The Grapes of Wrath News

Democracy was not a spectator sport yesterday when actor Matt Damon and Howard Zinn, a historian and professor, spoke at Cooper Union's Great Hall about their upcoming documentary, "The People Speak." The event, called "The People Speak Live," was hosted by NYU, Cooper Union and the History Channel.

At the opening of the Melbourne International Film Festival people were drinking, laughing, joking and wondering where on earth he was.

The Cabrillo College Theater Arts Department proudly inaugurated its stunning new Crocker Theater with an appropriately exceptional choice of material: John Steinbeck's incomparable "The Grapes of Wrath," adapted for the stage by Frank Galati.

The question of where the old Route 66 officially ended in the West has been the subject of debate among history buffs and roadsters.

A benefit auction for Jerry Moak of Rayville has been rescheduled for 5 p.m. Nov.

The cast for Cabrillo College’s production of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ includes, from left, Caber Russell, Tom Goldrup, Michael Gomes, Katia Burke, Leah Creatura and Jaye Wolfe Before the rehearsal, the cast and crew of "The Grapes of Wrath" thought about hard times, drought, the idea of family -- and about having an excellent space to ...

Turner Classic Movies airs classic films based on the work of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist John Steinbeck throughout the evening of Tuesday, November 3. The night begins with the big three, "East of Eden," "The Grapes of Wrath," and "Of Mice and Men," which combined for 15 total Oscar nominations, three of which were winners.

While watching live news feed updates on Facebook the other day, I was suddenly reminded of the time I read "The Grapes of Wrath." Veiled concern weighed on one post after another.

Bette Moore's vintage clothing store has been a mainstay on Madison's Main Street for 28 years.

The marvelous thing about John Steinbeck -- which you realize whether you read a grand work like "The Grapes of Wrath" or a more modest creation like "Of Mice and Men" -- is his unwavering authenticity of language and purpose.

It's not just that John Steinbeck 's 1939 novel is a Pulitzer Prize -winning masterpiece.

"Spike Heels" will open tonight at Cal Poly Pomona, one of two plays set to be put on by the university's Theatre Department in the next month.

A challenging play for challenging times, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' epically and expertly staged by the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, shoves our current recession into sobering perspective.

Louisiana Tech's Theatre Deparment is presenting 'The Grapes of Wrath' as the first show of the season.

Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain't no good and they die out, but we keep on coming.

Pioneer Library System is preparing to participate in the National Endowment for the Arts' The Big Read for 2011, the largest federal reading program in U.S. history.

The Great Depression has rolled off many a pundit's tongue of late as we strain to make sense of the current economic meltdown.

On Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2009, congressman Barney Frank appeared opposite Ralph Nader on "The Ed Schultz Show." When Nader questioned Frank's far-left bona fides, Frank quickly responded, "we are trying on every front to increase the role of government." This is what today's liberal movement has become.

I don't want to read about the Gosselins anymore. They bore me. They aren't news.

The final pages of Morris Dickstein's monumental panorama of the 1930s, Dancing in the Dark , present a neat analogy between The Wizard of Oz, the Hollywood fantasy film released in 1939, and The Grapes of Wrath , John Steinbeck's grim novel of rural poverty, published to popular acclaim the same year.