Bram Stoker News

The Shincho Prize for New Writers (2002). The Noma Prize (2004). The Akutagawa Prize (2005). The ?e Prize (2010). Two times a Wall Street JournalBest Book (2012, 2013). Later this fall, the recipient of the 2014 David L. Goodis Award for Noir Fiction. Last year, he was even long-listed for the Bram Stoker Award for Horror Fiction. This is all to say that Fuminori Nakamura's genre defying fiction has made him one of the most award-winning Japanese authors in recent memory.

Coronation Street's Kym Marsh, West End & Broadway star Rachel Tucker and Jayne Wisener from Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd will play the iconic Brides of Dracula in this brand new adaptation of Bram Stoker's iconic masterpiece on vampirism starring Gerard McCarthy.

As PENNY DREADFUL makes its San Diego Comic-Con debut, SHOWTIME will host autograph signings featuring cast members Josh Hartnett, Reeve Carney, Harry Treadaway, and creator and executive producer John Logan on Thursday, July 24th and Friday, July 25th. This marks the series' first trip to the world-famous gathering in San Diego. Headlining the opening night of Comic-Con, PENNY DREADFUL's panel session, moderated by Emmy® Award-nominated actress and host Aisha Tyler (The Talk, Archer), will be presented on Thursday, July 24th from6:00-7:00 pm in Ballroom 20. A special package of PENNY DREADFUL-inspired tarot cards will be given to all fans who attend the panel session. Additionally, four lucky members of the panel audience will have the opportunity to win tickets to an exclusive PENNY DREADFUL party that evening.

Single tickets went on sale today for Colorado Ballet's 54th season, which will include A Midsummer Night's Dream,Dracula, The Nutcracker and Ballet MasterWorks at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House and Peter and the Wolf at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts.

Unbound Productions Executive Director Jonathan Josephson, Artistic Director Paul Millet, and Producing Artistic Director Jeff G. Rack have announced the line-up for WICKED LIT 2014, the 6th annual immersive theatre event that will take place at Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery in Altadena, California.

Theater critic and novelist, Tim Treanor, debuts Dracula. A Love Story. at the Capital Fringe Festival, to be held today, July 10-27. A modern take of the Bram Stoker classic, Treanor's production company, Wry Productions, explores contemporary ideas about love and life set in Washington, DC, through this timeless drama.

Tonight, July 12 8 PM under a 'Full Thunder Moon' Central Works opens 'Dracula Inquest' at the historic Berkeley City Club.

This fall the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the final showing of the groundbreaking multimedia exhibition Hollywood Costume in the historic Wilshire May Company building

DanceXchange announces its new autumn season today, confirming its reputation for presenting ground-breaking and award winning dance. From 25 September to 29 November some of the industry's acclaimed choreographers will present their celebrated productions in DanceXchange's studio theatre, The Patrick Centre at Birmingham Hippodrome.

Starz has announced a script to series development of FremantleMedia North America's (FMNA) adaptation of Neil Gaiman's acclaimed urban fantasy novel 'American Gods.' The pilot script will be penned by Bryan Fuller ('Hannibal,' 'Pushing Daisies,' 'Heroes') and Michael Green ('The River,' 'Kings,' 'Heroes'), who will also showrun the series. They will executive produce along with Gaiman. FremantleMedia North America will produce the series.

Theater critic and novelist, Tim Treanor, debuts Dracula. A Love Story. at the Capital Fringe Festival, to be held July 10-27. A modern take of the Bram Stoker classic, Treanor's production company, Wry Productions, explores contemporary ideas about love and life set in Washington, DC, through this timeless drama.

From best-selling author and master of suspense Stephen King, comes the Lifetime Original Movie Big Driver, starring Golden Globe nominee Maria Bello

he Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the continuation of a summer tradition of showcasing great genre classics to beat the heat. Following the tradition of last summer's popular "Midnight Movies" series, each film in the new "Freaky Friday" series will kick off the weekend at 11pm and have the same weekly blend of mind-melting, gross-out horror as well as some rarely screened classic cult favorites in glorious 35mm, curated by Film Society programmer and Film Comment Editor Gavin Smith.

On July 12 8 PM under a "Full Thunder Moon" Central Works opens "Dracula Inquest" at the historic Berkeley City Club."Dracula Inquest" is a new play that brings Bram Stoker's iconic tale of horror to life, and promises to scare the crap out of you!

In 2013 Mark Bruce Company toured its darkly thrilling, critically acclaimed dance-theatre production DRACULA which won the company the prestigious South Bank Award for Dance. Including a four-week sellout run at London's glorious Victorian venue, Wilton's Music Hall, DRACULA also played to capacity audiences and universally excellent notices around the country.

IDW Entertainment and Entertainment One Television (eOne Television) announced today that V-Wars will be the first series project developed under the recently announced first-look co-production agreement.

The Utah Shakespeare Festival recently revealed its 2015 season, eight exciting and diverse comedies, musicals, tragedies, and histories running from June to October. Artistic Directors David Ivers and Brian Vaughn announced the season, which includes four Shakespeare classics, a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, a classic American farce, one of the world's greatest suspense thrillers, and the story of the famous composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

For the twelfth year in a row, the North Wildwood Beach Writers' Conference (NWBC), now in conjunction with Atlantic Cape Community College, brings together prestigious and inspiring speakers who discuss the craft of writing. This year, the dates are Tuesday, June 3, and Wednesday, June 4 and the location is the Wildwoods Convention Center, 4501 Boardwalk.