There was once upon a time a peasant who wished very badly for a child, so badly he would even be happy with a hedgehog. His wife told him that he had cursed them as she bore a child that was hedgehog ...

She will outlive all of us, and we’ll merely be a fairy tale, a blip on her history. Most movies don’t reckon with the older, more mythical stance we held with nature in generations past, but ...

Decades before that, the creators of “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show” animated a popular segment by doing the same thing – they called it “Fractured Fairy Tales.” Now comes the playwright James Stover, ...

A couple has everything they want but a child. Comyns’s version of “The Juniper Tree,” unlike the fairy tale, ends with a nod toward the possibility of redemption, and it’s told in the ...

If you've only come across fairy tales courtesy of Walt Disney ... and sprinkled them with salt." "The Juniper Tree" goes even further. A wicked stepmother kills her husband's young son so ...

The contemporary idea of the fairy tale can be traced to 1812 ... the Grimms' original stories are packed with violence and sex: "The Juniper Tree" features a stepmother killing her stepson ...

The boundary-breaking company adapted its play from Alissa Nutting’s modern retelling of the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale “The Juniper Tree,” in which a mother kills her stepson and feeds ...

But in a fairy ... the Tree, and the company's spring production, The Brother and the Bird, adapts a short story by Alissa Nutting, which was based on the Brothers Grimm's "The Juniper Tree ...

After their mother died and their father was remarried to an evil woman, a brother and sister ran away to find a better life. When they woke up the next morning after a day’s travels, the boy was very ...