Kurt Andersen talks with Gregory Maguire, author of fairy tales for children and up-side-down fairy tales for adults.

Gregory Maguire wrote the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, on which the hit musical was based. He is also ...

There are many predictable signs of Christmas other than snow: holiday music pumps through pharmacy loud-speakers, colorful lights adorn your neighbor's house and ballet companies mount their annual production of the Nutcracker. But how did a classical ballet from Tzarist Russia become an American Christmas tradition? Dance scholar Jennifer ...

Once upon a time there was a miller’s daughter who was ordered to spin straw into gold. Tonya Pinkins, star of the musical Caroline, Or Change, reads the classic tale of Rumpelstiltskin.

This fall a new opera called Haroun premiered, based on the book Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. In 1989, Rushdie was forced into hiding after the Ayatollah Khomeini and declared that his novel The Satanic Verses was heresy against Islam ...

For years Tom Otterness’s creations have been getting into all kinds of trouble. In New York he’s best known for his little bronze figures that roam throughout the 14th Street subway station. They’re cute and creepy at the same time; some even have money-bags for heads. Otterness wants ...

You've probably had a moment in your life where something about your destiny suddenly became clear, when you could almost see the cartoon light bulb appear over your own head. Playwright David Ives remembers the scene that sentenced him to the theater for life.