Owen Wister News

Due to overwhelming response to January's limited run, Burbank's Colony Theatre is bringing back the critically acclaimed 2018 LA production of The Diary of Anne Frank.

With support from the Rosenthal Family Foundation, the critically acclaimed 2018 Los Angeles production of The Diary of Anne Frank will return for a special limited engagement at Burbank's Colony Theatre. The revival, which garnered international attention with its predominately LatinX cast, will run for three performances January 19 & 20, 2023.

City Lit Theater will open its 41st season with the world premiere adaptation of THE VIRGINIAN: A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS. Owen Wister’s novel, published in 1902, is said to have established the Western genre of narrative fiction and the cowboy ideal as an American icon.

City Lit Theater has re-announced programming for its 41st year of production, according to Producer and Artistic Director Terry McCabe. The 2021-22 subscription season will open with a world premiere adaptation – THE VIRGINIAN: A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS.

Written, produced and performed by Derek Evans, Teddy Roosevelt: The Man In The Arena, is a one act celebration of Theodore a?oeTeddya?? Roosevelt's extraordinary impact on America. The show runs from March 12 a?" April 19 at The Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. The performance schedule is Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Opening/press night is Thursday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. The current running time is approximately 75 minutes with no intermission. Tickets are $35 and are available at The Greenhouse Theater Center's box office, 773.404.7336 or visiting GreenhouseTheater.org.

After a sold out run last fall, the recent revival of The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman ('97 Broadway version) will return for a limited engagement previewing January 11, 2019.

ENCAMPMENT, Wyo., Feb. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ Lucia St. Clair Robson, whose 1982 historical novel 'Ride the Wind' won the Spur Award and remains in print 34 years after its publication, will receive the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature.

They met on the battlefields of Vicksburg.General Ulysses S. Grant, George Armstrong Custer, and the Rebel Johnny Yuma. Three men united by fate—in a nation divided by war—they were dedicated to freedom, driven to extremes, and destined for greatness...