Fairy tales are the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich of children’s theater. They are a delicious, satisfying, comforting staple of the repertoire that children never grow tired of enjoying. Y… ...

The title card at the beginning of the movie — “THIS IS A TRUE STORY. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987” — is completely false, but nobody seems to have told ...

When I was a kid, I used to love the “Fractured Fairy Tales” shorts that appeared on the Rocky and Bullwinkle animated TV show. They took classic fairy tales, like Sleeping Beauty, and added a ...

When Robert Komendera was a kid, one of his favorite parts of the “Rocky and Bullwinkle” cartoons was the fractured fairy tale, a retelling of classic fairy tales with plot and/or character ...

Chatham Community Players’ Fantasy Theater will present “Fractured Fairy Tales,” four original family-friendly one-acts, on Jan. 22 and 23 at 1 and 4 p.m. at the Chatham Playhouse 23 North ...