. Angelina Jolie highest-paid actress 2013-07-30T06:48:22Z “Does this feel anticlimactic to you?” she asks, when she’s done retelling it. Comic or Graphic, Shows About Abortion Surface a Stark Divide 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z In this vein, the book retells a joke, about an Englishman at the opticians. Bloody Foreigners by Robert Winder, updated for our turbulent times 2013-06-10T07:01:11Z Twice on the anniversary of our encounter, I had him on my former radio show to retell the story. A jogger saved Mike Wise’s life. Six years later, the columnist got to repay him. In retelling the story, he panted to show how labored her breathing was and quoted her last words to him — which were about the afterlife: “‘ There is one. Jacques d’Amboise, a Ballet Star Who Believed in Dance for All 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Recognizing the role of churches in the movement, Ms. Bey still takes issue when their work is retold as God’s. African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z This isn’t just a captivating retelling; it’s a creative reanimation of these indelible characters who are still breathing down our necks across the millennia. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Below is a retelling of Angela’s experiences getting vaccinated and her first days afterward. One nurse’s diary of life after the vaccine: A glimpse of post-pandemic normalcy 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z I realized when I retold it to people just how great it was. The Carpetbagger: The Director's Big Challenge: Not Ruining a Cinderella Story 2013-01-31T15:00:40Z The retelling of his first foray into drug dealing is indelible. ‘Survival Math’ Opens Some Personal Wounds but Leaves Others Hidden 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z No retelling of the Benghazi story, or any aspect of it, can be either of those things. Michael Bay’s “apolitical” Benghazi movie: Every kind of American delusion and stupidity in one package! 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z You draw some extremely interesting parallels where it's a retelling of the story, except that the wife lives, and she's actually setting the husband up to be framed for her murder. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The morning of Saturday, April 17, 1915, the Boston Post published the final installment of a six-part series about the Lincoln assassination, a retelling that served to honor the slain president and his presidency. “Race riot in the South End”: The movie that reignited the Civil War 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z The originality of the series — a sort of retelling of the near future — is to apply a historical methodology and then to put the imagination into action. What if Marine Le Pen won? These graphic novels decode a possible far-right future 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Each version of the story, despite the elements of sex and violence, is a light cartoon, and the retelling makes the subsequent one lighter — though scarcely funny. Dance Review: Enigmatic Choreographer Tells an Enigmatic Tale 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z A beautiful contemporary retelling of “Antigone,” Shamsie’s novel follows three Pakistani siblings living in London, whose lives are all affected when brother Parvaiz suddenly decides to join an ISIS-like terrorist group. Best books of 2017: The best fiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z “Take a movie like ‘West Side Story,’ which is a retelling of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’” she said. TV revivals and inclusive casting: An opportunity that can’t just be skin-deep 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Brodman would later say in astonishment when she heard the retelling. The Lawyer of His Dreams 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z I duly intended to turn up my nose at “Eligible,” Curtis Sittenfeld’s retelling of “Pride and Prejudice,” set in Cincinnati. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z And retell it he and his actors definitely did. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z When you had a bunch of liberals depicting Sarah Palin as a dunce and McCain as out-of-touch, it was hard for a lot of conservatives to take it as an accurate retelling of the facts. Cast the Trump Mini-Series: Who Should Play the Donald? 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z "Maleficent," a retelling of the "Sleeping Beauty" story from the villain's perspective, is Jolie's first on-screen effort in four years, if you don't count her voice work in "Kung-Fu Panda 2." Angelina Jolie admits her 'rare position' as a rich and famous mom 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z There’s a map of the Arctic Circle, a brief retelling of Ovid’s Prometheus myth, a chronology of events in the novel, notes on revisions between older and newer versions, and even explanations of typographical errors. Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ comes fully alive in this new edition 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Set in a top-secret lab in Los Alamos, "Manhattan" is a fictionalized retelling of the U.S. race to build the atomic bomb during World War II. Premiere of WGN America's 'Manhattan' draws in 1.8 million viewers 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Beasts of the Southern Wild – as retold by the US government When a hurricane breaches the levee outside New Orleans, everyone wades in to help with the rescue effort. Alter Argo: Iranian film to tell other side of hostage crisis 2013-01-11T17:37:56Z Like trying to retell a dream, recounting a beautiful sunset is a futile enterprise. The World's Most Beautiful Sunsets 2010-06-18T19:00:00Z ABC is the latest network to dabble in religious projects with "Of Kings and Prophets," a retelling of the story of David and King Saul that's scheduled for 10 p.m. ABC leans toward stability in new programming schedule 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s carrying on of a family tradition, a retelling of history and my childhood through this historical event.” Field Notes: The Royal Wedding : Tossing the Royal Bouquet, One Generation to the Next 2011-04-22T19:35:15Z A bold retelling of Sophocles’ “Antigone” that follows the lives of three British siblings of Pakistani descent. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z She is testing it in her first musical, the theatrically frisky and musically daring “Hadestown,” a version of the Orpheus myth retold in the American vernacular, which just opened at New York Theater Workshop. Anaïs Mitchell Hopes to Change the World With Her First Musical 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Another newcomer "Beastly," which is a modern, retelling of the classic tale "Beauty and the Beast," took hold of No. 3 with $10.1 million. "Rango" tops another sluggish weekend for movies 2011-03-07T03:05:04Z Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte” is a retelling of “Don Quixote,” reworked so that its main character is a traveling salesman who drives across America. Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie on Booker Prize Shortlist 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z A show with this devoted a fan base owes viewers more than a retelling of its own story. The Trouble With The Bachelorette 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Among a range of offerings, then, it’s probably fine to offer yet another show devoted to Impressionism, as long as it does something other than retell the same hero-worshipping story. Seattle Art Museum has a new Monet exhibition. Is it needed? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The production team has pushed back, saying the show was meant all along to be a tribute and was never intended to be a critical retelling of history. Singapore’s History Put to Song 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Mrs. Patmore's thwarted romance was a little too much like Mrs. Hughes' in Season 1 -- the ending, at least, was the same -- and poor Edith is becoming a sad story too often retold. Last word on 'Downton Abbey,' Season 3 2013-02-19T18:03:47Z Do you think that Tangled is a straightforward, retelling of the brothers Grimm's version of Rapunzel? Tangled: ironically ever after 2011-01-14T15:00:18Z Fresh lives of figures such as Bobby Charlton, Malcolm Allison and several 1970s Welsh rugby heroes have shown that if the name is big enough, publishers will think their stories worth retelling. Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend by Catrine Clay 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z “We would not be talking about the Ouija Board today had it not been for the brilliant marketing of William Fuld. He just knew how to change the story, retell it,” Murch said. The Ouija board's mysterious origins: war, spirits, and a strange death 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z With each retelling, the fabric is woven slightly differently. The Age of Monologues 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z So I wasn't even sure I wanted to bother with Sam Taylor-Wood's "Nowhere Boy," a retelling of Lennon's late teen years in Liverpool, just before the creation of the Beatles. "Nowhere Boy": John Lennon, before the Beatles 2010-10-08T11:01:00Z The Beatles' story has been told and retold so many times and it would be easy to write off Love Me Do as a stale tale, a simplistic stepping stone to future glory. Love Me Do: the Beatles' first hit is 50 2012-10-05T06:00:00Z The company released "Much Ado About Nothing," a retelling of the Shakespearean comedy, in 2012. 'Avengers' director Joss Whedon releases new film online 2014-04-21T22:14:30Z Other dramas for the forthcoming season include Sleepy Hollow, which will retell Washington Irving's classic 19th-century tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Fox orders US Gavin and Stacey 2013-05-09T11:27:22Z According to an interview he gave to Esquire magazine, it could well be a big-screen retelling of the story of Moses. Close up: What's next for Ridley Scott? 2012-06-07T16:45:00Z The Architects, a contemporary retelling of the Minotaur myth, will play in a former biscuit factory in Bermondsey from 27 November. Shunt to create labyrinth in London warehouse 2012-08-14T12:19:08Z Her book follows “the men” — often unnamed and undifferentiated; in doing so, this spare retelling revels in the monotony of 16th-century exploration. ‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z But Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop retelling of the nation’s founding turned out to be one of several shows making for a strikingly diverse, unusually urgent season. ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Dec. 22 on NBC: An animated retelling of the holiday tale. A Santa bagful of holiday-TV specials 2012-11-23T21:32:26Z But the beauty of the story, so ebulliently retold here, is that Emma gets to learn that. "Emma." is the candy-coated "Clueless" remake we deserve 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Literary film fans with long memories may recall him as Josh in "Clueless," the 1995 retelling of Jane Austen's "Emma" set in Beverly Hills. Paul Rudd to star in 'Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving' film 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Film and TV audiences haven't clamored for a retelling of the Knights of the Round Table tales since 1981's "Excalibur" became a cult hit. Even a magical sword can't help "Cursed," a retelling of the Arthurian legend that needs honing 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Rice is clinical in her retelling of the foreign policy decisions of the Clinton and Obama administrations. Susan Rice Recounts Making Policy at the Highest Levels 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The musical retells the end of Oedipus’ tragic life through the music of the Pentecostal church. Public Theater Is to Stage ‘The Gospel at Colonus’ in September 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z They would see it as a "gift", not an arbitrary retelling of history, but one that helps us to develop truthfully. The Book of Genesis, part 8: Why this story? 2011-01-31T10:00:00Z Or so Madeline Miller tells it in "The Song of Achilles," a novel that skillfully retells and embellishes Homer's tale of the Trojan War, "The Iliad." 'Song of Achilles': The love story behind Homer's epic tale of war 2012-04-25T20:12:07Z Two years of retelling the story of her son Jeff’s death – to anyone who will listen, and to some who “don’t want to but need to” – and she still cries. Love couldn't break heroin's grip as sons became casualties of epidemic 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z In My Life: A Musical Theatre Tribute to the Beatles The story of the Fab Four is retold in this show featuring tribute band Abbey Road. L.A. theater openings, March 13-20: 'Once' and more 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Historical events here in 1757 were retold in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." US history museums struggle to update exhibits 2011-11-06T21:46:04Z In this retelling, the Massacre of the Innocents is not just a foreordained step on the way to glory but an indelible horror that contaminates Jesus and his family forever. Mary Rakow’s ‘This is Why I Came’ asks us to reimagine biblical tales 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z “No one really slept . . . because they were all deliriously happy to be away from wives and offices,” eager to retell tales of court cases involving “castration by pocketknife” and similar horrors. ‘A Friend of Mr. Lincoln’ review: The burning ambition of a future president 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z His previous novel, “Nutshell,” was a modern-day retelling of “Hamlet” from the point of view of an indecisive fetus. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Unlike Mozart’s original, in which Titus survives, the emperor in this retelling spends the second half of the opera in a hospital bed, profoundly coming to terms with betrayal and mortality. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z It is time for more “pokes” / which are poems retelling old jokes. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The Shakespearean sonnet about the rabbi 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Running more than two hours, the documentary is a relatively full retelling of Mr. Assange’s story. ‘We Steal Secrets’ Is First of WikiLeaks Films 2012-12-19T23:14:47Z Geena Davis stars in this fictionalized retelling of the inaugural season of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, with all the heartbreak and good cheer of a classic sports movie. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Please Like Me’ and Films Leaving Netflix 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z “These are not unfamiliar tales to students of Lincoln, but Avlon makes the retelling affecting and powerful.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But I think that the idea of centralizing him, and the sort of retelling of what people saw, I think there's definitely two intentions at play. Terence Nance on “Random Acts of Flyness”: How HBO’s most daring show gets made 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In Denmark, the most obvious manifestation of the culture preceding the policy is at the Workers’ Museum, five stories of exhibits retelling over a century of Danish labor history. Social democracy and the dignity of work: The U.S. must learn from Scandinavian “utopias” for Bernie’s revolution to move forward 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The roster of ancient heroes is filled with male names, but not in this inspired retelling of the history of Hanukkah. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Directed by Yang Yuntao with an extensive creative team, the show is billed as “an inspiring retelling” of the ancient folk tale about a humble and heroic peasant girl. Dance Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z It is a comprehensive retelling of Manson’s story, and absorbing from the start. Charles Manson: what made him a criminal? - podcasts of the week 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Its story needs to be retold, in a different way for a different age. Abroad: Auschwitz Shifts From Memorializing to Teaching 2011-02-18T21:35:20Z Whatever the detergent bill, it’s worth it for this vibrant downtown retelling of these dark Greek legends, performed by the Flea Theater’s resident acting company, the Bats. Theater Review: Adapting Sophocles: ?These Seven Sicknesses? at Flea Theater 2012-02-04T00:26:35Z “Automaton,” a series featured previously on Photo Booth, is a retelling of a story from his childhood, set in Nazi-occupied Italy. Paolo Ventura’s Short Stories 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Sometimes, Yun has a narrative tic of retelling what is already known from the details. Review | ‘O Beautiful’ is an intricate tale of identity and belonging in a divided America 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z I know that because I hear from you, grumpily, every time I publish “pokes,” which are old jokes retold as poems. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Relax, these aren’t old jokes retold as poems 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Addressing the audience before the show and briefly during the pauses, he often held in his hand a worn-looking copy of the book he intended to “retell” onstage. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z Mr. Nicola said that the show, which is scheduled to open late this year, would not retell the story of the book and film, but would feature some of the same characters. Musical? Play? All That's Sure Is David Bowie Is Involved 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z This modern retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus — who travels to hell to retrieve his beloved Eurydice — seemed too much like agitprop in 2019. Review | ‘Hadestown’ ushers Broadway back to the Kennedy Center in style 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Whether quarreling about Eddie’s alleged affair with a rich woman called the Countess or retelling stories of their youth, they exude an energy that both feeds and devours them. Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell Star in ‘Fool for Love’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Kirino's retelling is a taut, disturbing and timeless tale, filled with rage and pathos for the battles that women have to fight every day, battles which have, apparently, existed from the moment of creation. The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino – review 2013-02-27T12:28:01Z But “Deacon King Kong” is not simply a retelling of an ancient epic. Review | James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ offers a rollicking examination of a Brooklyn community 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z A: I think there is something pleasurable about the retelling of material that one knows. Philippa Gregory's how-to on writing about the Tudors 2011-12-29T21:08:06Z Beauty and the Beast was billed as a great feminist retelling of a fundamentally regressive fairytale. Beauty and the Beast: feminist or fraud? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z It is unique: a mundane and gloomily worthy Victorian novel called A Human Document, recreated, reinvented and retold, page by page, into the adventures of a man named Toge. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z The project is part of an international publishing initiative that aims to retell the Bard's plays for a modern-day audience. Crime king Jo Nesboe's tale of revenge has echoes of his own father 2014-04-10T09:28:43Z When Mr. Ghomeshi recalls that interview, his breathing becomes a little ragged, and he speaks more quickly, as if retelling the details of a trauma: dying, on live radio. Jian Ghomeshi Brings His Show, ‘Q,’ to New York 2012-07-20T17:10:39Z Phaeton,” a retelling of the Greek myth by Michael Milligan, opens April 29, with Kyd directing, longtime local dance instructor Kelly King providing choreography, and Gilbert starring as Phile. Riot Grrrls says no to all-female ‘Taming of the Shrew’ 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Sort of "The Princess Bride" as retold in colorful sailor's vernacular. Review: 'Your Highness' drowns in lowbrow humor 2011-04-06T19:07:08Z Here, they guide us through vignettes that retell Walker’s family history — and by extension, the history of America — in the hopes of reclaiming the joys of blackness in all its complexity. Review: In ‘Skinfolk,’ the Joys of Blackness Burst From the Earth 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Zagar, in retelling the story, examines the ramifications of the cameras, books and movies generated by the case, but just when it seems the film is getting at something, it backs off. ‘Captivated’ Revisits the Pamela Smart Case 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z This gap apparently also applies to prophesy, as we see at the episode’s end: one last explicit tie to “Game of Thrones,” which was a broad-stroke retelling of “Game of Thrones.” ‘House of the Dragon’ Premiere: Another Game of Thrones 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Kubrick sets up the heist by telling the story from one robber's perspective before retelling it from another robber's point of view and so on. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Her descriptions of the places she goes and the people she meets are solid enough for campfire retelling. Review: Friedman's travelogue treads no new ground 2011-04-06T20:35:14Z If you’re not in the mood to see a beloved story retold, “Fargo”’s first season is a maddening set of episodes before it even airs. “Fargo” recap: Season two is already so much better than season one 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Lately, she's turned even more perverse by retelling children's fables with — no, no nudity — just an impishly clinical humor. Toronto Film Festival: 10 Films to Talk About 2010-09-19T13:55:00Z This fierce modern retelling of “Beowulf,” filled with contemporary versions of the ancient epic’s monsters and heroes, pits a traumatized former soldier and her unusual son against the grasping denizens of an upscale gated community. New in Paperback: ‘Life in the Garden,’ ‘The Mere Wife’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces helped persuade film-makers like George Lucas that their job consisted of retelling mythic stories. Why we are happy to be caught in a web of movie remakes 2012-07-10T08:48:56Z She began to weep as she retold the story. Why Won’t We Learn from the Survivors of the Rana Plaza Disaster? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Using a pair of VeggieTales toys to give an error-filled retelling of the story of Passover, Ms. McCarthy started to say, “Not even Hitler — ” A Bannon-Kushner Showdown and Spicer as the Easter Bunny on ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Asked if his retelling of the Sacramento story was accurate, Mr. Williams replied through a grin: “It’s a totally true story. And I’ve got the videotape to prove it.” Katt Williams Aims to Transcend His Fraught History 2014-01-19T22:23:43Z “Do you want the long answer or the short?” is the customary divide between explanations versus outcomes in the retelling of events. ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ by Elena Ferrante 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Lewis was on the program to promote his graphic novel series, "March," which retells of the civil rights movement from Lewis's perspective. Congressman John Lewis crowd surfs after Colbert interview 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Theater executives described the new play as a three-act retelling of the Stoker novel, set in Transylvania and England. ArtsBeat: Playwright, Producer Will Stretch in Premiere at Dallas Theater Center 2012-03-28T22:45:49Z Androcles and the Lion Parson's Nose opens its season with George Bernard Shaw's retelling of the classic fable; for ages 12 and up. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 25-Nov. 1: Astrid Hadad and more 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z “It’s a faithful retelling of the classic story, right down to the spaghetti-sharing scene,” Strauss said. Remember Family Films? Disney Plus Is Making ’Em Like They Used To 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Each walk closes with a retelling of a classic fairytale, often from an oblique angle. Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland – review 2012-10-27T23:25:11Z Today, we return to “pokes,” jokes retold as poems. Perspective | The one about the photon and the innkeeper — and other jokes retold as poems 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Jen told and retold the story of our wedding, while I spent nearly an hour with a local contractor discussing the finer points of barbecuing, our shared national obsession. In Australia, Driving the Great Ocean Road 2011-04-08T19:24:55Z Over and over again he rewrote episodes rather than retelling the story ... Jesuit priest accuses Philip Pullman of waging war on Christianity 2010-08-12T14:18:00Z “We That Are Young,” a hectic new novel by Preti Taneja, a retelling of King Lear set in present-day India, was published last year in Britain to much acclaim. A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Every time it’s retold, it gathers into itself all annotations and variations on itself, which become part of it — it’s “an infinitely recursive epic that subtends and engulfs everything about it.” Grab Life By The Sugar Frosted Nutsack 2012-04-11T16:53:05Z A retelling of a classic western through the eyes of a female character: “Gunsmoke” as told by Miss Kitty, perhaps? An Unapologetically Feminist Western Novel 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But the book does offer a story that, though often told before, is worth the spirited retelling Knowlton brings to it. Built on Sand: The Get-Rich-Quick Scams of 1920s Florida 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z And for her first pick, she has chosen “Wild,” by Cheryl Strayed, a nonfiction retelling of the author’s epic hike of the Pacific Crest Trail that was published in March by Knopf. Media Decoder Blog: The Return of Oprah's Book Club 2012-06-01T22:03:03Z “The Lonely War” begins by retelling a lesson from Ms. Fathi’s mother, imparted on the first day of third grade. Nazila Fathi’s ‘The Lonely War’ Is a Memoir of Iran 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Q: What did you like about this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty"? A Minute With: Elle Fanning on the spell of 'Maleficent' 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z And in his retelling of his childhood ignorance, he invokes, and repeats, a homophobic slur several times. Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Icon 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z In the theater, telling and retelling the same tales is part of the culture. Women’s Voices Festival a Potent Reminder of Who Goes Unheard Onstage 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Fairy tales are clothing, and to retell them is fashion. Sublime New Fantasy Fiction 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Just about every retelling of what it’s like to experience the New York City subway proves that while there’s a lot to see — stations bustle with constant activity — there really isn’t much to say. Dance Review: ‘A Single Ride,’ by Ephrat Asherie, at Dixon Place 2012-09-25T21:33:45Z But this year, either by coincidence or by through the inscrutable workings of the spirit of the times, the story is being retold not once, but twice, both times with impressive clarity and seriousness. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z July 2, “David & Jonathan, a “modern-day retelling of the biblical story” set in a contemporary black church. Land of the free: No-cost activities in and around Seattle 2013-06-26T22:29:21Z The fear we felt in answer to a perceived threat was real, so that threat becomes, in retelling, more frightening. Brian Williams: Personal branding got in the way of the news 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z It's a useful device that helps fill in the gaps in this episodic retelling of the story. New roles for Racette and Meade at DC Opera 2013-03-18T16:33:09Z This film retells the story of a meeting of diverse cultures and odd alliances in the jungles of Borneo. BBC Election 70 2010-10-09T05:45:00Z There are no literary precedents to these stories – this isn’t a case of a classic being retold again and again. Big man, small kid: why the bodybuilding babysitter is a recipe for movie success 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z This Week’s Movies: July 13 In today's edition of "This Week's Movies," our critics offer their takes on an animated franchice, a period film and a retelling of a classic novel. ArtsBeat: Video Reviews of 'Ice Age: Continental Drift,' 'Trishna' and 'Farewell, My Queen' 2012-07-13T15:16:44Z Ms. Atwood is offering the possibility of either appearing in the novel she is currently writing, or in her retelling of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” to be published in a Vintage Books series in 2016. Authors Auction Off Novelistic Naming Rights 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Angelou said that transparency about her life and work connected her to a long African-American tradition of preserving and retelling personal history. Schomburg Center Acquires Maya Angelou Archive 2010-10-26T20:15:00Z His last large-scale work, "The Gospel According to the Other Mary," is a retelling of the last days of Jesus from the point of view of the women present. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z How Mr. Moran, once anointed as an operatic trailblazer, came to his present idiom is a story often retold. Music Review: Collaboration at 72 Beats Per Minute 2011-06-26T21:54:06Z This philosophy is at the heart of how de Wilde approached retelling "Emma" in a slapstick, yet ultimately humane fashion. "Emma." finds its hilarious humanity through the body's betrayals 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z By retelling his life story with such flamboyance, Rudnick not only claims a piece of gay history but also makes narrative sense. Valhalla! 2010-07-12T20:31:00Z “These women are retelling the past,” she said, “but producing the memory to be in the present, and to design the future.” Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z As retold here, the director arranged for the cast, during a blackout, to be replaced by wax statues. Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The improvised ritual is a retelling that also grasps at a redeemed future, and its impulse echoes in the novels of Miano, Moore and Makumbi. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z True to his creative genius, Welles capitalized on this moment by retelling the tale as an unfolding newscast that exuded the you-are-there authenticity of, say, the Hindenburg disaster. The Real Legacy of Orson Welles’ ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast 2013-10-31T09:45:05Z A modern retelling of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” The 20 novels we can’t wait to read in 2016. And this list only gets us to June. 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The juxtaposition of music and politics — the retelling of a familiar story from the civil rights era in a slightly new key — sheds light on both the music and the movement. Review: In ‘Two Trains Runnin’,’ the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z This is why they told it to McCann and others, in a scene detailed in Chapter 1,001; it’s why they travel the world together, retelling it every day. Colum McCann Gives Voice to Grieving Fathers, One Israeli and One Palestinian 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z In her retelling of Greek mythology, Hades is portrayed in song as a greedy “king of oil and coal” who fuels his industrialized hell of an underworld with the “fossils of the dead.” Amid Climate Talks, an Actor’s Call to Action Unfolds Onstage 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z By comparison, Fox’s “Son of God,” a retelling of the life of Jesus, grossed about $59.7 million in the U.S. and Canada. 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' tops box office with $24.5-million debut 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z There are women as well, and it’s less a ballet than a modern-dance retelling of one. Dance Review: Prince?s Fate, Entwined With Desire 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z The unraveling of the crime, apprehension of the killers, and the dramatic trial is retold in Steven Levingston’s “Little Demon in the City of Light.” ‘Little Demon in the City of Light’: a hypnotic murder 2014-03-26T19:48:46Z The eerie retelling runs at the theater starting in late September. Performance Guide for Autumn 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z What has retelling her story on the show been like, at this time of increased criticism of how police departments have harmed or ignored survivors? HBO's "Catch and Kill" series shows how Weinstein is "a villain of the most extraordinary degree" 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z During this past decade, he has been preoccupied with legendary tales retold using motion-capture animation – The Polar Express, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol. Flight – review 2013-02-03T00:07:01Z The Silver Lion, the penultimate prize, went to Mr. Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy,” a retelling of the anti-Semitic persecution of the French army officer Alfred Dreyfus. ‘Joker’ Takes Home Top Prize at Venice Film Festival 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z And telling and retelling stories, however we want to, is bigger even than a giant like Amazon. Amazon to sell fan fiction 2013-05-23T08:44:57Z During the game, a picture of the two was displayed on the Jumbotron as an announcer retold the story of the soldier saving Williams. Brian Williams Recants Story About Being Shot Down in Iraq 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z “Killing County” is a convincing but boilerplate retelling of the problems in Bakersfield. In the Country of True Crime 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Common released in November his eleventh album, "Black America Again," which he hopes will spark a retelling of the black American experience and a past that includes lynchings, discrimination and other injustices. U.S. rapper Common on teaming up with '13TH' director 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Perhaps most significantly, in McEwan’s retelling, Alan Turing didn’t commit suicide after the British government convicted him of gross indecency. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z He’s much more animated in retelling what happens after an image is pasted up and people start congregating and talking. JR’s Street Gallery Comes Indoors 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, April 29: Our contest to retell a bit of literature as someone else would have written it. Style Invitational Week 1329: Shakespeare + Thee: A tailgater contest 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z In the "Spiritual Exercises," his manual for prayer guides, Ignatius suggests a five-step daily process, known as the "Examen," as a way to tell and retell life-transforming stories. Ready to try an old approach to a New Year’s resolution? Saint Ignatius may provide some guidance 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z He often retells the history he experienced in the movement — the dates, places and personalities are part of his lived history. Rep. John Lewis on ‘Selma’ and the memories it brings to life 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z It’s kind of painful to retell what happened next. Gene Weingarten: the Opie-Changey thing 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z One way to do this is to go to great lengths to make it seem like you are telling both sides of the story, even though your retelling of events is heavily slanted. This is not about political correctness or Internet outrage. It’s about where we draw the line 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z His story is well-known, but it doesn't suffer any in the retelling. A story of Hannibal offers a lesson to the modern world 2010-07-06T13:13:00Z Indeed, in many ways, "The Casual Vacancy" is a contemporary retelling of that American classic, "It's a Wonderful Life." Provocative 'The Casual Vacancy' no ordinary jaunt to countryside 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The retelling made the women’s past traumas vivid and immediate again: gunfire; military raids; a pregnant neighbor who ran for her life — and never made it. In the Search for Latin America’s Disappeared, Memories and Evidence Entwine 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z It is a history that bears retelling amid far-right responses to the pandemic and the global rise of anti-government, populist movements. The Thorny History of the Salzburg Festival’s Logo 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z This is the most imaginative retelling of “Jack and the Beanstalk” I’ve ever read. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “It’s not just retelling the same story. It’s retelling a similar story but in a much more complicated world.” Savage’s ‘World’ comes full circle with spinoff 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z For centuries since, Jews fulfill the biblical commandment to remember and retell the story of the Exodus with a special ceremony, the Seder. Why we need eggs at Passover 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z He was funny in the conventional sense, learning jokes from books, then retelling them. ‘Kadian Journal’: A father tries to survive the loss of his son, 14 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The rock/pop retelling of the Gospel According to Saint Matthew, with songs by Stephen Schwartz of “Wicked” and “Pippin” fame, remains genially critic-proof decades after its 1970s debut. ‘Godspell’ maintains its spirit, energy at Olney Theatre Center 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z To dodge homophobic epithets, which were more about being girlie than gay, we would retell dirty jokes we didn’t understand, disparage girls we liked and feign more interest in sports than we felt. My Struggle to Write Honestly About a Test of Manhood 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z They made their debut in 1993 with the romp “Peer Gynt” and the pocket opera “Let’s Get This Show on the Road, ” a retelling of the biblical creation story. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Now, the Battle of Castle Black is retold as "Game of Thrones" steps into the spotlight. Phil Morris narrates Ken Burns-style 'Game of Thrones' Castle Black battle retelling 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps only if a beloved grandfather retells, in his own words, “The Three Bears” or “The Fisherman and His Wife” or “Baba Yaga.” Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z It retells canonical stories from new points of view — the reverse-angle instant replay. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z The stories they offer — of a young woman battling sexism in the world of e-sports or a romance-focused retelling of Greek myth — are mostly free and scroll vertically on smartphones, where readers under 25 live. Comics That Read Top to Bottom Are Bringing in New Readers 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z “It’s our responsibility to retell that story, because there’s a generational gap; there are young people getting into these records now, but only so many people who were actually there.” Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z War stories get more polished in the retelling, and the temptation to self-aggrandize is all the greater, and easier, for people who are puffed up by the television lens and the cult of celebrity. Brian Williams’s War Story 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z In retelling the past with new enemies and different aspects, you need to feel the game is not merely a retread of something already seen. Game On: 'Little Big Planet 2' a strong sequel 2011-01-18T19:52:04Z It was the story of loaves and fishes, retold with macaroni and cheese. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z In fact, Martel’s book gives the distinct sense that it’s precisely the telling and retelling of the story with the animals that may have reinforced Pi’s trauma. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z The season’s first show will be MacArthur fellow Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Everybody,” a retelling of the Christian morality play “Everyman,” which was written by an unknown author. Shakespeare Theatre’s new head announces his first season, from ‘Much Ado’ to a James Baldwin play 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Jo Brand is the next passenger, getting to retell the story of how she once flunked an audition to play herself. Tonight's TV highlights: NCIS 2011-01-05T00:05:01Z It ends with the Foy being retold her original message, but we reckon it probably changed along the way to be honest. New music: WALL – Shoestring 2013-04-04T16:31:00Z But the particular retelling I’m thinking of is a play by Tina Satter called “Ancient Lives,” which opened on Saturday at the Kitchen. Tina Satter’s ‘Ancient Lives’ Is at the Kitchen 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The story of Galileo’s persecution is so well-known that I’d hesitate to retell it yet again, if it weren’t for the fact that church apologists like Jay Wesley Richards are still defending and soft-pedaling it. Cosmic terror: Why Neil deGrasse Tyson has religious fundamentalists so freaked 2014-03-27T11:50:00Z "Citizen" opens with a long and punishing list of "micro-aggressions," written in second person, in which Rankine says she’s retelling the stories she’s collected about racism experienced by friends and colleagues. Festival of Books: Why Claudia Rankine's book on racism has no ending 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The goal is to retell the story of the captain of the trading vessel Maersk Alabama who, in order to save his crew, surrendered to Somali pirates after his ship was hijacked. Tom Hanks to star in Somali pirate story 2011-03-16T00:14:38Z He begins with a searing and sometimes stomach-turning retelling of the most famous siege of all: the destruction of Jewish Jerusalem in A.D. 'Jerusalem': An unholy history of a holy city 2011-12-22T00:52:03Z Humanity is even worse off in Benjamin Percy’s forthcoming novel, “The Dead Lands,” a retelling of the Lewis and Clark story set in a futuristic America that’s been destroyed by a super-flu and nuclear fallout. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z And it is precisely the prospect of retelling these stories through the prism of modern preoccupation that acts as catnip to novelists. Why the tale of Achilles and his lover still has the power to move us 2012-06-02T23:06:04Z That is the cry, now often heard, as history is retold. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z BBC Four’s The Yorkshire Ripper Files, instead of retelling the story of the man who bashed in his victim’s heads, focused on the systemic misogyny that infected the police investigation and the press coverage. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, why are dead women’s bodies still being used as entertainment? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z AA counselled its members to stay vigilant about their vulnerability and to keep it firmly in mind by reciting metaphors, chanting slogans, and telling and retelling personal tales of failure and of success. Addiction is not a disease: How AA and 12-step programs erect barriers while attempting to relieve suffering 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z For “Weightless,” a smart retelling of it as an indie-rock opera by the Bay Area band the Kilbanes, that love is the core of the legend. Review: ‘Weightless’ Finds Lovely Moments in a Grim Greek Myth 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z His 2003 two-CD retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” teemed with monologues, musical fragments and a handful of actual songs. Album review: Lou Reed and Metallica, 'Lulu' 2011-10-28T05:34:00Z Prince went on to confirm that the incident was indeed based on a true story and said that he was a huge fan of the retelling. Revisit the Iconic Chappelle's Show Sketch That Inspired a Prince Song 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Maggie Nelson’s recently reissued “The Red Parts” retells the trial of her aunt’s murderer, focusing on questions of doubt and certainty in the criminal justice system, particularly decades after the crime. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z This summer, after Little, Brown and Company announced Ms. Meyer’s new novel, some “Twi-hards” lashed out, complaining that she should focus on finishing “Midnight Sun,” her stalled retelling of “Twilight” from the vampire Edward’s perspective. Sorry, ‘Twilight’ Fans, Stephenie Meyer’s Latest Is a Twisted Spy Thriller 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z But there was one that he recited many times, never concealing his pride in the retelling. Don Cornelius, Host of ?Soul Train,? and His Muted Legacy 2012-03-09T23:44:45Z These are challenging traditional bestsellers – classics, self-help and business "how to" books – and newer stars of Indian publishing whose works retell stories often drawn from the everyday experiences of middle-class Indian youth in simple language. Record advance 2013-03-04T19:00:52Z Until Christina came into our lives, these joys, sorrows, milestones of development and amusing anecdotes were all mine to retell, quietly savour or even forget. Now we are three: me, my daughter and my new fiancee 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z Monk retells this great 20th-century tragedy magnificently, in measured English prose, not Time journalese. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z To retell the story, the guys are diving into this fantasy that they all went through from start to finish. “American Animals” could change how we tell true crime stories 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Wu was completely at home in his retelling of Shanghai Lily, from the 1932 von Sternberg movie. Fashion Review: Jason Wu, Peter Som, Richard Chai, Kimberly Ovitz - Review 2012-02-11T00:19:47Z In the title story — a retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” — Beauty encounters the following inscription in the library that’s ostensibly hers: Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel: What’s New in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “Detroit,” a harrowing retelling of the riots that engulfed that city in 1967, with a focus on the killing of black teenagers by the police, was not Hollywood’s most expensive new offering. ‘Detroit’ Suffers Box-Office Setback as ‘Dark Tower’ Is No. 1 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z It took a year and a half to find the perfect location for the retelling of the tales, underneath Shoreditch Town Hall in London. VIDEO: Grimm tales in a London basement 2014-03-22T00:24:09Z A "real" retelling will usually include more stumbles, more hesitations, maybe more pauses. Should radio drama be more realistic? 2011-07-28T10:51:37Z "The White Snake": Chicago theater auteur Mary Zimmerman's enchanted retelling of a Chinese legend has ended its hit run at OSF, but merits comment. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z In the filmmakers’ retelling, the two teams worked closely on the production, sharing notes and viewing each cut of the film. Pressured by Simmons Over Exposé, Oprah Winfrey Faced a Big Decision 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z I can revisit his stories about his family, told and retold with increasing hyperbole, set in the little tenement where he grew up on the Lower East Side in poverty. Thanksgiving, my father's last supper 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z “American Bandit: The Birth of Southern Cool” will retell the story of how Mr. Reynolds did what Hollywood said couldn’t be done with “Smokey and the Bandit.” Burt Reynolds and Johnny Cash Highlight CMT Documentary Lineup 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z His brand of mythic realism lent an irresistible luster to “The Four Wise Men,” a retelling of the biblical tale of the Three Magi. Michel Tournier, French Novelist Who Fused Myth and Philosophy, Dies at 91 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Her diary, she realized, was profoundly shaped by trauma — less a record of events than a story she could tell and retell later, to reassure her parents and herself. An Infamous Hijacking, Revisited Through a Child’s Eyes 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z In the Summer of His Years also concerns the death of JFK, but is both a lament and a poetic retelling. Readers recommend songs about assassination: The results 2010-08-26T22:30:00Z The proceedings are not nearly as compelling in the messy second part, when the show moves into the retelling of the film. Review: ‘jazz singer’ Looks to Complicate a Film’s Fraught History 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The musical “Hamilton” unapologetically draws a line from that sentiment to its retelling through rap and hip-hop. ‘Hamilton’ choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler delivers a revolution that rocks 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The work is an unconventional retelling of some of Ovid’s tales of transformation, but there’s no need to dig out your old textbooks. | 'Pants on Fire?s Metamorphoses': Changing Sexes, Species and More 2011-01-09T23:08:30Z Faded 1990s headlines continue to feed the beast of peak TV, stirred up a couple of years ago by FX’s fine retelling of O.J. Review | Who killed Tupac and B.I.G.? Another ’90s crime gets the cable series treatment. 