Why can’t real life be more like a fairy tale? In the real world, all we got are Crocs, sleepless nights, and random dudes ...

Trung Le Nguyen is probably already one of your favorite artists. The stunning illustrator has built a huge following online sharing their instantly recognizable art with the world. If you’re a fan of ...

Manelle Oliphant is an artist and children's book author and illustrator from Salt Lake City. Her love of art and stories began with the books and shows she enjoyed as a child, from the Chronicles of ...

There are good things in the animated musical fantasy, “Strange Magic”: the ultra-detailed, photo-realistic animation; the name-that-tune pleasures of a mash-up-jukebox soundtrack; fine vocal ...

Trung Le Nguyen’s “The Magic Fish” and Jerry Pinkney’s “The Little Mermaid” recast the classics. By Jen Wang THE MAGIC FISH By Trung Le Nguyen THE LITTLE MERMAID By Jerry Pinkney Like most American ...

Children around the world love fairy tales. These stories of magic and monsters, handsome princes and damsels in distress, capture the imagination and open the mind to possibilities. To grown-ups, ...

Toss aside 200-plus years of productions and a century of recordings of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote” ("The Magic Flute") and add a giant, a snake puppet, roller skates, kites and other unexpected bits ...

You know the story. It’s the one with the magic beans. The lost slipper. The suspiciously hairy grandma. It’s the one where they lived happily ever after, until they didn’t. It’s “Into the Woods,” and ...

Zipes might argue that its truth stems from an engagement with its conditions of origin. As he has persuasively shown, both in his most recent book and in many previous ones, the tales reflect the ...

Many feel like Disney has lost its magic touch over the years. Their focus on live-action remakes and prioritizing money over risk-taking in their stories has led to a pretty big slump. What could ...

Strange Magic is strange all right, but hardly magical. An oddly tone-deaf jukebox musical and computer-animated fantasy (** out of four; rated PG; opens Friday nationwide), its target audience seems ...