Fairy Tale Theater will open its season with “Sleeping Beauty.” This is live theater for children and by children, so there will be many opportunities for kids in the audience to join the ...

German authors the Brothers Grimm used the previous Sleeping Beauty folklore to write "Little Briar-Rose" ("Dornröschen"), which was included in their 1812 collection of fairy tales.

Tale Summary Perrault’s version of Sleeping Beauty is quite different from versions popular today. When the king and queen fail to invite an elderly fairy to their daughter’s Christening, she arrives ...

Tale Summary This classic tale of Sleeping Beauty follows the story of a young princess whose seven fairy godmothers, gifted her beauty, good thoughts, kindness, the ability to dance like a fairy, ...

Apr. 9—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A classic ballet based on a romantic fairy tale will be danced on an area stage. The Johnstown Concert Ballet will present its spring performance of "Sleeping Beauty ...

Fairy tale characters such as Puss in Boots and the White Cat will make appearances in the Hong Kong Ballet’s performance of The Sleeping Beauty for four days in October.

Beauty or ugliness is referred to in 94 percent of the Grimms' fairy tales, with evil characters often being described as ugly. In "Cinderella," the most reproduced of the Grimms' fairy tales ...

In November 2017, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported that the mother of a schoolboy who had brought home a copy of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty was calling for the text to be banned.

Premiered in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg and set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s paradisiacal score, “The Sleeping Beauty” is based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale that ...

VOD numbers are hard to come by, as studios only tend to release them when they're good, but we can extrapolate that other avenues are unlikely to yield much, as the movie this most compares to is ...