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The legend of Achilles retold through the lens of his friend Patroclus. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z There my girls go singing nonsense songs off YouTube, chattering away about who has a crush on whom and, perhaps most irksome of all, eagerly retelling me the plots of their favorite television shows. Mommy has anger issues! My daughters are pre-adolescent, I’m pre-menopausal 2014-05-10T23:00:00Z This engaging retelling makes Shakespeare look so easy to stage, and so applicable to our times. Richard II ? review 2011-02-22T18:20:29Z And if so, how much time must separate the event from its retelling? The Story Behind Patriots Day and the Politics of "Too Soon" 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Pullman retells the gospels with Jesus and Christ as brothers and two distinct characters. The Book Show 2010-04-07T23:05:00Z He was also a fan of the late British playwright Sarah Kane: her Phaedra’s Love, classical myth retold in unvarnished modern language, was something he drew on for the tone of The Favourite. Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Lobster, on his wild, star-studded life of Queen Anne 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Taylor retells numerous stories of the women’s boldness and aplomb. Review | A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z But as Mr. Harkonnen grows conflicted about his child’s participation in the program, Trish begins to have doubts herself about the safety of sleep donation and her own motives in telling and retelling Dori’s story. Books of The Times: Karen Russell’s ‘Sleep Donation’ 2014-04-02T20:29:11Z There’s a growing scientific consensus that we change a memory in every retelling, omitting and adding details until the original experience is significantly transformed. After months in lockdown, we need some new memories. But can you ‘make’ them? 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Despite all this, Rushdie’s memoir is a very calm, sane retelling of a series of insane events, written in a very writerly third person. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z Audiences expecting a solemn retelling of the classic Rapunzel tale will be disappointed. Film: Disney Ties Lots of Hopes to Lots of Hair 2010-11-20T19:13:00Z Eurydice is the heart of this retelling of the classic myth, which premiered at Los Angeles Opera in early 2020. ‘I Savor Everything’: A Soprano’s Star Turn at the Met Opera 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z And in Hesse’s retelling, it’s hard not to view the Virginia Eastern Shore as a paradise in distress. An Arsonist and His Femme Fatale Partner Fuel ‘American Fire’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Still, as with many biographical documentaries made in cooperation with famous people, the narrative is primarily filtered through the subject’s recollection and retelling. 'Who is the real person?': inside a revealing docuseries on Hillary Clinton 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z In this modern retelling of the Persephone myth, Nikki wakes up after 100 years of being cuddled against her Everliving, Cole - and he's sucked her dry. Lenore Appelhans's top 10 books featuring flashbacks 2013-01-17T12:35:11Z In her plain-spoken retelling of the commonplace human experience of illness and loss, Coutts achieves something truly extraordinary — she's created one of the most haunting and achingly honest explorations of grief in recent memory. In 'The Iceberg,' Marion Coutts recounts the death of her husband and achieves something extraordinary 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Alastair Stewart ran the first debate like Samuel Beckett's Play, in which three figures in urns are forced eternally to tell and retell their stories to a brutal inquisitor. Stage-managed? Theatre and the leaders' debate 2010-04-29T14:36:00Z Among the gags retold by the one-time player of pop were identifiable jokes written by a number of contemporary standup stars, including Milton Jones, Lee Mack and Jimmy Carr. Has Keith Chegwin been stealing comedians' jokes on Twitter? 2010-07-22T11:49:00Z The novel retells the Greek myth of Achilles as a romance between him and his companion Patroclus. How Crying on TikTok Sells Books 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z But I left a lot of room for imagination because I didn't want it to be an exact retelling; it's not a documentary, it's not a biography. Alan Yang on making Netflix's lush and devastating "Tigertail" and the song that made grown men cry 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Both the Simpson and Watts stories were retold as movies and documentaries. Gabby Petito case triggers domestic violence survivors: 'The video was disturbing' 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z This retelling of the classic love story is set in a timeless, unspecified place, a smashup of the past and present. Orlando Bloom, Condola Rashad Tackle Shakespeare 2013-09-17T14:22:16Z Myths have been endlessly retold, in different ways, for different cultural moments. Two New Books Look at Mythology With Fresh Eyes 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z That suggested a modern-day action retelling, which was reinforced by the movie's famous point-of-view shot of an arrow zeroing in on its target. Robin Hood's appeal tested again at Cannes 2010-05-12T01:41:00Z Directed by Yang Yuntao with an extensive creative team, the show is billed as “an inspiring retelling” of the ancient folktale about a humble and heroic peasant girl. Dance Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In doing so, the books remain part of a cultural retelling of an exciting time in American history — even though they don't tell the full story. Little house of maybe: "American Masters" on fact, fiction and the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z In Cherry's retelling – in the third person as the "Heroic Explorer" – he received anything but a hero's welcome. The worst egg hunt in the world 2013-07-16T13:12:00Z Ms. Miller, a scholar of classical literature, has retold the myths before. Two New Books Look at Mythology With Fresh Eyes 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Both comics took that premise — sort of low-hanging fruit, in my opinion — and retold it in their own styles, adding their own punchlines. Amy Schumer accused of joke theft, and comics rally to her defense: “The comedians know who the joke thieves are” 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z In the popular retelling of the era, many have forgotten that Marshall's triumphs established the foundation for civil rights advocates by placing the imprimatur of the law on their side. Wil Haygood's 'Showdown' explores Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court nomination fight 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Butler parallels this philosophy against a reconfigured retelling of the Greek tragedy, Orpheus and Eurydice, a story modernized by Camus in his 1959 masterpiece, Black Orpheus. Arcade Fire’s Rare Power Shines on Reflektor 2013-10-28T18:41:49Z In “Hitler’s First Hundred Days,” Fritzsche’s dramatic retelling, even in the final meeting between the key players at 10:45 a.m. on Jan. 30, 1933, nothing was certain. How Hitler Transformed a Democracy Into a Tyranny 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z In Mr. Daoud’s retelling, the elderly brother of the Arab murder victim scolds a neighborhood imam for wasting his time in a discussion of God. An Algerian Author Fights Back Against a Fatwa 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z My idiot editor, Tom the Butcher, recently suggested I am a hack — specifically, that the “pokes” columns I write, retelling old jokes as poems, are easy, simplistic, and bad. Gene Weingarten: Who is the better poet? Gene and his editor face off. - The Washington Post 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z It is the source of his quirky uniqueness and of his antic creativity and he retells it in each of his three novels. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z This spring it will present a 50-playwright project, “The Mysteries,” a radical retelling of the Bible. Flea Theater Gets a Place to Call Home 2013-12-08T22:36:06Z Things that have, ever since the case first came to light in 2015, been told and retold as sympathetically as possible. Brock Turner’s victim has dreams and a future, too: Sympathy for convicted sex offender is grossly misplaced 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Now, in a series of tweets and a Medium post shared on Thursday, Knox is criticizing "Stillwater" for essentially retelling her story, and in this fictionalized version of her life, strongly implying her guilt. Amanda Knox calls out new Matt Damon movie "inspired" by her story: “Does my name belong to me?” 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z As he complains, the argument about the poverty of Shakespeare's experience refuses to acknowledge what he learned from books: all his plays are retold tales or commentaries on recorded history. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z In the comic’s retelling of the tale, it’s even possible to make out Murdock getting the first dose of radiation, though for copyright reasons he is never identified. It's all connected! Pixar and the history of surprising film and TV shared universes 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z In the March 1997 San Francisco radio chat that’s presented as his final interview, Biggie is already sensing the way in which history will be selective in how it retells a deeply complicated narrative. Biggie Smalls, the Human Behind the Legend 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Even the publisher and the book jacket say that this is a contemporary retelling of the Oedipal myth ... the question for readers isn't what's going to happen — it's the fascination with watching it unfold. Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z I would retell this later at dinner parties, a punchline that always got a laugh – a big one?! My life in San Francisco’s restaurant alley 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z That rural town was light-years away from the Manhattan home of the CBS studio, where Orson Welles was retelling H. G. Wells’s novel “The War of the Worlds” in an infamous radio production on Oct. Review: In ‘Brave New Jersey,’ a Martian Invasion That Wasn’t 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Over the past year, the buildings were transformed into the backdrop for “The Burnt City,” a retelling of the fall of Troy that is the latest show from the British immersive theater company Punchdrunk. An Immersive Show Taps ‘an Oracle’ for a Spin on Greek Myth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Born in Germany to Afghan refugees, Qurbani retells Alexander Doeblin’s novel with an African refugee as the central character instead of the novel’s freshly released, disoriented prisoner. 'I take it personally': Berlinale stars' vent anger over German race killings 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z He’s referring to the existence of a film that retells the history of colonialism and slavery from a nonwhite, non-Western viewpoint, though in 2021 that may seem less like a miracle than an expectation. Review: ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ Rewrites a Brutal History 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Hollywood Scandals The twisted tale of cult leader Charles Manson is retold in this episode. Thursday's TV Highlights: 'I Am Divine' on Showtime 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Tyson’s meticulous and absorbing retelling of the events leading up to the horrific lynching in 1955 includes an admission from Till’s accuser that some of her testimony was false. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Not only that, but it’s happening on a day on which any inadvertent break with tradition, however minor, will pass into family lore, to be retold ad infinitum until everyone involved is long dead. Help! my turkey won’t fit – quick fixes for Christmas dinner disasters 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Zarins’ debut, “Sometimes We Tell the Truth,” is a contemporary retelling of “The Canterbury Tales”; Robb’s latest, “A Conspiracy of Wolves,” features Chaucer as a character assisting medieval sleuth Owen Archer. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for January 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z But Homeric specialists should be warned that this is not simply a condensed recitation of the poem, but a retelling that emphasizes contemporary vernacular over poetry. Theater Review: ?An Iliad? at New York Theater Workshop 2012-03-08T03:00:16Z But hopefully this modern retelling will set the retrograde messages aside and focus on the themes of imagination and adventure that keep viewers coming back. Watch the Trailer for Peter Pan Origin Story Pan With Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the producers took pains to emphasize that "Killing Jesus" will be relevant, despite the fact that it is retelling a story told many times before, on TV and elsewhere. Kelsey Grammer talks 'despicable' role in Nat Geo's 'Killing Jesus' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z In Japan, the story of the 47 ronin is so central to the country’s national identity that a special word exists for the act of retelling it: Chushingura. ‘47 Ronin’: Reeves’ contribution comes off bogus 2013-12-24T19:04:37Z The director, Anne Théron, opted for Rodrigues’s 2015 retelling of the myth of Iphigenia, sacrificed by the Greeks in exchange for the wind needed to carry them across the sea to Troy. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z That story and others were retold long after Nicholas’s death on December 6, 343. Santa gears up for gift-giving that carries on centuries-old tradition 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Following the success of Maleficent last year, Disney is doubling down on its live-action retelling of classic fairytales. 22 Movies Featuring Women We're Excited to See in 2015 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Hook’s retelling of this dark and difficult time is surprisingly upbeat. An insider’s take on rise and fall of Joy Division 2013-03-20T20:16:16Z The Dutchman is, perhaps unsurprisingly, not a fan of the most famous recent retelling of Jesus's final days, Mel Gibson's blockbusting The Passion of the Christ. Basic Instinct director plans film about Jesus 2010-04-13T12:18:00Z There is also a particularly interesting retelling of the stories by the Danish novelist Villy Sørensen, published in Danish as Ragnarok: En gudefortælling and in English as The Downfall of the Gods. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z But Leviathan, a retelling of the Book of Job that hinges on a small-town mayor’s corruption, was paid for in part by Vladimir Putin’s Ministry of Culture. Everything You Need to Know About the Best Foreign Film Nominees 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Your piece looks as if it’s a retelling of the story of Antigone, but with some modern twists. ArtsBeat: Under the Radar: 5 Questions About 'Too Late! antigone (contest #2)' 2011-01-11T17:07:16Z The show sticks to the original’s main plot points, but retells them in the context of today’s politics. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Roswell, New Mexico’ and ‘Corporate’ 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Some are successful: Milton Jones's loopy one-liners are dependably amusing; Joan Rivers retells the jokes she told here last month with no less ruthless gusto. We Are Most Amused – review 2012-11-29T17:54:18Z A passionate young woman develops occult skills and is banished to a solitary island in this feminist retelling of an ancient story. 50 notable works of fiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z It’s difficult to decipher whether its aftershocks are coming from the source, or if my impressions of the event are products of distortion through the retelling and reselling of its history. Woodstock, a Utopia? Not for Every Generation 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z For now, Plan B is busy preparing The Ballad of Belmarsh, a hip-hop retelling of Defamation ..., released independently after allegedly being rejected by his label. Plan B to retire Strickland Banks 2011-01-06T14:02:00Z According to Socrates, in a legend which he either retold or imagined, the art of writing was the creation of the Egyptian god Theuth, who also invented mathematics, astronomy, checkers and dice. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z Steven Spielberg has billed The Post, which stars Tom Hanks and Streep in a retelling of the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers, as an urgent plea for press freedom. Not-so-Golden Globes: Hollywood expects darker tone on awards night 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Many of their books covered religious themes or retold stories from the Bible. Patricia McKissack, children’s author who brought black history to life, dies at 72 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z But all attempts to safeguard a sacred truth are doomed to failure when a story is significant enough to be retold. The minefield of fame: how accurate do biopics need to be? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z When writing “Voices of the Desert,” an erotic retelling of “One Thousand and One Nights,” she read the Quran twice, according to Ms. Vincent. Nélida Piñon, Provocative Brazilian Novelist, Is Dead at 85 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z “By simply retelling the story. It’s an incredible story, and you can’t devalue the story. The story is powerful enough to shape the perception of his work within the art world.” The not-so-simple comeback story of pioneering artist Sam Gilliam 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The result is a portrait, in objects, not just of one person but of many; the diary of an era that valued community as retold in a time that doesn’t. Art Review: Julie Ault’s Collection Displayed at Artists Space 2013-12-19T23:04:45Z As retold in “Argo,” the C.I.A. set up a fake movie company as part of the cover story given to Iranian officials. ‘Argo,’ as Seen by the Iran Hostage Crisis Survivors 2012-10-16T16:33:06Z You can see why those who tweet standups' jokes might see this as not so different from retelling them to their mates in the pub. Has Keith Chegwin been stealing comedians' jokes on Twitter? 2010-07-22T11:49:00Z To take one example, after so much retelling, the memory of the story of how your parents met tends to crowd out the actual events in their minds. Can Daniel Kitson Redefine the Relationship Between Comic and Audience? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z However, The Passion, Fox’s live retelling of that story with the help of pop stars and modern music, made it seem like the most confounding experience imaginable. The Passion review – Jesus Christ turns superstar in live broadcast 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Or am I retelling the story that I was told? Jeff Bridges on the Dude, making "The Old Man" and the experience of "dancing with my mortality" 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z He is one of several influential artists whose lives are being retold for screen audiences. Kravitz to play Gaye in biopic 2012-11-28T13:23:28Z In Ms. Millard’s retelling, young Churchill was entitled, precocious, supernaturally confident — one of those fellows whose neon self-regard is downright unseemly until the very moment it is earned. Review: In ‘Hero of the Empire,’ a Young Churchill Earns His Spurs 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z But after Boris Karloff stiff-armed his way into the popular imagination in Whale’s movie, filmmakers couldn’t stop retelling the story. Perfectly Frank: 10 Memorable Portrayals of Frankenstein’s Monster 2014-01-28T17:52:30Z Recall that one of the most popular of the philosophically heady playwright's works is the 1966 dark comedy “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” a retelling of “Hamlet” from the perspective of the titular duo. We just solved a major mystery in the "Lion King" franchise 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z It’s been retold many times, but Castle is always having a picnic in Central Park with his wife and two children. “Daredevil” makes the case against war: Underneath his gun-happy surface, the Punisher is a powerful symbol of the horrors of combat 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Created by Chuck Armstrong and Charlie Stockman, who perform together as the comedy duo Charles, “Moby Alpha” is a retelling of Herman Melville’s classic nautical epic, set in space. 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Blending woodworking and historical retelling, he went deep into the history of the UpStairs Lounge fire, putting together an art show for Prospect. A Fire Killed 32 at a New Orleans Gay Bar. This Artist Didn’t Forget. 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z We won’t want another retelling of how the Fantastic Four got their powers, or the history of enmity between Magneto and Professor X. That stuff has already been done to death. To Infinity War and beyond: are we in danger of Avengers fatigue? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z "Killing Kennedy" is the latest addition to the Kennedy film genre, which includes Oliver Stone's 1991 three-hour epic "JFK" and this year's "Parkland," a retelling of the chaos immediately after the assassination. Fifty years after Dallas, 'Killing Kennedy' taps into life of Oswald 2013-11-07T13:03:08Z Federico Garcia Lorca’s tragedy of a childless woman in rural Spain receives a modern retelling via the Australian writer and director Simon Stone. 17 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z He retells famous stories, like the time that Clapton ceded the stage to Hendrix, but avoids most of the old behind-the-music clichés. ‘Jimi: All Is by My Side,’ a Jimi Hendrix Biopic 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Ridley, meanwhile, says he’s simply retelling stories that have been reported previously. That never happened: the biopic conundrum 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z But in the second act, the dancers merely retell the lovers’ story through Chris Emile’s tiresomely obvious choreography. Review: ‘Stranger Love’ Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Beyond the novel, Auster's son, Daniel – from his first marriage to the poet Lydia Davis – was befriended by the decidedly unappealing Michael Alig, whose story was retold in the film, Club Monster. Siri Hustvedt 2011-03-25T07:00:00Z Robert Icke’s fraught and gripping “Oresteia,” an emotionally harrowing retelling of Aeschylus’ trilogy at the Park Avenue Armory, doesn’t get bogged down in such background details of ancient mythology. ‘Oresteia’ Review: A Mother’s Grief, Underestimated 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z All of the gender and racial ickiness of the 1933 film — defused or simply erased in the Broadway retelling — is here brought to the fore. Review: Look! It’s ‘The Making of King Kong’! (No, Not That One.) 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But the film also scrupulously retells a not very well-known moment in American life, to make pointed comments about some of the most gut-wrenching issues in the post-9/11 era. Investing in a Conspiracy of a Past Century 2011-04-10T00:51:39Z Cameron, who could not be reached for comment, in 2012 called “Avatar” a “science fiction retelling of the history of North and South America in the early colonial period.” Indigenous people slam Avatar (again) for tropes and inaccuracies 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z This mildly sarcastic retelling of “Rapunzel” seems a little too knowing for its own good, but every so often the directors, Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, unleash an image of startling beauty. Video: 3-D Movies Are Taking a New Path 2011-09-09T15:00:00Z As someone who uses primary sources and lost records to retell historical stories, I think Foner did a great job revising this history and Madeleine Lewis did a fabulous job finding the document. