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The world of children's books is as wildly varied as any other genre. There are good books, bad books, middling ...
Culture / A new play about Roald Dahl shows the now-controversial children’s writer in his flawed, complicated reality. Katha Pollitt There’s a lot to be said for not knowing much about your favorite ...
Review: In ‘The Witches’ Musical, the Playful and the Macabre A new stage adaptation in London does justice to the dark, comic sensibility of Roald Dahl’s beloved book.
PATRICK MARMION: I'm not that much of a fan of Dahl's often surreptitiously sour children's yarns. But that didn't stop me loving Lucy Kirkwood's brazen adaptation and staging of the book.
Now, granted creative access to another of Roald Dahl ’s best-loved, if more contentious books – 1983’s The Witches – the NT must be hoping it has struck gold with its little-expense ...
EXCLUSIVE: There’s some seriously scary stuff going on at London’s National Theatre as the venue prepares for a musical version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches that will feature book and lyrics ...
A musical version of Roald Dahl's 'The Witches' starring Katherine Kingsley is headed to London’s National Theatre with book and lyrics by Lucy Kirkwood.
A version of this article appears in print on March 5, 2023, Section SR, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: The Truth About the ‘Censorship’ of Roald Dahl.
Puffin has announced it will publish another edition of Dahl’s books without changes, but not before the writers' advocacy group, PEN America, exposed itself as a phony opponent of censorship ...