The Children’s Theatre Fantasy Orchard will present “Beauty and the Beast” and “Hansel and Gretel,” and AlphaBet Soup continues its series of fractured fairy tales with “Sleeping ...

and adapted by Alexis Scheer for a modern take on the classic fairy tale. While a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s more familiar Cinderella appeared on Broadway in 2013, Bad Cinderella ...

"Our research is on 'fractured fairy tales,'" Rudy said, "because the fairy tales that ... We long to be as kind as Cinderella, as patient as Belle and sometimes as grumpy as Grumpy. We get attached ...

Cinderella as a neurotic clean freak ... N’Ever After” that have added their own twists to the fractured fairy-tale world. None have done it with such ambition as the land of “Shrek ...

Into the Woods, now at WaterTower Theatre in Addison, and Brooklyn the Musical, on a national tour stop at the Music Hall at Fair Park, are tuneful fairy tales with twists (and shouts).