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z An Oxford graduate student discovers that her mentor has damaged her prospects in order to keep her close in this retelling of the Daphne and Apollo myth. Newly Published, From African Art to 3,000 Years of Athens History 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Plenty, to judge by the talking heads who punctuate this retelling of the USA's national story, and constantly bang on about opportunity and freedom. I Am Slave 2010-08-30T05:45:00Z In his retelling, Mr. Christie can draw out the story for nearly 15 minutes, or half his speech. Chris Christie, It’s Not All About Him, He Said Often 2012-08-31T21:53:10Z Some, including Trumbo’s family, have said Douglas has glorified his role a little in his frequent retelling of the tale. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z By choosing which sentences to reveal, hide or juxtapose, the guest will retell the classic story of migration. In Stone and Fabric, Two Artists Explore the Quest to Find Home 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Primarily, however, “Every Day Is Extra” is a straightforward retelling of Kerry’s life. John Kerry Recounts a Life Full of Incident (and a Few Regrets) in ‘Every Day Is Extra’ 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z His songs keep retelling his success story: the drug dealer from the Brooklyn projects who became a rapper, a star and an entertainment mogul without forgetting the streets. Music Review: Jay-Z Frets on ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ 2013-07-04T22:31:32Z The mystery reveals itself halfway through the film, when the story backtracks and is retold from a fresh angle. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Self Made’ and ‘I See You’ 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s a retelling of the Cinderella story, with bondage. Erica Jong is back — as fearless as ever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Welcome to the swell party that is Pants On Fire's glorious retelling of Ovid's tales of myth and fancy. Ovid's Metamorphoses 2010-08-17T20:30:00Z In “The Sleeping Beauty,” Catherine Breillat’s wily and witty retelling of the fairy tale, the enchanted princess doesn’t just fall into a 100-year slumber, she also hits the road, walking and riding into adventure. | 'The Sleeping Beauty': No Sleep for a Beauty Who Seeks Adventure 2011-07-07T22:47:11Z We've rustled up a list of the remaining attractions that pleased our critics most: "Black Nativity": This annual Intiman Theatre jamboree is an African-American retelling of the Nativity story by poet Langston Hughes. A list of holiday shows still on stage in Seattle 2010-12-23T21:28:13Z It achieves an effect not unlike that of traveling back in time to witness the first Thanksgiving, then returning to the present to hear its story warped through the traditional, wholesome retelling. An Opera About Colonialism Shows How History Warps 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s hard even to explain Kings, a retelling of the biblical story of David set in an alternate history version of our modern times. From Supertrain to The Crown: TV's most expensive shows ever 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Or you could show none of it, forcing us to wonder if we can trust his retelling. Homeland Watch: One of Us 2012-11-26T13:00:52Z The Outlaw Josey Wales is a retelling of Gregory Peck’s The Bravados, with slightly more blood. The meaning of Clint: what watching 40 Eastwood films has taught me 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Even with the outcome of the trial known, there were shocks and twists in the retelling. Afternoon Play ? Rage On the Road | Radio review 2010-03-24T06:45:00Z The movie faithfully follows Ms. Mapes’s retelling, and glamorizes the often gritty act of her team’s reporting. In ‘Truth,’ a News Team Tells Its Side of a ‘60 Minutes II’ Scandal 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z In “Boston Adventure,” a retelling of Cinderella, a poor girl finds in a patron the figure of a fairy godmother and wicked witch combined. Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Gang warfare also informs Nesbo’s retelling and is well suited to the extreme violence of Shakespeare’s original, in which the fighting that is described and staged is ferocious. Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z In Mr Merriman’s retelling, the Paris Commune is a reminder that the worst villainies are possible once you have dehumanised your opponent. Spring uprising 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Hell was a big theme this year, thanks to “Hadestown,” Anaïs Mitchell’s boogie-woogie retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, which was nominated for fourteen awards and won eight, including Best Musical. The 2019 Tony Awards: “Hadestown” Triumphs, Elaine May Sparkles, and Billy Porter Wins the Red Carpet 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Chi-Raq” Spike Lee serves up one of his most exhilarating, heartfelt, urgent movies in years in this wildly imaginative retelling of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata,” this time transposed to modern-day Chicago. The best movies of 2015: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Love & Mercy,’ ‘Creed’ make the top 10 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Striking 12 OC premiere of this modern-day musical retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl.” L.A theater openings, Nov. 30-Dec. 7: 'Northanger Abbey' and more 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The meal itself is conducted in a specific order that retells the story of liberation from slavery to freedom. Mazel Tov! Be sure to pick up these 6 Passover foods from Trader Joe's for an easy Seder 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The latter is one of two shows presented by Battersea Arts Centre, along with Paper Cinema's The Odyssey, a live-animation retelling of Homer's epic poem. British Council announces Edinburgh Showcase participants 2013-04-24T09:51:35Z “Within These Wicked Walls” is a fantasy retelling of “Jane Eyre” starring an exorcist named Andromeda and a handsome young heir named Magnus Rochester. What Do Authors Want Us to Know About Themselves? It Depends. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s a story Petty’s characters will keep telling and retelling and reframing for the next 16 years. A Spellbinding Debut Leaps Across Genres to Recreate the Confusion of Trauma 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z He’s just a spectacular warrior whose feats have been exaggerated over years of retelling and who relies on his inflated reputation for his career as a mercenary. Brett Ratner’s ‘Hercules’ is actually entertaining in places Another favorite is "Of Gods and Men," Beauvois' stately retelling of the true story of seven French monks mysteriously murdered in Algeria in 1996. British, French films in frame for top Cannes award 2010-05-22T23:19:00Z None of them are on Peacock, a streamer that could use a little more attention and could do a lot worse than dramatic retelling of a widely beloved sitcom classic. "Bel-Air" may not be fresh, but it has enough going for it to merit an initial investment 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Maybe retelling them is just something angels do, as, perhaps, we all do. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Very little has officially been documented aside from numbers of executions and stories of martyrs, which are retold as part of an oral tradition where fact and embellishment are often blurred. Kuwait drama on war unity contrasts current feuds 2012-08-16T12:25:15Z A gorgeous retelling of “King Lear” unfolds through the story of Arthur’s life and Kirsten’s attempt to stay alive in this surprisingly beautiful tale of human relationships amid almost total devastation. The ten best books of 2014 One critic called it "a humane, intelligent retelling" of Mary Shelley's novel. Danny Boyle's 'Frankenstein,' 'Treelines,' Tina Fey are Seattle Times favorites 2011-04-06T23:02:04Z Doyle’s production scrubs the musical to its spiritual essence, turning the company into a congregation for the retelling of a biblical journey of suffering and redemption. And the winner is ... the ensemble cast: How Broadway's best acting was a group effort 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In his masterly retelling, Mr Wilson paints a more nuanced picture of the empire as a stable and unique entity that protected the weak. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z When she was still in college, Louis-Dreyfus was cast on “Saturday Night Live,” where she played a televangelist with a raunchy retelling of the Nativity. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Once a Last-Minute Addition to ‘Seinfeld,’ Wins Comedy’s Top Honor 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z On view through Feb. 25, it also retells one of the most remarkable stories in contemporary art. Malick Sidibé’s Mali: Scenes of a Rollicking Night Life 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z One musical compromised in the process is “Camelot,” a romantic retelling of Arthurian legend that opened on Broadway in 1960. When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z “Eligible,” by the best-selling novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, is a “modern retelling” of “Pride and Prejudice,” commissioned by the Austen Project, which has been pairing contemporary authors with various Austen works. Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Eligible’ Updates Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z It was, in some sense, the one big story Bellow told — and retold in novels and shorter fictions, in essays and lectures and interviews. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z In this retelling, a scientist known by the code name Chief Designer led that initiative. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Eighty years after the infamous radio broadcast reportedly sparked mass panic that the Martian invasion was real, a major retelling of HG Wells’s sci-fi classic lands. The 10 best new TV dramas coming this autumn 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Inspired by surge in unaccompanied children at the United States-Mexico border, “Lost Children Archive” is a retelling of the American road novel, with a twist. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Tragedies leave us asking big, existential questions. Diana, the tragically bad retelling of the final years of Britain’sPrincess, now in British cinemas and debuting n the U.S. this November, is no exception. The Princess of Wails: Diana is a Royal Mess 2013-09-27T01:22:14Z Like any retelling of a classic, Scott’s blockbuster invites questions about the Exodus’ story’s origin and meaning. How Christian Bale's 'Exodus' Strays from the Bible 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The push and pull required to even embark on the R40 tour is also retold in an amusing but pointed way in “Time Stand Still.” Rush’s final goodbye: “Time Stand Still” documentary is a loving lesson in navigating loss 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z The story of Gould's inspirational career and purposeful but troubled retreat from the concert platform into the recording studio is well known, but Elie's retelling is thoughtful and elegant. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z A short story by the author of “Circe” retells the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Two years since we’ve had the pleasure of hearing Brydon retell, in a soothing American drawl, a story of an immensely erotic experience he had with a kumquat. Where next for Steve Coogan's The Trip? 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Surely this loss affected his retelling of the myth. Recordings: A New Recording of Philip Glass?s Opera ?Orph?e? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z The six-part story, written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Gary Frank, is a retelling of the formative days of the Man of Steel – from his childhood in Smallville to his move to Metropolis. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Another New Look at Superman 2010-12-31T17:00:48Z One story in particular stands out: “Steadfast: Tin,” a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Steadfast Tin Soldier.” Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z To show her that we cry when we miss our friend, and laugh when we retell a story of the good times. Perspective | Is a 7-year-old too young to go to a funeral? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z This section reads a bit like a left coast retelling of Jim Carroll’s classic about teenage life on Manhattan’s mean streets, “The Basketball Diaries.” Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers Big Ideas in Close Quarters 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z “Songteller” is divided into three equally invaluable and roughly chronological sections: song lyrics, archival photos and written passages featuring Parton’s folksy retelling of various events. Review | ‘Dolly Parton, Songteller’ is a gold mine of little-seen photos and personal anecdotes 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Their entryway with students is simply retelling the story of the American dream. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It seems that humans must look for meaning in everything — and seeing that dramatized in Mr. Turkowski’s retelling was enough, for me, to turn “Margarete,” though just a bunch of film clips, into theater. In Solo Shows, Lip-Syncing ‘Hamlet’ and Investigating Home Movies 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z But this was no retelling of a festive classic. Doctor Who: The Snowmen – Christmas special 2012 2012-12-25T18:15:00Z A heroic poem called “Heliand ” retells the story of Christ with a Northern twist: “the disciples of Jesus are like the band of men a chieftain might assemble in the expectation of their personal loyalty.” A new perspective on the birth of Europe in ‘The Edge of the World’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelly, 31, plans to work with his company, the Feath3r Theory, on a “dream project” of his: a retelling of the 1975 movie “Dog Day Afternoon.” Raja Feather Kelly Named New York Live Arts Resident Commissioned Artist 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z In “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” García Márquez retells the American arrival in the South through the town of Macondo — where they discover the banana, move the river, bring modern tools. Anglos, Hispanics and the Formation of America 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Hart's retelling of his so-called accountability was both selective and convenient. Ellen's Kevin Hart interview, "haters" and the celebrity victim complex 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z At the height of British punk, the song retold the Emily Brontë novel in an odd, arresting tour-de-force of piano filigree, continually unfolding melody and stratospheric vocals. Kate Bush Is Running Up That Concert Stage for a Giant Live Album 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z This year, the Guthrie will stream a retelling by four actors; it will cost $10 to watch, and will be free for schools. Bah, Pandemic! How Theaters Are Saving ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z This is not to diminish Williams’ responsibility in telling, and retelling a false and patently self-aggrandizing version of his 2003 experience. Brian Williams: Personal branding got in the way of the news 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel The most dramatic retelling of the Galileo story for a generation, and a rather tragic tale to boot. Stuart Clark's top 10 approachable astronomy books 2010-08-18T09:22:00Z In Chevalier’s retelling of “Othello,” part of Hogarth’s series of novels revising Shakespeare plays, the events unfold over a single day on a Washington playground. Paperback Row 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z That production — a retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” — was praised by the theater critic Brooks Atkinson in The New York Times as a “profoundly moving show that is as ugly as the city jungles.” Six Stars of the New ‘West Side Story’ Discuss Its Enduring Relevance 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Valentine bases her latest novel on a mesmerizing, surreal retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses.” The five best science fiction/fantasy books of 2014 The Menendez brothers belong to a category of criminals whose stories are being retold with more nuance and reassessed in light of shifting public opinion. The New Menendez Defenders 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z When Rob Marshall approached us about making the film, he said he felt it was time to retell this story. Back 'Into the Woods' for librettist James Lapine, with new feeling 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z But it’s a natural response to the delightful retelling of “Pinocchio” at Seattle Children’s Theatre, a show co-produced with The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, where it played earlier. SCT puts on a ‘Pinocchio’ with real heart 2014-02-19T23:48:23Z In this retelling of her story, it's hard to empathize with her, much less imagine her as a figure of tragedy. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z “I’m interested in the histories we don’t tell. I’m not interested in retelling stories that we’ve told a thousand times,” Olusoga said. David Olusoga Wants Britain to Face Its Past. All of It. 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z “Watchmen” offers some vital lessons about Tulsa’s past, even if the full history of the neighborhood still deserves a more thorough onscreen retelling. The Great Achievement of “Watchmen” Is in Showing How Black Americans Shape History 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In her imaginative and fiercely feminist retelling, Solomon offers much greater complexity. Review | Anna Solomon’s ‘Book of V’ will please fans of ‘The Hours’ with its sprawling take on a biblical tale 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z And then there was Harry, who promised to retell as many stories about goat herding, Rockefellers and antique Fords as we had time to stay for. Explorer: Biking Maine?s Rugged Side 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z Yet I found myself more engrossed than ever by this skillful retelling of a fraught and pivotal chapter in English history – and divorce law. London Theater Journal: Shadowlands 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The truths in the retelling of “Pinocchio” now at the New Victory Theater are more contemporary than we’re used to hearing. Review: A Darker ‘Pinocchio’ Strays From Disney’s Wholesome Take 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Pinocchio Family-friendly retelling of the tale of the wooden puppet who dreamed of being a real boy; recommended for ages 4 and up. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 7-14: Bernadette Peters and more 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z A short story, by the author of “Circe,” retells the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z In 2012, Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” brought new life to Homer’s “The Iliad,” in a retelling that focused on the relationship between warrior Achilles and his faithful Patroclus. Review | Twice-told tales: Jo Nesbø, Madeline Miller and others revive classic stories 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z This retelling of his autobiography is compelling, in contrast to his recent solo form. Jay-Z & Kanye West: Watch the Throne ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:27Z Like that Broadway phenomenon — which retells American history with a diverse cast and a hip-hop score — the Democrats’ convention in Philadelphia argued that progressive inclusiveness isn’t incompatible with muscular patriotism. Her Shot: Hillary Clinton Shares a Vision of America Out of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Fast-paced, angry and frequently hilarious, the evening was to a scripted show what Todd Haynes’s Bob Dylan movie “I’m Not There” was to a traditional biopic, trading literal illustration for imaginative retelling. Nellie McKay Blossoms Under Pressure From Joan Rivers’s Lawyers 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z But to be successful, a literary retelling must not simply dress up an old story in new clothes. ‘The Meursault Investigation,’ by Kamel Daoud 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Mid-18th-century England comes alive in this retelling of the classic Henry Fielding novel from PBS’s “Masterpiece,” a literary adaptation series. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Tom Jones’ and ‘Couples Therapy’ 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The key for Hurwitz is retelling that story and making it fresh. What’s on Michelle Obama’s mind? Meet the speechwriter who puts it into words. 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Mee’s “Big Love” is also a modern retelling of a classic, “The Danaids” by Aeschylus, about brides fleeing their intendeds; the production will start in February. ArtsBeat: Signature Theater Season to Spotlight A.R. Gurney and Naomi Wallace 2014-03-25T15:53:03Z Attempts to recreate this magic tend to get lost among the rhetoric of its retelling. Fleetwood Mac: magic you just can't cover 2012-07-25T15:09:00Z Even better is “The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin,” which retells “Sleeping Beauty” from a rationalist perspective. ‘Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned’: a perfect book, perhaps, for the moment 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Early in the play — a nonlinear retelling of their love and struggles inspired by “The Magpies,” a poem by a New Zealander, Denis Glover — Elizabeth whips out a knife and holds it to his throat. Theater Review: ‘Skin Tight’ by Gary Henderson at 59E59 Theaters 2012-11-22T21:31:15Z The six-day retelling of the story of the Great Fire included art installations, performances, guided tours and lectures. London’s burning, but this fire wasn’t so Great. 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Given the preponderance of cheating signs abundant in this short retelling, I’d say that your husband has some mansplaining to do. Ask Amy: ‘Bestie’ is accused of holding shoes hostage 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z We do an OK job of retelling each other's stories, and Parker talks a little about the importance of listening, and developing our comedy "ear". My bid to become a standup 2010-08-15T18:59:00Z To illustrate his hero’s character he even retells the story of Gylippus from Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War.” ‘African Kaiser’: A sweeping military history that reads like a novel 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, this George Lucas-produced retelling plays like it was made up, and with very little care. Red Tails – review 2012-06-07T22:00:01Z Producer Ken Davenport said Wednesday that the hip retelling of the New Testament's Gospel of Matthew will close June 24 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Revival of 'Godspell' to close on Broadway 2012-06-13T15:41:11Z History is never as clean as we try to make it in the retelling. With ‘1883,’ Taylor Sheridan Expands His Western Empire 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z And then there is “Hadestown,” the contemporary retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Some critics might call “Waiting for Eden” a retelling of Dalton Trumbo’s antiwar classic “Johnny Got His Gun.” A Short Novel of Love, War and Comrades in Arms Contains the World in a Foxhole 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The “my,” in this case, is Ophelia, who is thoughtfully and effectively centered in this freewheeling retelling of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” ‘The Future,’ ‘Cheap Thrills’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z “The Cage” is a lurid retelling of the second act of “Giselle,” in animal/insect terms, with a bitter ending; “Andantino” is an expansive and romantic male-female pas de deux. Dance Review: Robbins and Balanchine Cleanse the Palate at City Ballet 2013-05-29T21:44:32Z An anthology ghost story, the film has four distinct sections, retelling famous supernatural stories from Japanese literature as interpreted by author Lafcadio Hearn, on whose novel it is based. Like 'Biutiful'? Scarecrow suggests other Best Foreign Film nominees 2011-02-03T20:56:07Z That realization definitely colored the way I retold the story in “Hades: Lord of the Dead.” ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: George O'Connor On Greek Myths 2012-02-24T17:49:29Z These were the memories that relatives retold at holiday gatherings, during dinner after a funeral service, while sitting on the front porch to catch a spring breeze. "They got Daddy": Reckoning with my grandfather's kidnapping, racial terror and our family's trauma 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z “Lost Children Archive” is a retelling of the American road novel, with a twist. Valeria Luiselli’s Latest Novel Is a Mold-Breaking New Classic 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z There were also poems, book-length essays such as “The White Goddess,” and translations, including “The Greek Myths,” a respected retelling of the classic myths. Robert Graves Found ‘Perfect Tranquillity’ in Majorca 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z In a statement provided to Variety, a representative for the disgraced Oscar-winner denied a story recently retold in an interview with the Heathers star. Mel Gibson denies Winona Ryder's allegation of bigoted comments 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z His retelling of America’s and Europe’s recent crisis adds little to earlier accounts, but his version of the 1930s is rich with detail and myth-busting insights. Root causes 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Her life receives an eight-part retelling here, based on her diaries. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Gentleman Jack’ and ‘Charm City’ 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Exile is itself a kind of lie, one that requires severing the present self from the past, that past self increasingly false, buried beneath layers of retold stories. Contemporary Brazil, Captured in Two Novels and a Journalist’s Collection 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Instead, Letterman asks Obama to talk about his upbringing, his mother, his reckoning with his own identity — well-trod territory, retold as if viewers have never heard of this person named Barack Obama. Review | Letterman sits down with Obama, but both men seem rusty and off their game 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z And though he writes comically about his publishing history, it is clear that, beneath the retelling, his were dark creative struggles, shot through with affronts and humiliations. Alasdair Gray: 'There isn't much time. Better get on with it' 2012-11-18T00:08:01Z I like to let my retelling be dirty. With ‘1883,’ Taylor Sheridan Expands His Western Empire 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z There is "Wicked," which retold the story of "The Wizard of Oz" from the perspective of the Wicked Witch and, extending the metaphor, Warhol's prints of Marilyn Monroe. Nic Rad's "Celebritist Manifesto": James Franco fan art becomes actual art-art 2011-02-22T14:12:00Z As much as Gordon is interested in retelling stories that need to be told, “Travel Guide” leaves details strikingly obscured. A Composer’s ‘Travel Guide’ to His Family’s Unspoken Past 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z In his retelling, Boyle takes this story first to California, later to the middle of the country and occasionally past the point of believability. Review | T.C. Boyle captures the intersection of folly and progress. This time, it’s the ill-fated Project Nim. 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z A wandering monk hears of their story from a local fisherman; at night, the sisters appear and retell their story. Music Review: ‘Matsukaze,’ an Opera of Love and Mourning 2013-07-19T20:26:39Z For many Muslims, Rushdie, in his fictional retelling of the birth of Islam’s key events, implies that, rather than God, the Prophet Muhammed is himself the source of revealed truths. Why “The Satanic Verses” remains so controversial 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z It’s been told and retold enough times to have taken on a mythical quality. | Nearly Two Decades In, Little Dragon Breaks Out 2014-05-13T13:00:29Z Yesterday, during the television “up fronts,” the NBC network announced it would be broadcasting Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1971 retelling of the Passion, “Jesus Christ Superstar,” as part of its live musical series. NBC’s next live musical to enrage Jewish people, Christians, your mom 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The Journey to the West is not actually a myth, more a tale that takes mythical stories and retells them, knits them together into a patchwork. Neil Gaiman's top 10 mythical characters 2013-06-14T08:00:00Z But it’s the way the Chris Buck-Jennifer Lee film — Disney’s musical retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen tale “The Snow Queen” — has reached the milestone that is surprising and unusual. This year’s surprise movie hit: ‘Frozen’ 2013-12-31T22:37:39Z As with all Haggadot, this one gives instructions for the order of the ritual retelling of the Exodus story, from slavery to freedom. Seven Comic Books for This Season (and the Next) 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z A gorgeous retelling of Lear unfolds through Arthur’s flashbacks and Kirsten’s attempt to stay alive. Sci-fi & fantasy by Emily St. John Mandel, Robert Jackson Bennett, Lauren Beukes The multiplatform Complete Saga retells episodes one to six with plenty of Lego humour and charm. Star Wars: a short history in video games 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z But this year the Beethoven story is being retold to a new generation. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z If there’s still some residual angst, then maybe you agree upon a five-minute retelling of tales about your terrible colleague, then move on to full embrace of family life. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She has a 90-minute commute, but it doesn’t have to be all uphill 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z HISTORY"Gettysburg" by C. M. ButzerThe grody "Walking Dead" images abounding at this year's Con have nothing on the amputated limbs piling up in this primary-sourced retelling of the Civil War's bloodiest battle. Motherlode Blog: Home-Schooling, Comic Con Style (Part 1) 2012-10-16T21:33:22Z The team also did a thorough re-examination and retelling of the history of New York pizza, in which they dismissed many long-held myths — and apologized for having repeated them as fact in earlier narratives. The Kings of the Dollar Slice Build a Better Pizza 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Just as blandly ominous were Arlene Sierra’s music and Lucy Thurber’s libretto for “Faustine,” a feminist retelling of the Faust story. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z It was as if he were reliving an awful memory, retelling it tentatively, unfurling the pain a little bit at a time. Music Review: Perfume Genius, Singing and Suffering at 92Y Tribeca 2010-07-22T20:58:00Z They wind up turning what started out as a charming frolic into a tortured modern retelling of “Faust,” and the show seems destined to die young. ‘The Band Wagon’ Stars Brian Stokes Mitchell 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Seattle Dance Project's retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice profits immeasurably from unfolding in ACT's Allen Theatre, where the tale is played almost in the round. Review: SDP's 'Project Orpheus' benefits from roomier setting 2010-09-22T21:31:00Z The retelling of this was so redolent of a time when stars were magically remote, and Franklin little known. Radio Review: The Queen of Soul: the Legend of Aretha 2011-08-01T22:00:01Z Good morning, and happy Passover to those who tonight will retell the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt, and the arrival of freedom. A Night Different From All Others 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Rather than read me retell it, see the video, embedded above. Louie Checks His Privilege 2014-05-13T13:45:49Z Q. What does “The Night Before Christmas” sound like when retold by Bernie Sanders? Style Invitational Week 1170: Derby or not Derby — our famous ‘foal’ contest 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Viertel favors backstage anecdotes, many of them often retold, but employed here to good effect. ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical’ — from ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Hamilton’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Much of the case is retold here by Malvo himself, speaking from inside a prison cell. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Fuller House’ and ‘Dirty John’ 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The knock-on effect is of fewer comics scrabbling together their life savings to risk it all on their heartfelt retelling of the life of Nabokov through puppets. Edinburgh comedy notebook: TV is making comedy better ? and worse 2011-08-26T14:38:24Z But it is also a retelling of a foundation myth. Thar she blows! Cinema's most spectacular whale hunts 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z The tragic tale of a ballerina whose career was cut short by polio is retold in "Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun" on "American Masters." TV This Week June 15-21: 'Masterpiece Mystery!,' 'Rectify' and more 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z These memories will become, we hope, stories we will tell and retell, cherished flashbacks that will become part of our personal history. After months in lockdown, we need some new memories. But can you ‘make’ them? 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z The hunch proved right: Just 16 months after an exploratory meeting, their first opera, a miniaturized retelling of the Pied Piper myth called “Into the Little Hill,” was onstage in London. Opera’s Perfectionist Tries to Follow His Masterpiece 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Few figures in modern history are as universally beloved as Princess Diana, the people's princess whose story is oft told and retold — this time in musical form with "Diana: the Musical." An "Army of the Dead" heist prequel & the return of "You": Here’s what’s new on Netflix in October 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z The proverbial campfire scene was reenacted with tales from Shakespeare retold with minimal illustration. Notes on a truly Shakespearean year: An enlightened boldness brings out the best in the Bard 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z What emerges is an uneasy father-son relationship, relieved by Malcom's occasional retelling of Bible stories – the best of which offers an alternative version of the Flood in which Noah becomes the ultimate black survivor. Lower Ninth 2010-10-05T22:30:00Z Fiction based on historical events — especially one as frequently retold as the Manson family murders — can easily slip into second-hand banality, a kind of nostalgia of horror. Emma Cline's 'The Girls' is a gorgeous, disqueiting spin on Manson family dynamics 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z To devise the scripts for these presentations, the company told — and retold and retold — the tales to one another. A 9-Hour Play? Sit, Eat, Drink, Even Fall Asleep to ‘One Night.’ 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The case is full of fascinating and outlandish details — a straightforward retelling would have no trouble being greenlit — but one stands out: what they spent the money on. Review: ‘Landscapers’ Is Not Your Typical True-Crime Love Story 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z This book retells the ninth-century Old Irish poem “Pangur Ban,” a monk’s simple reflections on his companionship with his cat and the parallels between his scholarly pursuit of knowledge and the cat’s playful hunting. The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The musical is a retelling of Jesus’ ministry structured around a series of parables, mostly from the Bible’s Gospel of St. Matthew, with songs interspersed. Day by day: Musical ‘Godspell’ celebrates 50th anniversary 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Today, we get lush images like those by Yanick Paquette, who has drawn many covers and comics for DC, including “Wonder Woman: Earth One,” a modern retelling of the Amazon’s origin, written by Grant Morrison. Superhero or Supervillain? Technology’s Role Changes Comic Books 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z When Holland retold the story in 1930, he imagined their conversation as follows: King: "I say, Carnegie, what in the world is this?" Independence Day fossil: Dippy the star-spangled dinosaur 2013-07-04T14:28:00Z The Democrat’s book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” delivers a retelling of his efforts to contain the virus as it ravaged his state in spring. Cuomo book on NY pandemic outbreak short on state missteps 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z But I suspect it would be a very discerning elementary or middle-school student—or a willfully perverse one—who would chose the old version over the Percy Jackson retelling. The Percy Jackson Problem 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Here’s another batch of “Pokes,” Poems retelling corny jokes. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Corny jokes for preteen folks inspired this edition of ‘Rhymes Against Humanity’ 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z But a 30-part television serial on Iraq's 1990 invasion has become more than just a retelling of the occupation and the brief but intense Gulf War. Kuwait drama on war unity contrasts current feuds 2012-08-16T12:25:15Z Half had little to no interest in these films because they were "depressing," and they were interested in "more than just a retelling of the story." Why aren't cinephiles taking the Oscar bait? Salon conducted an unscientific survey 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z The Michael Green-created series was loosely based on the story of King David and lasted just one season despite being a bold and visually engrossing modern retelling of the biblical tale. Beyond the Winter Soldier: Sebastian Stan has always played roles that exist outside the binaries 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z I decided to ask Curtis Sittenfeld, author of “Prep,” “American Wife” and most recently, “Eligible,” a modern retelling of “Pride and Prejudice.” Criticism’s Sting: The Author Curtis Sittenfeld on Book Reviews 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z But they bring such immediacy to what they do that you follow them as if they were caught up in a story, one so strange that aspects of it bear retelling. Dance Review: A. O. Collective?s ?90 Ways to Wake From Drowning? 2010-08-01T22:25:00Z Despite the Harvard academic's talk of war games and television in the classroom, however, it is by no means certain he would give the thumbs-up to the retelling of history in Paul Rudnick's Valhalla! Valhalla! 2010-07-12T20:31:00Z He brings two new contributions to his retelling. The Failure of Egypt’s Revolution 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z She told and retold the story of how my father died. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z West's World is really what Auden called "a shilling life", the retelling of a career we love to read about, lazily written and sloppily edited. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z The book offers her account of the trial, but the film is not a retelling of actual events, nor an opinion on the verdict. Kercher drama tackled on big screen 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Anna Kloots, recently divorced and living in Paris, also came to Los Angeles, a setup the siblings thought of as a Covid-era retelling of “Three Men and a Baby.” The Story of a Famous Covid Widow 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Anne of the Thousand Days looks lovely, but, if you want a gripping fictional retelling of the King's Great Matter, read Hilary Mantel's books instead. Anne of the Thousand Days: Tudor tale of thwarted passion with unlikely twist 2013-03-27T10:10:04Z As for Shields, the '80s icon is now retelling her story in "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields," a new ABC News documentary that's named after the 1978 film of the same name. "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields": The 10 most heartbreaking revelations from Hulu’s new doc 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z He takes particular issue with Pullman's retelling of the parable of the prodigal son. Jesuit priest accuses Philip Pullman of waging war on Christianity 2010-08-12T14:18:00Z The legend of Faustus has been told and retold in several literary and musical works, including the classic play "Dr. Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's contemporary. Hamlet goes back to school in 'Wittenberg' 2011-03-21T22:17:18Z This discussion unfolds in one of the book’s strongest sections, a retelling of a bizarre arranged meeting between Malcolm and the leadership of the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta in 1961. A New Life of Malcolm X Brimming With Detail, Insight and Feeling 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Blair mounted a full-scale counteroffensive to retell the story of Bill Clinton’s early years, his political awakening, his accomplishments as governor. From press paranoia to affairs: A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z In fact, the retelling of the Grimm brothers' classic stories is much darker than your typical Disney film. Streep on 'troubling' witch role 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Gerald’s magnificent memoir, “There Will Be No Miracles Here,” opens with the same anecdote that began his TED talk, though in the book, he punctuates the retelling by announcing a kind of thesis. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z This main narrative is apparently a retelling, introduced during an interrogation between Mary — now blindfolded, with blood dripping from her eye sockets — and the town constable. ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’ Review: God Is Always Watching 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Tina Sinatra was said to favour a sanitised retelling of her father's life, with George Clooney in the lead, while Scorsese reportedly planned a warts and all version with regular collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio as Sinatra. Al Pacino is Martin Scorsese's first choice to play Frank Sinatra 2010-05-25T13:07:00Z Because it’s not just a retelling, it’s a reclaiming. They took Grandmaster Caz’s rhymes without giving him credit. Now, he’s getting revenge. 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “We’re not doing an accurate retelling of ‘One Thousand and One Nights,’” she said. A 9-Hour Play? Sit, Eat, Drink, Even Fall Asleep to ‘One Night.’ 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Go back to the 1970s, after the obsession with retelling the legends of world war two wore off, to find a multitude of films about the common man. Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z And there are only so many stories out there, so it can make as much sense for filmmakers to retell as to create something new. Recycled Films and Bitsy Screens 2011-05-22T00:43:01Z Mr. Hertmans read and reread these notebooks, and he retells his grandfather’s life in his own modern voice. Review: ‘War and Turpentine,’ a Grandfather’s Painful Life 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z So I wanted to retell the story but set in more or less modern times and with a female protagonist. St. Vincent Talks Her New Album 'MASSEDUCTION' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The hip musical retelling of the New Testament's Gospel of Matthew opens Monday at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Broadway's 'Godspell' is heaven-sent for its cast 2011-11-05T18:01:04Z And as he retold the story of slaying the Mouse King, Mr. Duclos’s wide-open radiance transcended his diminutive stature. New York City Ballet Wraps Up ‘Nutcracker’ Season 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Long after being vomited up by that great fish, the Jonah character in Mary Rakow’s retelling of the Bible thinks, “I wanted a better God.” Mary Rakow’s ‘This is Why I Came’ asks us to reimagine biblical tales 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z And the agreeable messages about the joys of music and of camaraderie had to be wrested from a fable that seemed more convoluted, in this retelling, than need be. Theater review: In new SCT musical, it's 'Brementown' or bust! 2010-04-22T21:17:00Z "The Magnificent Seven" easily snagged the crown from "Sully," the retelling of the "Miracle on the Hudson" landing that topped the box office for two weeks. Box Office: 'Magnificent Seven' hits bullseye with $35 million debut 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z A Royal Affair is a watchable and historically respectable retelling of Caroline Matilda's extraordinary story – but what a pity we didn't get to see her in drag. A Royal Affair: one to remember 2012-07-06T08:53:50Z The retelling of Charles M. Schulz’s classic comic strip has benefitted from being one of the only family-friendly flicks in theaters right now, and its domestic total is now at $82.5 million. James Bond Lives Another Day at Top of Box Office 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z But unlike his audience, Rush That Speaks is trapped within his own story — fated to retell it countless times, without ever remembering that he has told it before. John Crowley's new epic 'Ka' is a late masterpiece in a stellar fantasy career 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z “His Dark Materials” is at heart a daringly subversive retelling of Milton’s “Paradise Lost” posited on the daring notion that the world is saved, not ruined, by original sin. With ‘La Belle Sauvage,’ Philip Pullman Begins a New Trilogy 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z It is a tragedy no less raw in the retelling. Last night's TV 2011-04-11T08:33:13Z “I am incredibly proud to be a part of this new retelling and start the dialogue again, at a time when it is needed more than ever.” Watch the First Trailer for the 'Roots' Remake 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The epic retelling of the Bible story left teen sci-fi Divergent floundering in its wake, consigned to fourth place with a first weekend tally of £1.76m. Macaws challenge Marvel at UK cinemas 2014-04-09T14:59:36Z If “The Clinton Affair” seeks an even retelling, “Slow Burn” snakes in and out of the narrative, teasing out themes and sorting out confusions. Paula Jones, Reconsidered 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z What follows is more than a rehashing of Raisman's trauma, or another retelling of the devastating harm Nassar unleashed on hundreds of vulnerable victims. "Aly Raisman: Darkness to Light" wields celebrity to empower all survivors 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “This period of history must be retold to every generation,” he said. 20 Years Later, Schindler’s List Producer and Holocaust Survivor Branko Lustig Looks Back 2013-03-07T15:00:23Z The result is a deliciously clear, crisp retelling. Radio review: Woman's Hour drama ? Wives and Daughters 2010-12-02T08:00:00Z That, in essence, is what all Greek tragedies do, creatively retelling stories from the past to reflect on the present. Clash of the Titans and the classics 2010-04-13T10:52:00Z This retelling of the Bonnie and Clyde story is not content to posit that those two Depression-era outlaws got what they deserved when they died in a hail of bullets on a Louisiana back road. ‘The Highwaymen’ Review: Grumpy Old Men on the Trail of Glamorous Killers 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z But no matter where the fictional story is set or when it arrives, this retelling of a Shakespeare classic by a modern-day Chicano clown is a delightful mash-up of curiously compatible cultural sensibilities. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Although I didn't realise it at the time, each story is retold in a style that's in keeping with its source country, whether it's Sudanese, Polynesian, Japanese or Basuto. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z The creative risk – such as it is – within the new series centres on the retelling of real events as they would have been covered by this idealistic newsroom. The Newsroom: are news anchors really this important? 