Shrek show to close on Broadway Oct 23, 2009
Shrek, based on the children's book by William Steig, is one of the most successful animated films of all time and tells the story of an ogre with a heart of gold. A fourth Shrek film is scheduled to be released in 2010, and a touring production of the musical is to begin next July in Chicago. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Review: 'Wild Things' kind of tepid Oct 17, 2009
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1970) By William Steig. Many Moons (1944) By James Thurber. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Best Movie Adaptations of Children'... Oct 14, 2009
An Oscar winner for best animated feature, Shrek is based on the fractured fairytale by William Steig. Most of the jokes, satirizing the fairytale genre and Disney conventions, fly straight over the heads of the young audience, but are a hit with adults. (Suite101.com)
Where the wonder goes Oct 4, 2009
Shrek is the model: A slender and amusingly contrarian tale about a stinky ogre, drawn with William Steig s patented wobbly lines, the Dreamworks film became a slick CGI franchise featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz. The Shrek movies are well done: witty and fast and occasionally even subversive in a way that children and Steig might salute. (Boston Globe)
B'way ticket availability through Sunday, May 24 May 18, 2009
"Shrek The Musical." DreamWorks' cinematic green ogre makes it to the stage in this show based on the movie and the William Steig book. Broadway. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
