Danny DeVito will be seeing an old friend this week in New Jersey. Harry Wormwood, crooked car salesman and terrible father, is taking his mint-green station wagon to State Theatre Friday for a ...

It must be a hoary truism that great, even beloved actors absolutely adore playing the most reprehensible characters imaginable. “Matilda,” the children’s novel by Roald Dahl, has served more than ...

These two inscrutable facts were on display Friday night in New Brunswick, as DeVito narrated a live concert performance of the 1996 film with the New Jersey Symphony. The 79-year-old actor, who ...

Now, The Fantastic Mr. Fox is unusual for a Roald Dahl story because its about animals, not children. As NPRs Elizabeth Blair reports, some of the best movie adaptations are made by filmmakers who ...

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At home Matilda, portrayed by 12-year-old Brielle Fisher of Wilkes-Barre, has to cope with her family, portrayed by John Bubul of West Pittston as her dad, Brooke Manley of Old Forge as her mom and ...