2012-06-23T23:04:22Z Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images is set to play Moses in Ridley Scott's retelling of the story of the biblical hero, according to Deadline. Christian Bale to play Moses in Ridley Scott's biblical epic 2013-03-18T10:53:08Z The failed romance of the talkative nymph Echo and the handsome hunter Narcissus, as told by Ovid in his “Metamorphoses,” gets a contemporary retelling by this interdisciplinary arts ensemble. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The review that made it sound most interesting was one in the Telegraph, which declared it a retelling of The Communist Manifesto. Unlike Harry Potter, The Casual Vacancy casts no spells 2012-09-28T23:06:41Z Published Tuesday, the book is Clinton's retelling of her presidential election loss last year. Clinton's book publisher questions reviews from Amazon users 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z He views the Beatles and the Stones as "one single epic story", an intertwined narrative he has been telling and retelling for the past three decades. Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z The narrator of the first story — “Signal,” a retelling of “The Turn of the Screw” — takes his family to the country estate of a friend who has “ascended to some new stratosphere of international wealth.” Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z While bad remakes cynically retell a famous story with few or no variations, or make changes that ruin the core themes rather than enhance them, this one takes a smaller story and expands upon it. "Us" is a good "Twilight Zone" adaptation, but it's not as good as Jordan Peele's "Get Out." 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z By now the consequences of such brilliant gifts and the admiration they inspired are so well known, they hardly need retelling. A World War II Exhibition at the Grolier Club 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z For some, she also wrote the text; for many others, she retold well-loved folk and fairy tales, sometimes translating them from the original French. Marcia Brown, 96, Dies; Book Illustrator Won Three Caldecott Medals 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The term I coined for poems that retell some stale old jokes. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Think my poems are lowbrow? All of these are based on science jokes. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Those who've tried to get their kids off to sleep without a 48th retelling of an all-too-familiar favourite will recognise the syndrome. Why we are happy to be caught in a web of movie remakes 2012-07-10T08:48:56Z I was worried I would have to retell the story of my high school sweetheart’s death to pancreatic cancer over and over. ‘Too Beautiful to Be in Ruins’ 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z This retelling of the Great Depression-era folk tale about two star-crossed lovers teases out the twin themes of their dangerous lust and their lust for fame. 'Bonnie & Clyde' has murderous leads, killer songs 2011-12-02T23:27:18Z A lyrical retelling of the Cain-and-Abel story in which four Nigerian brothers play truant from school, go fishing and meet a soothsayer who predicts that one brother will kill another. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Neither Owens’ feats of athleticism nor his inner turmoil are performed, in Hopkins’ retelling, in a vacuum. Stephan James on Why It's Wrong to Call "Race" Timely 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z While writing this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s famously dark “The Red Shoes,” McLemore, the author of four previous novels, including the National Book Award-longlisted “When the Moon Was Ours,” embraced a non-gender-conforming identity. In Hollywood, Stories About People of Color Are Still Rare. These Y.A. Fantasy Novels Pick Up the Slack. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z And anyway, I've stepped away from the obvious "retelling of fairytale" candidates. Graham Joyce's top 10 fairy fictions 2012-06-27T12:57:57Z Reuniting to retell the emotions of the breakup, Post and Gordon made a point not to hold back any feelings. Veruca Salt reunites to tell story of breakup, recovery in 'Ghost Notes' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Yet this Beltway scandal is now cumbersomely retold in tones of chest-busting indignation and browbeating patriotic urgency, and its assumed happy ending is unsatisfactory, to say the very least. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z Known for its imaginative retelling of classic stories, Target Margin Theater staged a production of Eugene O’Neill’s “Mourning Becomes Electra” in April and May. Two Theater Companies Set to Nest in November 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Yet “Reagan” provides an unblinkered but respectful look at the man as well as a skillful, imaginative retelling of his long and improbable career. TV Watch: Remembering the Reagan We May Never Know 2011-02-04T18:54:16Z This documentary retells the team’s story through the players’ eyes, conveying the troubles and the racial tensions that brought the team down when it was at its peak. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Elián’ and ‘Asian Provocateur’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Tóibín’s slim 112-page novel is a retelling of the Bible, told from the perspective of Jesus’s mother, Mary, as she struggles to recount the monumental events of her life through her grief. Who Will Win The Man Booker Prize? Here’s The Shortlist 2013-10-15T15:51:23Z A Cambridge historian’s clearsighted retelling of English history also analyzes how the English themselves have viewed their past. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z “This is an old story retold in a new way by the community that lives in this place now.” Rip Van Winkle, Newly Awake, Meets His Neighbors Onstage 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z That is one of many tales retold in “Pictures from a Revolution,” Mark Harris’s delectable book on the Oscar-nominated pictures of 1967. Postscript: Mike Nichols (1931-2014) 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z This retelling of "Dawn Treader" is relentlessly goal-oriented -- our heroes must collect seven swords, and free a bunch of people imprisoned in mysterious green mist -- in a way Lewis' book simply isn't. "Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader": Narnia gets a religious makeover 2010-12-09T01:30:00Z It's inevitable that the usual litany of labels and put-downs dominates Jay-Z's concerns; Shawn Carter's wraps-to-riches story is the meta-narrative to all his albums and only fades a little in the umpteenth retelling. Jay-Z: Magna Carta Holy Grail – review 2013-07-06T23:06:33Z Once in a while someone would retell in a magazine the story of his Argonne fight. The celebrity war hero of 1919: The search for Sergeant York and his famous WWI diary 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Tyson’s absorbing retelling of the events leading up to the horrific lynching in 1955 includes an admission from Till’s accuser that some of her testimony was false. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z My work is basically about stories and what happens when they are told and retold. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z After all, “artistic licence” is not just a naughty habit of the entertainment industry, it is essential to condensing and retelling any story. The minefield of fame: how accurate do biopics need to be? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z “Doggie Hamlet” doesn’t retell that story but borrows from it to look at, in part, what it means to be a citizen of the world, nature included. But Is It Art? In the Case of ‘Doggie Hamlet,’ Yes 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z At the 200-seat Hertz stage, “Seize the King” — Will Power’s hip-hop retelling of “Richard III” — was preparing to open. 54% of the People. 12% of the Plays. Atlanta, Do We Have a Problem? 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The police went over the details, asking her to retell her version again and again. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Passover and its Seder, the traditional meal and retelling of the exodus from Egypt? Theater Review: ‘The Last Seder,’ by Jennifer Maisel, at the Mint Theater 2012-12-28T19:19:26Z Narratives are often retold from different perspectives, or ambiguously, as if they might be fantasies. Films of Hong Sang-soo Capture Pleasures and Pratfalls of Attraction 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z It retells the story of “Fifty Shades of Grey” and the earliest section of “Fifty Shades Darker” from Christian’s perspective. ‘Fifty Shades’ fans get a look inside Christian’s head — and it’s not pretty 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z On Friday, NBC announced that it licensed The Wiz, a musical retelling of The Wizard of Oz. Julianne Hough and Vanessa Hudgens to Star in 'Grease' Live Musical on FOX 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z With massive battle scenes, biblical plagues and a towering tidal wave, British director Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings" is an epic historical drama and retelling of the story of Moses as a reluctant prophet. Epic 'Exodus' casts Christian Bale's Moses as reluctant leader 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Indeed, “Picture,” also a one-act, could be paired with “Into the Little Hill,” a retelling of the Pied Piper fairy tale, for a future double bill. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z The story of the Syrian sorceress who attempts to undermine the Crusaders by abducting one of their knights, Rinaldo, sometimes creaks in this retelling, and the second half tends to hang fire dramatically. Armida 2010-06-08T21:01:00Z William D. Cohan’s exhaustive, surprisingly gripping retelling of the episode, “The Price of Silence,” proves its worthiness. Books of The Times: ‘The Price of Silence’ Replays a Wrenching Campus Episode 2014-04-06T21:03:03Z Often in the retelling or looking at archival footage, a new perspective will emerge, or something you didn’t expect. HBO Documentary Has Competition. These Women Don’t Seem Worried. 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z As long as people are telling stories, they will be telling and retelling Red Riding Hood. Emma Barnes's top 10 books with wolves 2012-08-09T13:42:22Z To call his retelling tedious is understating the problem. Netflix's "Dracula": Put a stake in it – it's not well done 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Ralston survived to write about his ordeal in Between A Rock And A Hard Place and now his story is being retold by Boyle. On the set of 127 Hours, the first big film of 2011 2011-01-01T00:04:00Z At the end of the book, after retelling the widely known controversy of her "purple house" in San Antonio, Cisneros also explains why she sold her famous home and moved to Mexico. Sandra Cisneros opens up about her life in 'A House of My Own' 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The story, which first aired on television in 1962, was retold in 1983’s “Twilight Zone: The Movie” in a segment directed by Steven Spielberg. George Clayton Johnson, science-fiction author, dies at 86 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z On March 30 Tarsem Singh’s “Mirror Mirror,” a zippy new version of the Snow White story, arrives, and yet another retelling, “Snow White and the Huntsman,” is threatened for this year. Arts & Leisure: ?Mirror Mirror,? ?Grimm? and Hollywood Love for Fairy Tales 2012-03-21T12:00:11Z His forthcoming counternarrative blends memoir — a retelling of his own family and tribe’s experiences — and in-depth, detailed reporting on 125 years of native history. The 10 books to read in 2019 based on what you loved in 2018 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z In stories called “Incident in the Forest” and “The Wedding,” for instance, Copp retells the fable of the lion and the mouse. Jim Copp, the Forgotten Virtuoso of Children’s Storytelling 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z In retelling the story of a 15-year-old who gets sucked prematurely into the world of bands and groupies and roadies and drugs, it lands instead in a mystifying muddle, occasionally diverting but never affecting. Review: In ‘Almost Famous,’ the Heart of Rock ’n’ Roll Flatlines 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z “The wonder of Ms. Mantel’s retelling is that she makes these events fresh and terrifying all over again,” Janet Maslin wrote in her review. What to Read by (and About) Hilary Mantel 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Neither turned out to be true, but the lack of an orchestra, especially in a show that retells the music as much as the dance, was singularly felt. Dance Review: Prince?s Fate, Entwined With Desire 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z As I tell my students, storytelling at its best is nothing sort of sorcery; the greatest stories we can't help but remember and retell and be changed by. K-dramas cured my prejudice against Asian men 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z And "Hamlet, Prince of Grief," featuring Iranian actor Afshin Hashemi using household objects and children's toys in his retelling of Shakespeare's classic in Farsi. Theater festivals fire up a cold New York 2013-01-05T23:37:24Z Pinned by the camera as if they were butterflies, they retell their stories. ‘Untouchable’ Review: A Documentary of the Harvey Weinstein Case 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z The pilgrimage, in Smith’s retelling, is a pub crawl, and her “pilgrims” reflect the diversity of contemporary London. Zadie Smith’s First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The coming year sees the launch of a major international project in which Shakespeare's plays will be retold by acclaimed novelists. Books in 2015: A look-ahead 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z “King Otto,” which opens with a quote from “The Odyssey,” treats its retelling of a soccer underdog story as the stuff of myth. ‘King Otto’ Review: For Greece, a Whole Different Ballgame. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Others are far more convincing, for example, Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style in which the same anecdote is retold in 99 different ways. Oulipo: freeing literature by tightening its rules 2013-07-12T09:34:37Z So, this really is the end — unless James plans to retell it once again, from the point of view of the housekeeper, the bodyguard — or the riding crop. Review | E.L. James’s Fifty Shades series has come to an end. What have we learned from this provocative romance? 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Star Wars happened a long time ago, and the same stories of good, evil and the hero's journey have already been told and retold ad infinitum, down through the centuries. Star Trek v Star Wars: Star Trek v Star Wars: fans weigh in on the timeless debate 2013-05-17T13:50:00Z If the Haggadah were just retelling the Exodus story, then analogies would be limited only by political or religious tastes. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z The musical will retell the story of teenager Jess, a Punjabi Sikh who loves football but is forbidden to play by her parents. Bend It Like Beckham set for stage 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Theatre Works records the U.S. premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s fast-paced retelling of the American Revolution for its radio program; with Gregory Harrison. L.A. theater openings, March 19-26: 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Since the end of November, the poet and playwright has been the star of “Yippee Ki Yay,” a one-man retelling of “Die Hard” at the King’s Head Theater in London. Yippee Ki Yay: ‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Still, it's an interesting insertion of the fantastical in an otherwise straightforward true crime retelling. What does "The Shining" have to do with Hulu's "Candy"? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace retold the origin story in a staff memo circulated Monday to note the occasion. Inside Fox News: How the impeachment fight is opening fresh divisions in the newsroom 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Exposure: Mal Peet This contemporary retelling of Othello – the doomed couple now a black Brazilian star footballer and a pampered young pop goddess – will continue to grip young readers for years to come. Best children's books: 12-years-old and over 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z But Tarantino, ever-wily — and recognizing that lightning won’t strike twice — spots in the retelling a chance to shape the novel quite differently. Review | Quentin Tarantino turned his last movie into a novel, but don’t think you know the ending 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas This new animated special retells the story of the movie "Elf." Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'MasterChef Junior Edition' on Fox 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z “It’s a story so fine and thrilling that it’s grown old in its hopeful retelling.” The Stealth Absurdism of Patrick deWitt’s “French Exit” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Yet this piece of comic Americana also retells the original E.T.A. Mark Morris’s Party With Robots, Barbie and a Nutcracker 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Broadway debut of Langston Hughes' retelling of the Nativity story with two upcoming events at local libraries. Langston Hughes celebrations around Seattle 2011-09-30T21:37:04Z It's a contemporary retelling that's meant to be fun and entertaining. Curtis Sittenfeld: 'I know my characters are unlikable sometimes' 2013-06-15T16:30:00Z But like a spurned lover who keeps retelling his own sad stories, the narrator can’t help but interject his torment. Percy Sledge, Pop Miracle 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z “Grey” is a 559-page retelling of Ms. James’s blockbuster erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Grey,” this time from the perspective of the moody billionaire Christian Grey. ‘Fifty Shades’ Fan Fiction Assumes a Life of Its Own 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z So Ava DuVernay’s Selma, a vivid retelling of the months leading up to the three historic marches from Selma to Birmingham, carries a message that has lost none of its heroic, tragic relevance. REVIEW: 'Selma': The Film of the Year — But 1965 or 2014? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The book retells the story of Patroclus and the legendary warrior Achilles from their first meeting as children to their deaths at the siege of Troy. Madeline Miller wins Orange Prize for Fiction 2012-05-30T20:08:16Z She is also the author of the picture book “Natalie Portman’s Fables,” in which she retells such classics as “The Three Little Pigs” and “The Tortoise and the Hare.” Bookish: Natalie Portman to chair National Library Week 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Here’s a book pitch you probably didn’t expect: a retelling of “The Great Gatsby,” but gender-swapped and framed as a psychological thriller. 13 Y.A. Books to Add to Your Reading List This Spring 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Miller’s retelling, with primary sources and many direct quotes, sympathetically portrays the complicated and precarious situation faced by both the Dionnes and the medical community rallying to save the quintuplets. The Dionne Quints Were Premature and Tiny. But Fame Was the Real Problem. 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z In Week 1328 we asked you to retell or summarize a book or play, or a scene from it, in the voice of someone else. Style Invitational Week 1332: Call them Spellimericks 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Kelly drew acclaim as an Off Broadway choreographer in plays like “Fairview” and “A Strange Loop,” and was in the process of developing a retelling of “Dog Day Afternoon.” A Choreographer Gives ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ a Makeover 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z A reboot in 1986 led to a retelling of Wonder Woman’s origin and her journey to America. Wonder Woman and Her Evolving Look 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z If Michael Kinnan’s solo retelling, “Never Let Go,” captured the emotion running through both the movie and the feeling of watching it, this production doubles down on “Titanic” and Dion as modern camp icons. ‘Titanique’ Review: A Musical Finds Its Sea Legs 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z What is it like to be part of this diverse, feminist retelling of a classic fairy tale? On Broadway, ‘Bad Cinderella’ Is a Rebel With a Brooklyn Accent 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Also Stephen Fry’s new book, “Mythos,” a larky retelling of all the Greek myths, many of which I never did get straight. He’s Played Churchill and Lear. But for John Lithgow, Audiobooks Test His Mettle. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Before she agreed to put “the incident” back into the public’s imagination, Lorena talked to Peele, who explained to her that there would, inevitably, be comedy in this retelling. You Know the Lorena Bobbitt Story. But Not All of It. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Verdi’s first popular opera, “Nabucco,” retells the story of the captivity. Frederick Douglass, July 4th, and remembering Babylon in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z In the “Fuzzy Pink” retelling, Russell’s character is seized just before the premiere of her new film, “The Kidnapped Bride.” We?re Holding Your Plot Device. If You Want It Back, Send Us ... 2011-07-02T01:33:02Z Amid the carols and nativity plays, the human impulse to tell and retell tales is central to the real meaning of Christmas. In praise of ? The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-12-21T00:01:08Z It’s a fun twist on the traditional scene, and it sets the tone for an adorable retelling, engaging and character-rich. Three New Cinderella-Inspired Romance Novels 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z “I thought, if we’re going to open the new space and be concurrent with this show that’s a retelling of American art history,” Mr. Sanders said, “I should think of iconoclastic figures.” Conlon Nancarrow’s Player-Piano Works at the Whitney: No Live Performer Needed 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z “Hamilton,”a thrilling hip-hop musical that retells the story of one of the nation’s founding fathers, was announced as the 2016 Pulitzer winner for drama on Monday. “Hamilton” wins a Pulitzer and Twitter finally explodes with joy rather than rage 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z It is a retelling of the Rapunzel tale and features a princess who is more aggressive than the one in the original story. Field Notes: Fairy Tales, Royal and Otherwise 2010-11-30T00:38:00Z Zinn, who died in January aged 87, sought to retell history through the eyes of its participants. History lesson 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z Leslie notes how Williams' story gradually shifted over the years, his role in the narrative becoming more central in each retelling. Americans' ability to forgive, forget fibs depends on who tells them 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z In a way, the final line retells the whole story: a wildness has been tamed in the writing, but it is the wildness that has given the poem its staying power. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z One of the world's earliest dramas, Aeschylus's The Persians, was a kind of infotainment, retelling the Persians' defeat at sea in the then recent Battle of Salamis in 480 BC. The Living Newspaper: America's rapid-response drama 2011-03-28T16:56:16Z Brian Williams straight up fabricated a personal account from the Iraq War that he retold over the years. Tiffany Cross was too real for MSNBC 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Like most offerings in the genre, the game includes an interactive retelling of the film's plot. Pixar wizards lend a hand to 'Toy Story 3' game 2010-06-15T14:12:00Z While Snyder incorporated at least some of those elements into his 2009 retelling, the work was slapdash and, true to the director’s style, mined for bombast instead of meaning. Actually, maybe HBO shouldn’t adapt “Watchmen” at all 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z “Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings” is no mere retelling of the scandal at Monticello or Hemings’s secret life or Jefferson’s service in Paris and Washington — although it certainly throws all that into its furnace. