Every time Book-It Repertory Theatre takes on a classic American novel, the company is treading on literary ground that’s sacred to many readers. But the necessity of reshaping prose to make it viable ...

Cather’s best-known work, My Ántonia, was first published in the fall of 1918; it remains required reading for many high schoolers today. The novel’s centenary is a fitting occasion to consider one of ...

My Antonia is the much-loved novel by American writer Willa Cather...a novel that is most celebrated as an intimate portrait of a prairie landscape. It's a story of the land and the seasons ... of a ...

In her 1995 New Yorker essay “Cather and the Academy,” critic Joan Acocella outlined, entertainingly, the vagaries of Willa Cather’s literary reputation. Short version: It slowly sank until the writer ...

Illusion Theater brought back its award-winning adaptation of Willa Cather’s beloved novel My Ántonia for a limited engagement this past weekend at the Cowles Center as well as a tour around Minnesota ...

2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities The childhood memories of narrator Jim Burden in Blackhawk, Nebraska are woven ...

This year Willa Cather’s early masterpiece, My Antonia, turns 100, but these days, thanks to the most explosive immigration crisis in American life since the Reagan era’s Immigration Reform and ...

Willa Cather, the great American author of "My Antonia," hated seeing her books turned into plays and movies. Appalled by "A Lost Lady," a 1934 Warner Bros. quickie, Cather wrote a clause into her ...

“Some memories are realities,” the narrator of Illusion Theater’s production of “My Antonia” tells the audience, “and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.” That line — like so ...

While adapting Willa Cather's "My Antonia" for Book-It Repertory Theatre, actor Annie Lareau met someone she hadn't seen in a very long time. She ran into her 11-year old self. As she thumbed through ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) -Acclaimed Nebraska novelist Willa Cather, who would have marked her 150th birthday in 2023, will be celebrated throughout the year with a series of events. The ...