Bram Stoker News

STARZ and ENCORE are serving up a month-long Halloween feast, guaranteed to satisfy anyone with an appetite for frightful fun. STARZ, STARZ KIDS & FAMILY, ENCORE SUSPENSE and ENCORE FAMILY each offer a Halloween-centric slate in October.

The Greenville Little Theatre is delighted to present Dracula Bites, written by North Carolina playwright Duke Ernsberger in collaboration with his writing partner and mother, Virginia Cate. The comedy is about a small town production of Bram Stoker's Dracula that spirals out of control, heading for certain disaster as everything that can go wrong, does go wrong.

Brandywine Ballet presents DRACULA, by Nancy Page, Music by Various Artists, October 26-27, at Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall. For tickets and more information, visit: http://www.brandywineballet.com/201213performances/dracula.html

This third volume of the acclaimed Steampunk anthology series features an international cast of authors and a revolutionary take on the wonders of Steam. As steampunk continues to gain in popularity, these new tales and fresh tropes from established steampunk storytellers and new exciting talents reconcile Victorian pleasantries with passionate ideologies, reinvigorating the genre. Mad scientists, lethal assassins, and corseted adventuresses are joined by rebels from Haiti, literary squid, Karl Marx, and Bram Stoker. Rollicking adventures occur in the rugged frontiers of the West, the teeming cities of the Far East, the treacherous mountains of Iceland, and futures both dystopian and wondrous.

Each year in September, media professionals, reporters and editors alike, in both electronic and print formats, are challenged when preparing memorial coverage for the September 11 Terrorist Attacks. This event is perhaps the most significant episode in recent American history and deserves the annual review scheduled by news, feature and public interest programming. The question is how to present provocative conversation while maintaining respect for the 911 legacy. With the utmost respect for this tragic event, the American Repertory Theater of WNY, Inc is proud to be presenting the powerful and compelling The Guys, written by Anne Nelson, to start the 2012-13 season.

Each year in September, media professionals, reporters and editors alike, in both electronic and print formats, are challenged when preparing memorial coverage for the September 11 Terrorist Attacks. This event is perhaps the most significant episode in recent American history and deserves the annual review scheduled by news, feature and public interest programming. The question is how to present provocative conversation while maintaining respect for the 911 legacy. With the utmost respect for this tragic event, the American Repertory Theater of WNY, Inc is proud to be presenting the powerful and compelling The Guys, written by Anne Nelson, to start the 2012-13 season.

This October, Chiller gets into the spirit with two all-new premieres: original movie Dead Souls (Friday, October 12 @ 9pm) and original documentary The American Scream (Sunday, October 28 @ 8pm).

Today we are shining a special solo spotlight on one of the most revered actors of the stage and screen on the premiere of his newest feature film lead role, in ROBOT & FRANK - which recently received the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival - the incomparable Frank Langella.

Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein will present Fifth Third Bank's Dracula, playing in the Bingham Theatre at Actors Theatre of Louisville,September 14-October 31, 2012.

NBC and Sky Living today announced the co-production of DRACULA, a provocative new drama series version of the classic Bram Stoker novel starring Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers ('The Tudors,' 'Elvis') in the title role.

National Geographic Channel (NGC) today announced that actor Billy Campbell has been cast as Abraham Lincoln and actor Jesse Johnson will play John Wilkes Booth in the two-hour upcoming television film KILLING LINCOLN by Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free Productions.

Deadline reports that Billy Campbell will take on the role of one of America's most revered presidents, Abraham Lincoln, in National Geographic Channel's upcoming adaptation of the best-selling book KILLING LINCOLN.

The American Repertory Theater of WNY has announced its 2012-13 season with an exciting lineup filled with WNY debuts, an original musical and a tip o' the hat to Decision 2012. ART will also be operating out of new home as the sixth season will be producing five shows at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 16 Linwood Ave (corner of North Street), where the Allentown and Linwood districts connect.

The Ambassador Theatre Group's Lyceum Theatre in London hosted a special drinks reception to mark the Centenary Year of Bram Stoker's death on Friday, April 20. Celebrated Dracula historian Elizabeth Miller and members of the Stoker family flew in from the US for the event, where members of the Dracula Society, in conjunction with The Lyceum Theatre, raised a toast to the celebrated writer in the venue where he wrote the infamous Dracula. See photos from the event below!

Production has commenced in Canterbury, CT on Dead Souls, Chiller's all-new original movie slated to premiere in October 2012. Adapted from the novel by Bram Stoker Award Finalist Michael Laimo, the film is written by John Doolan and directed by Colin Theys; Andrew Gernhard and Zach O'Brien will produce for Synthetic Cinema International.

On Saturday, March 31, 2012, producer Ken Davenport (Godspell) will present a private industry reading of the new musical SOMEWHERE IN TIME, based on the 1980 Universal Motion Picture of the same name by Richard Matheson.

Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty announced today the theater's 2012-13 season, which will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater. DTC's 54th season will include three world premieres; two new musicals; the culmination of DTC's four-year Shakespeare cycle; and several nationally acclaimed plays making their North Texas debut.

On Saturday, March 31, 2012, producer Ken Davenport (Godspell) will present a private industry reading of the new musical SOMEWHERE IN TIME, based on the 1980 Universal Motion Picture of the same name by Richard Matheson.

Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein have announced the Actors Theatre's 49th season lineup. The 2012-2013 Brown-Forman Series, Waters' inaugural season at the helm, runs the gamut thematically from forbidden love and sibling rivalry to familial dysfunction and adolescent innocence in an exhilarating program sure to entertain, engage and delight audiences.