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z And “Finian’s Rainbow” is a fable always worth retelling, with an absurd plot which is really not absurd at all. I’m 46. Is That Too Old to Play the Ingénue? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Véronique Olmi’s novel retells the story of a strong young woman who was exploited and dehumanized before finding herself in more merciful and hopeful circumstances. A Sudanese Slave Starts a New Life in an Italian Convent 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z Until the Lions An excerpt from the ancient Sanskrit epic “The Mahabharata” is retold through Indian classical dance and contemporary dance in this U.S. premiere from choreographer Akram Khan and company. The week ahead in L.A. dance, Oct. 15-22: Akram Khan Company, Invertigo Dance Theatre and more 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Universal Pictures recently re-negotiated rights to the novel - a modern retelling of the Cain and Abel story - from the Steinbeck estate. Lawrence to star in East of Eden 2013-09-26T10:14:52Z It retells a story we all know and are probably a bit sick of, that being the rise and fall of Orenthal James Simpson. OJ: Made In America – the Oscar winner that's the most in-depth look at race in America yet 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Corbijn picturesquely frames the back story to the shoot, but his muffled retelling drifts with Dane DeHaan’s murmurous impersonation of Dean and Robert Pattinson’s almost perversely listless turn as Stock. Review: In ‘Life,’ Photographing James Dean, the Rising Star 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z When Mark and his brothers get together to retell old stories, Wahlberg’s kids “make fun of it, like, ‘oh God here we go, Dad and his street stories, whatever Dad.’ Mark Wahlberg: 'I was a little rough around the edges' 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z “I want interiority and surprise and characters who feel as though they have a reason to exist beyond retelling history.” Seeing Yourself Onscreen Is Good, but Not Good Enough 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z They jointly appeared in "Omkara," a retelling of Shakespeare's "Othello" in modern India. Bollywood stars Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan wed 2012-10-17T06:31:07Z Pieces include “Ottof,” a dance piece from Marrakesh; and “Cabaret Crusades: The Secrets of Karbala,” a movie that retells the story of the seventh-century Battle of Karbala with puppets. Cannes Festival Begins and Chinese Artists Head to Sydney: Global Arts Guide 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “La Belle, Lost in the World of the Automaton”: Imago Theatre of Portland, Ore., presents a retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” using an array of visual effects, puppetry and animatronics. Fall shows for families and kids: 'Ella Enchanted,' 'Story Pirates,' 'Oz' and more 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Almost each historical event is retold through memory, recording, evaluation and discussion. Anglos, Hispanics and the Formation of America 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z These must have been harrowing existences, but their retelling makes for very good and suspenseful, if occasionally ponderous, reading. ‘Secret City,’ an Epic Narrative History of the Closet in the Capital 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Iranians are so irked by the historically flimsy retelling of the hostage crisis that their government has commissioned its own version in response. And the winner is … Islamophobia 2013-01-15T08:30:03Z His retelling of “Emma” is a beguiling tale about a bossy and self-satisfied heroine troubled by her hypochondriac father, sure of her own social position and determined to play matchmaker. A modern retelling of ‘Emma,’ by Alexander McCall Smith 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z The Golden Thread continues its questioning programme with a show by six artists concerned with ambivalent attitudes to the retelling of accounts of suffering. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-26T23:05:08Z That’s Falstaff, a man who never lived through anything that, in the retelling of it, he couldn’t tweak, distort and invert to his own greater glory. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z Yet for what it sets out to do, detailing the bond of young boys under surreal circumstances, “Shooting Stars” is a relatively sturdy retelling. ‘Shooting Stars’ Review: Brotherly Love and Basketball 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Who could have imagined the impact of this retelling of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton’s life story in a musical that fuses hip-hop and R&B with a sophisticated Broadway know-how? A critic's take: Why 'Hamilton's' Tony Award record ushers in a new era for theater 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Colman, who won an Oscar earlier this year for playing a different royal in dark comedy “The Favourite,” portrays Queen Elizabeth in a retelling of the life of Britain’s reigning monarch. 'The Crown' welcomes its new royals in Season 3 launch 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Photograph: Nina Subin A debut novelist's retelling of one of the most enduring Greek myths, the story of Achilles and the battle for Troy, is the surprise winner of the Orange prize for . Orange prize for fiction 2012 goes to Madeline Miller 2012-05-30T18:12:31Z “These stories have to be retold every generation,” Else said, “and they have to be told by new storytellers.” ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z At first, “I didn’t see the value of me retelling what I think of as the worst day of my life,” she told me. One year after the San Bernadino attack, learning to survive is a routine part of life 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z By “celebrating our untold history as Indigenous women by gathering in a circle of retelling,” Ms. White-Eye said, she “couldn’t think of a better community project.” Welcome to Barn-Quilt Country 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Only, very little of that myth that we retell each year is true. Why the biggest Thanksgiving lie may be the turkey on your table 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Do we need the entire case — the subject of Paul Collins’s recent “Blood & Ivy” — retold to us simply because the Longfellows wrote about it in diaries and letters? Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z A retelling of the Boer War through Dutch eyes? Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z They offer praise and retell the Nativity story, lingering over its humble circumstances and sense of sacrifice. For New Holiday Albums, It Takes All Kinds 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Your most recent novel, “The Silence of the Girls,” is a retelling, of sorts, of the Iliad. Pat Barker on Trauma and Myth 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z And wonder like that – I can hear it even in the retelling – you just can’t fake. 'I never thought I'd see it again': the Irish beach that came back 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z The fantasy has been retold a thousand times, most famously by George Bernard Shaw, whose version featured a phonetics professor who remakes a Cockney flower girl into an Edwardian lady. Is “Pretty Woman” on Broadway a Big Mistake? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The novel is an exploration of adolescent trauma and its otherworldly manifestations rather than a retelling of a trope. Two Novels Confront Violence Against Women 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Her tales have been “told and retold for decades, shaped, reshaped — or sometimes, when enough time had passed — cracked open in the telling.” She Didn’t Know How to Read, but Her Stories Captured History 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Their story, though not new, is grippingly retold in “Breaking Rockefeller”. Guts, greed and gushers 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z And as bodies pile up — there is also a shooting — and the plot thickens, "Glass Onion" folds in on itself, flashing back to some events and retelling them from a different perspective. Cozy up to "Glass Onion," the droll "Knives Out" sequel that delivers all the murder mystery goods 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Each chapter explores a different British forest concluding in a retelling of an old fairytale. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z The book, along with the other retold works, which will be published in 2016. Jo Nesbo To Write ‘Crime Noir’ Version of Macbeth 2014-01-14T13:26:13Z As the tale of Fereshta’s death is retold by witnesses in increasingly heartbreaking detail, it becomes clear that Crane was more interested in gaining acclaim than in providing aid. A Novel Set in Afghanistan Challenges the Myth of the Good Occupier 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Beeson’s opera is like an American retelling of the Electra myth. Jack Beeson, Composer and Teacher, Dies at 88 2010-06-09T04:58:00Z There’s a lot of power in retelling your mistakes so people can see what’s funny about them — and so that you are in control. Review: ‘Not That Kind of Girl,’ by Lena Dunham The Beatles, or at least their corporate surrogates, have embraced Jackson’s retelling, and a preview of the film highlighted moments of brotherly silliness, like the band dancing and clowning in the studio. Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z DuVernay combines performer interviews with VHS footage and audio clips of their shows to retell a magical period in the hip-hop scene. ‘This Is the Life’ Review: A Valuable Part of Hip-Hop History 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z It retells a European folk tale — about love, a curse, broken promises and reptilian transformations — in songs new and old. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Still, she always retells even familiar stories in clever ways, and her narrative momentum never flags. Review | Sherlock Holmes may not have been a real crime-fighter, but his creator was 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z History doesn’t mean much if there’s no one there to remember it, retell it and use it as a steppingstone to new heights. ASAP Yams, of ASAP Worldwide, Bridged Hip-Hop Regions and Generations 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Yet the biggest stories, the ones that often have a direct impact on our lives, are rarely retold in contemporary music. The Guardian made music: 'found' sounds and food, chiffchaffs and Labour contenders 2010-10-08T14:38:00Z Jobs’ story has been retold through countless books, TV programmes, documentaries and movies. Michael Fassbender on playing Steve Jobs: 'Was he flawed? Yeah! We all are' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z For a movie about the author of A Brief History of Time, this is a studiously chronological retelling of Stephen and Jane’s 30-year marriage. The Theory of Everything review: My Left Brain 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Both of them are get giggly just retelling the story, like sisters sharing a sordid bit of gossip. Icona Pop put some punk spirit into dance music 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z Martin’s “Song of Ice and Fire” series all retold in Dr. Seuss’s well-known rhyming scheme. Game of Thrones Dr. Seuss Mashup Reimagines 'Oh The Places You'll Go' 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z What I would hope for is the access and the ability to process my trauma in the way she did, which was to retell it in that way. "Zola" director on making a stripper and sex movie that looks and feels "consensual" 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z And this extraordinary retelling of those events sends a chill. David Tennant Craves Old English Dinners and Cigarettes After Sex 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z ABC is the latest network to dabble in religious projects with "Of Kings and Prophets," a retelling of the story of David and King Saul that's scheduled for 10 p.m. on Sundays. ABC's Paul Lee touts diversity, stability, ambition of 2015-16 lineup 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Not so long ago, a film of a fairytale, or indeed another traditional tale, would generally involve a faithful, though sanitised, retelling of the source material. Tangled: ironically ever after 2011-01-14T15:00:18Z Soon I was retelling our story to the man who answered that door. Modern Love: A String of Bulbs Was Our Guiding Star 2010-12-23T21:30:25Z Written in an accessible and at times swashbuckling style, the book is in many ways a retelling of the U.S.’ When Native Americans were arms dealers: A history revealed in 'Thundersticks' 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The myths are retold too, in children’s cartoons and comic books. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z The prophet—played by an actor reminiscent of a less-talented Ashton Kutcher—sneers and snivels through a slanted retelling of the founding stories of Islam. The Anti-Mohammed Video: Ridiculous, and Now Deadly Serious 2012-09-12T17:09:42Z Take “Monkey Man,” with its madcap rock ‘n’ roll gusto or “Midnight Rambler,” Jagger’s fright-provoking retelling of the Boston Strangler’s “silk-stalking” spree murders. The Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed" at 50: An even darker "Gimme Shelter" emerges 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But be warned: Ms Cline’s retelling is far from a straightforward fictionalisation of the murders. Mean girls 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Breslin’s debut novel is a historical romance and a retelling of the biblical Book of Esther, set at a transit camp for World War II prisoners bound for Auschwitz. An Everest memoir, a how-to guide to treehouses 2014-04-28T18:34:06Z Ms. Isenberg retells United States history in a manner that not only includes the weak, the powerless and the stigmatized but places them front and center. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The film covers the five years in which those leaders were assassinated, but it also retells the history of the long 20th century and now 21st century through the lens of American race relations. Finally, a Screenplay by James Baldwin 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Q: "In One Person" takes place over Billy's lifetime, so he is about your age when he is looking back and retelling things. Irving explores bisexuality in latest best seller 2012-06-28T18:18:42Z I thought: This is a story that deserves retelling. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Fresh Look at Benedict Arnold’s Treason 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z This piece, set to Purcell, is much admired for its retelling of Shakespeare’s “Othello” within the formal constraints of Baroque social dance. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival Dots Lower Manhattan 2013-08-13T21:41:40Z An audio segment called “Death of a Cave Allegory,” a modern retelling of Plato’s famous parable, felt like an unremarkable excerpt from an undergraduate philosophy class. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z There are years of your life whose every retelling sounds just a little bit absurd, as though your life has made a bad joke out of itself. In ‘Luster,’ Young Black Women Feel Uneasy in a White American Home 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden were cosmetics industry pioneers whose battle has been chronicled on the page and onscreen, and now a musical retelling of the story is coming to Broadway. Clash of the Cosmetics Titans: ‘War Paint‘ Is Coming to Broadway 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “Memphis” and “Million Dollar Quartet” retell an old, now reassuring story: how early rock ’n’ roll breached barriers of race and class. Rock Music Becomes the Mainstay of Broadway Musicals 2010-05-14T23:36:00Z “I can’t even retell this story now without getting teary. It is one of the many demoralizing experiences that have taken place within my 20+ year waitressing career.” Ken Friedman, Power Restaurateur, Is Accused of Sexual Harassment 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Though a faithful retelling of Matthew's Gospel through music and excellent for church use, the Passion is ultimately an exercise in community. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z "Did I do wrong?" the woman wrote, in the daughter's retelling. Dear Abby's legacy: Wit, warmth, and snappy advice 2013-01-18T14:05:19Z I'd hear the same stories repeated, distorted, reinvented and retold in different voices, with different endings. Walking tours are the real fringe theatre 2010-12-20T11:38:27Z Both left feeling intrigued, and when she received free tickets to a downtown retelling of “Cinderella,” burlesque style, she didn’t consider whether the show would make an appropriate second date. A Burlesque Reveals More Than Expected 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z At corners like Cherokee and Tennessee — an association that brings up the Trail of Tears — Counterpublic has installed “Erased History Markers” that retell these facts. Counterpublic in St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Well, to be more precise, two musicals are back on Broadway: “Waitress,” about a gifted baker in an abusive marriage, and “Hadestown,” a contemporary retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Musicals Return to Broadway With ‘Waitress’ and ‘Hadestown’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Instead, it raises funds, which explains why Winehouse has written a book entitled Amy: My Daughter that retells her story from his perspective. Amy and me 2012-06-25T19:00:04Z In 2015, James published “Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian,” a retelling of the first novel in the trilogy told from Christian's point of view. E.L. James has a new 'Fifty Shades': 'Darker' from Christian's point of view 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z “Riverfront,” which comes closest to approximating the Meters sound in nearly acoustic style, is Nocentelli’s retelling of his friend Aaron Neville’s career hauling bananas before he paid his bills with music. Leo Nocentelli’s long-lost folk-funk album sees the light of day, 50 years later 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Who would bet against Mr. DiCaprio in a flashy retelling of one of literature’s best-known stories? Media Decoder: Defying Naysayers, ‘Gatsby’ Proves a Box-Office Winner 2013-06-02T21:13:21Z The new National Museum of Qatar retells the nation’s colorful history through immersive exhibits. Instead of luxurious, bustling Dubai, try underrated Doha 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The five quickly resolved to retell their experiences in a book. ‘13 Hours’ Gives Benghazi Attack Cinematic Treatment 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z It's more that "Potemkin" pioneered what became a staple Hollywood genre, the heavily fictionalized, inspirational retelling of historical events, built around easily recognizable archetypes of good and evil. How "Battleship Potemkin" reshaped Hollywood 2011-01-12T01:32:00Z This should never be a case of race; it is a case of sensitively retelling one story from a disaster. The Impossible is 'beautifully accurate', writes tsunami survivor 2013-01-04T16:27:00Z But as I drive there I worry whether, by this point in his career, he might be sick of retelling anecdotes about Princess Buttercup and Nora Ephron. 'I want everyone to be happy': how Rob Reiner became a great director – and a political hero 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z This is Tolstoy as if retold by the romance novelist Georgette Heyer. Dance Review: Illicit Love and All Its Consequences 2011-07-12T22:55:57Z For “Wednesday,” Kelly’s multilayered, conceptual, sharply funny and visually arresting retelling, he has immersed himself in Eden’s life. A Choreographer Gives ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ a Makeover 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z An epic retelling of the Gunfight at the O.K. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z This is the part where, in retelling such encounters, a few friends, more colleagues and at times, even my husband, jokingly try to help me “understand” what I misunderstood about a particular exchange. Perspective | Trapped in while dining out: When white people make me part of their show 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z She said, “I wrote the book to keep living the story. I was retelling it to myself.” In Her Memoir, Martha Teichner Turned the Lens on Her Own Life 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z In the most startling twist, this retelling offers only modified redemption for Leontes. The Winter's Tale – review 2012-05-30T17:10:17Z Instead, I am going to retell real news stories as poems. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Relax, these aren’t old jokes retold as poems 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z But mostly it’s because Iggy is hilarious, always reliable for retelling stories of all-out mania, delivered with raspy, dry mirth. Iggy Pop and Oasis Strike a Sharp Contrast in Two New Rock Docs 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It was a literal retelling of the Bradbury story. Bernie Taupin Tells the Story Behind 1972’s ‘Rocket Man’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Horizon started with an old story worth retelling, about a Norwegian woman who skied into a ravine and got stuck under the ice. Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks: Aftermath; Inspector George Gently; Horizon 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z In Mr. Carlson’s breezy retelling, these hapless efforts to recapture the company’s former glory amount to almost comic exercises in futility. ‘Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!’ by Nicholas Carlson 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z An edition without the N-word for grade schoolers, "retold from the original," is part of Sterling's Classic Starts Series, which includes books by Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jonathan Swift. Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z There is a dreamlike quality to Retz's performance-cum-installation, the fifth part of a six-month project entitled O Brave New World, which retells Shakespeare's story in a disused shop in Hackney, east London. Prospero's Library – review 2012-06-18T18:06:44Z Her crime spree is retold in this engrossing dramedy, based on Israel’s memoir. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ and ‘The Jungle Book’ 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z What actually happened in Dublin 100 years ago is relatively simple to recount, which hasn’t stopped successive generations of historians from retelling and reinterpreting the story through various perspectives. How a failed rebellion changed the world: The Easter Rising’s strange centennial 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z But whatever was going through Williams’ mind, then and now, what’s telling is the way that both he and NBC told and retold the story over the 12 years in between. Crock and Awe: What Was Brian Williams Thinking? 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Exagoge Theatre Dybbuk presents this ancient Jewish play that retells the biblical tale of Exodus in the style of Greek tragedy. L.A. theater openings, July 31-Aug. 7: 'The Tempest' and more 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The shady real estate dealings that Helen digs out of Roger’s past are convoluted and sometimes confusing in this retelling. ‘Truth Like the Sun’ examines bright 1962 dreams 2014-04-30T23:41:12Z As for Levy's next moves, he's developing a "Tinker Bell" comedy with Melissa McCarthy and an Ali Baba retelling called "Forty Thieves." Director Shawn Levy exits Warner Bros.' 'Minecraft' movie 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z More than a retelling of Vassily’s story, “Young Heroes” is a memoir of Halberstadt’s family and the country where he was born — a loving and mournful account that’s also skeptical, surprising and often very funny. Writing a Family Memoir When Your Grandfather Was Stalin’s Bodyguard 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z In her new interview, she retells her story of harassment while fighting back tears. Paula Jones, Reconsidered 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z A patron would commission him to retell a story and he was paid in royalties. In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z The show is a retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, dividing its time between the world above and the world below. Bringing Broadway Spectacle Back to Life 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z His most flagrantly erroneous retelling of the helicopter incident was on the "Late Show With David Letterman" in 2013. NBC News anchor Brian Williams suspended for six months 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z In Icke’s retelling, Dr. Wolff becomes the victim of virulent social media attacks that smack more of misogyny. