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Dracula is a stage play written by the Irish actor and playwright Hamilton Deane in 1924, then revised by the American writer John L. Balderston in 1927. It was the first authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker 's 1897 novel Dracula .
Dracula is an adaptation, first published in 1996, by American playwright Steven Dietz of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel by the same name. [1] Though it has never run on Broadway, the author lists it among his most financially successful works, and it is frequently performed near Halloween in regional and community theaters. [2]
Poster for a Federal Theatre Project production of Dracula in 1938. Deane's play premiered at the Grand Theatre, Derby in June 1924. [6] Despite critics' misgivings, the audiences loved it. With Raymond Huntley as the Count and Deane as Van Helsing, it was a huge success and toured for years. [7]
Dracula, also known as Bram Stoker's Dracula and Dan Curtis' Dracula, is a 1974 British made-for-television gothic horror film and adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. It was written by Richard Matheson and directed by Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis , with Jack Palance in the title role.
In 2006, he was named Broadway Play Publishing Inc.'s Playwright of the Year. B P P I has published his plays Dracula Rides Again, Larry and the Werewolf, Love Loves A Pornographer and Marley's Ghost. In 2007, he received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and the Back Stage Garland Award for his play Love Loves a Pornographer.
Against a chorus of howling wolves as he plays the piano, Dracula's first line in the film is: "Children of the Night, shut up!" When Nicolae Ceaușescu's Communist government of Romania ejects the Count from his ancestral home, he and Renfield go in search of the current incarnation of Mina Harker, Dracula's true love. This incarnation is a ...
Dracula is a 1979 gothic horror film directed by John Badham. The film starred Frank Langella in the title role as well as Laurence Olivier , Donald Pleasence and Kate Nelligan . The film was based on Bram Stoker 's 1897 novel Dracula and its 1924 stage adaptation , though much of Stoker's original plot was revised to make the film more ...
Dracula is a 1995 stage adaptation co-authored and by John Godber and Jane Thornton from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same title. Its world premier was at the Spring Street Theatre , home of Hull Truck Theatre at Kingston upon Hull , East Riding of Yorkshire .