Lewis Carroll News

Turkeys are on-sale at your local supermarket, so there's no better way to know Thanksgiving is just around the corner - yep, less than two weeks away! - which means that local theater companies will be unleashing their holiday season productions with enough productions of A Christmas Story (both the musical and the play), It's A Wonderful Life and Ebenezer Scrooge-led shows that you could shake a stick at!

South County High School Theatre department prepares to bring the community more comic relief at the start of this festive season, with the presentation of its fall production of Jabberwock at Dale S. Rumberger Auditorium, November 12-14.

A new small-scale display will be in-residence at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery fromSaturday 14 November which marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland.

Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell and the Shaw Festival announce principal casting and the creative teams for the 2016 playbill. The 2016 season features new and core ensemble members and beloved returning artists celebrating Ms. Maxwell's final season and 14-year tenure at The Shaw.

Disney Studios has shared an all-new teaser for ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. The film featuers an all-star ensemble cast including Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen

Yale Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of PEERLESS by Jiehae Park, directed by Margot Bordelon, November 27-December 19 at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street). Opening Night is Thursday, December 3. The cast of PEERLESS includes Teresa Avia Lim, Christopher Livingston, Caroline Neff, JD Taylor, and Tiffany Villarin.

Disney Studios wanted to remind us all to set our clocks back over the weekend, and what better way than with a first glimpse via Twitter of ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS featuring Alice 'falling back'.

On December 4, The Sherman Playhouse will open their family-friendly Holiday production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

In a rare instance of an independent, print-on-demand novel series signed straight to network, Ovation, America's only arts network, has inked Joel Eisenberg and Steve Hillard, creators of the eight-volume fantasy saga The Chronicles of Ara

Sometimes it seems there is so much theater happening that it's difficult to keep track of it all. From personal experience, despite all the datebooks, smart phones, tablets, desktop computers and laptops...it's hard to keep everything straight in this wacky business of the show.

Variety reports that Ovation TV has signed a development deal with fantasy novelists Joel Eisenberg and Steve Hillard in an effort to continue to push original content.

Rogue Machine presents the World Premiere of Ovation Award winning playwright Jonathan Caren's NEED TO KNOW, directed by Bart DeLorenzo and opening at 7pm Sunday, October 25, 2015.

Imagination soars and laughter and awe abound in 'Lookingglass Alice,' Chicago's gravity-defying hit inspired by Lewis Carroll's beloved stories. With breathtaking theatricality and surreal acrobatics, this wonderland is one you won't want to miss. Adapted and Directed by David Catlin

Synetic Company Member Kathy Gordon was born in Oxford, England and grew up among the places that inspired Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND. The actress now brings her childhood familiarity with that world to the title character in Synetic Theater's 2015/16 season opener ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

One thing is certain, when the lights go down in the Synetic Theater space, they will not come up on the expected; the imaginative company's signature is their unique and creative approach to storytelling on stage. They are known for their physicality and elaborate staging (you might have already experienced one of their silent productions; particularly memorable is The Tempest in 2013), and ALICE IN WONDERLAND is classic Synetic. Alice in Wonderland is one of those tales that lends itself to as many interpretations as there are people who read/hear/see it, and is thus fertile ground for the stage. 

Third Rail Projects' critically acclaimed production of THEN SHE FELL will celebrate its 3-year anniversary on October 6 -- which also marks its 1,704th performance. This immersive theater event is inspired by the life and writings of Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). It is written, directed, designed and choreographed by Zach Morris, Tom Pearson and Jennine Willett in collaboration with The Company. Performances take place at The Kingsland Ward at St. Johns, a century-old institutional building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that allows the action to play out on 3 floors. Tickets are now on sale through December 30, 2015.

Carly Bawden will go virtual as 'Alice' in Damon Albarn (music) and Moira Buffini's (book & lyrics) WONDER.LAND, helmed by Rufus Norris at the National Theatre this autumn. 

Nominees for the 2015 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards were announced on Thursday, September 24 on @ This Stage Magazine [ThisStage.la]. This year's Ovation Awards ceremony will take place Monday, November 9 at the Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center. The curtain will rise at7:30pm.