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z This current crock of mendacity is a "high-concept" fabrication, artlessly crass in its retelling of what's meant to be the greatest story ever told. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z In retelling the history, the author seems as blind to this as she is dogged in her biases, making frequent mentions of “freedom fighters”, “comrades” and “cadres”. From hope to horror 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z I am often asked how and why I chose the path that I did, and I often retell the story of hearing Mahler 3 live for the first time. Your First Crush 2013-07-17T16:03:16Z And only in the play’s second scene — in a bunkhouse, where Lennie retells George about the dream farm they’ll someday own together — did I sense a warming current of affection between the characters. Theater Review: James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in ‘Of Mice and Men’ 2014-04-17T02:00:12Z So many stories are retold between family and friends, and they’re so good it just seemed it would be a shame to keep them to ourselves. ‘Action Park’ Looks Back in Amusement and Terror 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z “Lebanon, Pa.” retells the old story of the city mouse and the country mouse while meticulously applying it to America’s simmering culture wars. | 'Lebanon, Pa': In a Small Town, Big Life-Changers 2011-04-29T04:03:01Z The many stories Young retells prove her point and are fascinating in themselves. Review | ‘Women Who Fly’: a tale of female emancipation through the ages 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Clavin’s chief objective in retelling this story is to entertain us. How Wild Was Wild Bill Hickok? A Biographer Separates Life From Legend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z When she retells her story without the jokes, it’s bracing. Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The retelling of a James story needs to be this stark. In search of a very British, and rural, kind of horror 2013-02-05T11:33:50Z The clanging insistence of bells became a critical device to her retelling of this classic story about the game of games: the marriage game. A Madcap ‘Pride & Prejudice,’ Alfresco in the Hudson Valley 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Aucoin and Ruhl met for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant and decided to adapt Ruhl’s modern-day retelling of the legend focusing on Eurydice’s point of view, rather than Orpheus’ descent to Hades to rescue her. Aucoin’s ‘Eurydice,’ modern retelling of myth, opens at Met 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z But Mr. Payne’s play, an earlier version of which was performed as “The Art of Dying” in 2013, is structured as a competition between two possible tragedies instead of a straightforward retelling of one. Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Face Death Onstage 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z And it included the last song Kate McGarrigle wrote, “Proserpina,” retelling the myth of Persephone for its tension between a prodigal daughter and her baleful mother. Music Review: Her Folksy Parlor, Crowded With Family and Friends 2011-05-15T22:02:17Z In a speech reproduced in that collection, Ms. Brown wrote of her lifelong impulse to retell and illustrate traditional stories. Marcia Brown, 96, Dies; Book Illustrator Won Three Caldecott Medals 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z His album “Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America,” in which he provides a satirical retelling of American history, is one of his most acclaimed works. Stan Freberg, Popular American Satirist, Dies at 88 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Newspapers are full of them every day, and billions of people around the world adhere to religions based on a few ancient stories that keep getting told and retold. Noises off: Should dramatists beware the seductive power of the story? 2011-03-10T17:38:27Z “Everything in ‘West Side Story’ is of a piece,” Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times wrote the next day about the show’s retelling of “Romeo and Juliet” against the backdrop of gang conflict. ‘West Side Story’: How We Covered the Classic N.Y.C. Musical 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z While Mr. Preljocaj has been known to retell classic stories, as with his 2008 version of “Snow White,” here he plays with the absence of narrative. Dance Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Miller’s fascination with Circe became an obsession after she published her 2011 debut novel, “The Song of Achilles,” a retelling of the Iliad that centers on a romance between Achilles and his friend Patroclus. Circe, a Vilified Witch From Classical Mythology, Gets Her Own Epic 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, in this painstakingly assembled retelling of their ordeal, their innocence is about the only thing that defines them. Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case 2010-03-11T05:17:00Z The tale of honest frontiersmen threatened by bad guys is one reliable standby of the genre; another is the enthusiastic retelling of famous lives. Westerns by Larry McMurtry, Craig Johnson, David Fuller, Jeff Guinn The new book is a retelling of the second book in the series, “Fifty Shades Darker,” told from Christian Grey’s point of view, apparently called “Fifty Shades Darker From Christian's Point of View.” E.L. James' new book: 'Fifty Shades Darker' from Christian Grey's point of view 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The retelling garnered several laughs before Smith got serious. Will Smith pays tribute to Jada Pinkett Smith at BET's 'Black Girls Rock' 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z She realized that “if we were going to retell the story of Abstract Expressionism as not entirely masculine, we also had responsibility to retell it as not entirely American,” she said. Retelling the Story of Abstract Expressionism Through Women Artists 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z If, for example, you remain confused about what happened in the last election, Andersen’s retelling of history will clarify things for you. Fake News: It’s as American as George Washington’s Cherry Tree 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The U.S. military has called his account inaccurate, but he adamantly stands by his retelling. SEALs Turned Authors: A Military Reading List 2012-08-24T15:46:58Z This retelling would seem to have everything that audience could possibly want – travel, seduction, danger, and enough beauty to offset the frequent bouts of projectile vomiting. "The Serpent" is Netflix's seductive serial killer drama that ultimately lacks legs 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z In Edelman’s grand retelling of Simpson’s life story, he holds no one innocent, least of all his central subject. O.J. Simpson, American icon: Why the football star turned accused killer is one of the 20th century’s most important cultural figures 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Technically, “Jesus Christ Superstar” offers a stylized retelling of the story of Easter, up to the Crucifixion, and the Passover seder that was the Last Supper. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' Announces Its Broadway Cast 2011-12-22T16:59:50Z The book is a retelling of Albert Camus’s 1942 classic “The Stranger” from the perspective of the brother of the Arab man killed by that novel’s protagonist, Mersault. Goncourt First Novel Prize Is Awarded to Kamel Daoud of Algeria 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z But who wants to retell the same old story? 'Curious Incident' director Marianne Elliott isn't afraid of big risks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z “There is a sense of pride that comes in a retelling,” she explains. Perspective | People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote a musical about them. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z According to the composer, The Lighthouse Keepers is a "play for radio", a retelling of a turn-of-the-20th-century Grand Guignol text. The Lighthouse Keepers/Words and Music – review 2013-07-05T16:36:06Z "Synthesis" is "a retelling of our history, and yet it's something completely new," Amy Lee explained in an interview for the album. Bring me to life: Evanescence helped me find my trans voice 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z I signed up to revisit Arnold and his treason with the aim of retelling the whole story as vividly as possible while taking on board the recent outpouring of scholarship about colonial and revolutionary America. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Fresh Look at Benedict Arnold’s Treason 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z In this retelling, an aging Blackbeard has installed himself as the godlike figure ruling over his own banana republic. Blackbeard epic 'Crossbones' has NBC crossing its fingers 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The documentary “The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden” meticulously retells a long-ago murder mystery. ‘The Galapagos Affair’: a murder mystery in paradise 2014-04-17T20:32:24Z It's of course a retelling of the famous epic poem of the same name. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Thor' 2011-05-05T16:58:34Z I attempted a modern retelling, with my bird boy coming of age in New York in the Y2K to 9/11 era. Inspiration Information: 'The Last Illusion' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Sofia Coppola won the director’s prize for this at Cannes: a more feminine and feminist retelling of the American civil war drama that Don Siegel filmed in 1971. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z And her narrator, in retelling the experiences of her grandfather’s generation, enfolds them into her own. Revisiting ‘The Tiger’s Wife’ and the Balkan Wars 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z “First Love,” by Kate Gersten, finds three girls at a slumber party each telling a story, then retelling the tales simultaneously. Theater Review: ‘The Spring Fling: First Love,’ at the Access Theater 2014-05-05T21:19:25Z And the prince, well, with his tights and slashed-sleeved doublet, he looks as if he stepped out of a 16th-century retelling of “Cinderella.” Once, Twice, Thrice Upon a Time 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z But the most powerful part of the case against Ms. Routier — and the most disturbing, in the retelling — was an all-out character attack. Review: ‘The Last Defense’ Aims to Open Once-Shut Cases 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The story was told and retold of how Twentieth Century Fox had doubted the chances of Star Wars, and of Lucas using that to negotiate a large share of the merchandising rights for himself. The folly of Empire: how Star Wars menaced Hollywood 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “Midnight’s Children”: Based on a novel by Salman Rushdie, this film retells 30 years of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi history interspersed with the evolution of two boys swapped at birth. Birds and boats | Weekend Preview 2013-05-08T18:36:38Z We had favorite movies and nicknames and stories they liked to hear retold. Hilary Duff’s smoking outrage 2012-06-20T18:55:00Z All the ingredients of the misery memoir are present in these tales, yet none of them are retold to elicit pity or even compassion, at least not for the subjects themselves. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z The legend of Achilles retold from the point of view of his friend Patroclus. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z "Almost 50 years later, the story of liberty’s leaders continues to be told and retold to new generations as Walt Disney originally envisioned," the blog post said. Animatronic Biden joining Hall of Presidents at Disney World 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z But easily the season’s biggest misjudgment was Michael Bay trying to retell the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor through the lens of someone who’d seen Titanic multiple times. Sun's out, flops out: what's the worst movie summer ever? 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z “For me, the film provided a lot more factual information about my father -- not just tall tales that were misconstrued, misremembered, rehashed, retold 10 different ways,” she said. Frances Bean Cobain: I don't like Nirvana, but I'm a lot like Kurt 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z That point was made more than 50 years ago by Dean Acheson, but it too loses nothing in the retelling. Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside? 2011-04-02T06:30:00Z Penguin, which published both Mr. Das and Mr. Debroy’s books, is releasing Mr. Pattanaik’s retelling of the Mahabharata later this year. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z “I left her the way I found her,” he writes ruefully in the introduction to “Respect,” explaining his decision to retell Ms. Franklin’s story as an independent party. David Ritz Opens Up About Aretha Franklin and Others 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Many people with difficult histories carry these histories with them, burnishing the past with each retelling. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z And, in an oral retelling of the story of Lord Ram, the Hindu god is so moved by the steadfast devotion of his hijra subjects that he promises, “Never again shall you be invisible.” A Personal Fight for the Dignity of L.G.B.T. People in India 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Dating back to the fourth century BC, "Zhao" is one of the oldest stories still being retold. 'The Orphan of Zhao' a skillful, specialized epic 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Furst: I think why we ask questions about people's childhoods is the stories that are selected and retold are emblematic. “Wealth is a higher power”: Amazon's “LuLaRich” & the ultimate suburban white women’s pyramid scheme 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z And any true kitchen disasters are told and retold until they become loving family lore. A Cooking Club That’s 124 Years Old and Counting 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The myth probably spread from there to Cornwall and then to Brittany, and finally was retold in various ways by French and English poets. 'Tristan und Isolde' backstory rivals any soap opera 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z His whimsical characterizations of human beings, barnyard animals and jungle beasts entertained audiences through tales both new and retold. Simms Taback, Writer and Illustrator of Children?s Books Dies at 79 2012-01-01T06:47:20Z But the retelling does not sap the power of the story. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z The specific movie that set the editor off was “Snow White and the Huntsman,” a retelling of the Grimm fairy tale starring Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron as the disinherited princess and her vengeful stepmother. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z Her memoir, “Whistleblower,” is a methodical and earnest retelling of one woman’s effort to go to school and do her job in environments that were actively hostile to her existence and well-being. Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet Disney isn't churning out these live action versions of animated classics like "The Jungle Book" and "Beauty and the Beast" because there is some deep creative yearning among the filmmakers to retell those stories. Disney's live-action "Aladdin": Wish for it to be over 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The film is a kind of retelling of “Lawrence of Arabia” from the perspective of the Arab nationalists wrestling independence from the Ottoman Turks. ‘Son of Saul’ Leads Foreign Language Race, but Look Out for ‘Mustang’ 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Although I'm a big believer in "Happily ever afters" - the ending seemed only fitting considering it's a retelling of fairy tales for adults - laying bare the moral complexities of heroes and villains alike. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z He meets this challenge by interweaving two narratives: a third-person retelling of Melville's passages across land and sea, and a first-person depiction of Melville at home, told through the eyes of his wife, Lizzie. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z Tribes would take over their history and retell it, celebrating their re-emergence as a political force. ‘Nation to Nation,’ at Museum of the American Indian 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z When Man 1 dies, the episode is retold, this time with Man 2, the countertenor Gerson Sales. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z But it’s much more than a retelling of the familiar tale in which a homely poet writes verse to be recited by a clueless hunk. Review | Poking fun at the male ego — and academia — in one cheeky little novel 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z In Adams’ retelling of the night, his response to the heckler was "genuine" and rooted in empathy, not petty vengeance. This is not just a story about Ryan Adams 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z All that said, “Hue 1968” is a meticulous and vivid retelling of an important battle. The Beginning of the End in Vietnam: An Account of the Battle of Hue, by the Author of ‘Black Hawk Down’ 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z But this weekend, Robinson and Carlos will join other comedians in retelling even more remarkable moments from America’s past and doing so while under the influence for “Drunk Black History.” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The story of their relationship is told, and retold, from each character’s point of view, with the audience unsure about the reliability of either narrator. After ‘The Affair,’ Ruth Wilson Hits Broadway in ‘Constellations’ 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Each of her three books retells the story from a vantage point in the character's old age. Last Friends by Jane Gardam – review 2013-06-08T08:02:01Z Interview magazine publishes Ms. Fox’s retelling of the night’s events, with photos. What Is Going on With Kanye West? A Timeline 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z As he and I told and retold our complicated history, we were pushed to the breaking point. After Losing My Sight, Struggling to Be Seen 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z As the context of Straparola's retelling is the entertainment of literate people, his version of the tale is self-consciously rustic, while straightforward ribaldry has become suggestion. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z The series will combine live action with computer-generated imagery to retell stories ranging from Noah and the Ark to Exodus to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. History channel gives 10 hours to 'The Bible' 2011-05-24T04:28:08Z “She says to me ‘Oh no, I never let strangers in my house,’” he said, retelling the story in a voice that kept rising. Laughter and Love, a Gazillion Dates Later 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Her retelling of Prince Charles's "tampon moment" on Wednesday beat every comedy show on Radio 4, bar Down the Line. Rewind Radio: Don't Log Off; Beatles Brunch with Geoff Lloyd; Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show – review 2013-05-11T17:00:08Z She retells it here with the color and liveliness of a novel. Books to Watch Out For: October 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Neither rapper has much new to say, or new ways of saying it, like, say, Currensy, who’s made a career out of retelling the same inhale-exhale story with different fascinating details. New Music: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa?s Collaborative Album ? Review 2011-12-12T23:45:22Z I had read its astute retelling of Columbus’ arrival, and it was in stark contrast to what had been taught in my fairly-progressive New York City public school. It’s 1492 all over again: Police arrest Dakota Access Pipeline protestors on Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The exchange revealed the extent of his delusion, but, when retold to her audience, it also got a laugh. Diane Keaton neglected her mentally ill brother for most of his life. Now she’s trying to make it right. 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The German director is best known for the acclaimed 2004 film Downfall, retelling of the last days of Adolf Hitler. Diana: the royal biopic 2013-06-13T11:36:00Z Here’s a look at some of the history behind the coming season — spoiler alert, for anyone who wants to watch without any prior knowledge — and how the creative team approached the retelling. ‘Winning Time’ Is Back. Here’s What to Know Ahead of Season 2 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z So while West of Memphis retells the story of the case, it also becomes part of it – the legal work Jackson financed unpicking the threadbare convictions. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z One instance is his work for a modern retelling by Henry de Montherlant of the myth of Pasiphaë. ‘Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts’ at the Morgan Library 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z A simple story retold 99 times from different view points. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z But for me, tuning into a Judas-centered retelling of the Passion of the Christ felt like a kind of rebellion too. Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The umpteenth retelling of the King Arthur myth doesn’t even have the good sense to be bad in a fun way. And your new worst film of 2017 is… “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Shakespeare would wink and nod, then puckishly up the ante, launching into a boozy retelling of escapades by veteran warriors of the king. ‘Pleasure, Obligation, Curiosity, Inspiration’: What’s on Marie Arana’s Nightstand 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Nothing gives my grandmother more pleasure than retelling that story. When your 5-year-old asks about the F-word 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z When I retold the neighbours’ story to my husband later, he laughed. Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z This one is a dramatic retelling of President Barack Obama’s years as a young student at Columbia University. The Best TV Shows and Movies New to Netflix, Hulu and More in December 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The opening Good Man's Wife, an emotional retelling of the well-worn Raggle Taggle Gypsies, starts with the intriguing line, "I've been loving you like a soldier in the peacetime, waiting for the war." Bella Hardy: Battleplan – review 2013-04-18T20:20:01Z This is a balancing act because we don’t want to throw people too far off from knowing this is a retelling. ArtsBeat: Behind the Poster: A Grown-Up Alice in 'Wonderland' 2010-11-23T17:04:00Z In this retelling, black women’s pain is incidental. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Jessica, meanwhile, embodies “the gigantic megawatt center of their family universe,” her voice “retelling their little family stories, webbing their lives with nostalgia.” The Idealized, Introverted Wives of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fiction 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Film adaptations serve the same purpose of reappraisal: in retelling a story they revalue it in relation to the different reality we now inhabit. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z The Bourne Identity, he said, was supposed to be a retelling of Iran-Contra. Cannes festival diary: Smart mutts and bare torsos 2010-05-21T23:23:00Z Audiences outside London may not spot such infelicities, but most people old enough to remember the Princess will recognize the film as recent history apparently retold by space aliens. The Princess of Wails: Diana is a Royal Mess 2013-09-27T01:22:14Z |
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