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Tom Robbins' novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" was made into a movie by Gus Van Sant in the early '90s. It bombed. Now, Jennifer Sue Johnson has adapted the novel into a play for Seattle's Book ...
Theater review by Misha Berson: Book-It Theatre's adaptation of the Tom Robbins classic "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" has some energetic performances but can't succeed in translating the literary ...
The theater of literary adaptations takes on the second novel of the Pacific Northwest's adopted son with Friday night's opening of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues." The story of Sissy Hankshaw, a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and ...
It's no longer so easy to believe, as Tom Robbins' proposed in his outrageous 1976 novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," in the inherent moral superiority of women. It's a myth Margaret Thatcher ...
Seattle's Book-It Theatre announces its 2008-09 season, with a strong slate of book-to-stage adaptations including Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," Tim Robbins' "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" and ...
Tom Robbins, ‘Even Cowgirls Get the Blues’ author who had ‘crazy wisdom,’ dies at 92 Published: Feb. 10, 2025, 7:33 a.m. Tom Robbins published eight novels and a memoir.
Five years later, his second book, “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” in which Sissy hitchhiked her way through a world of sex, drugs and mysticism, made him a cult favorite.