The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Raleigh Little Theatre Through March 1 In the latest issue of The Believer, Brock Clarke has a piece on the use of artifice and metafiction in Muriel Spark’s novels ...

Lia Williams takes the title role in 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' at the Donmar Warehouse, a new adaptation of Muriel Spark's enduring novel written by David Harrower ('Blackbird') and directed ...

This story is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which began as Muriel Spark’s 1961 novel, a work playwright Jay Presson Allen adapted for stage in 1966.

In Brief: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie hasn't quite retained the allure it had in 1969, but neither is it easily dismissed. It snagged an Oscar for Maggie Smith, which was a good thing, and ...

Although Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie could certainly make for a fine play, Jay Presson Allen's stage adaptation is better served when treated as a star vehicle.

Actors who played the role of Citizen, Girl Guide, Schoolgirl, etc.: Brooks Morton,Celia Watson,Deidre Moore,Donna Conforti,Doreen Miller,Gerard Russak,Jack Knight ...

She stands at the center of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” which began life as a 1961 Muriel Spark novel before Jay Presson Allen adapted it for the stage, then the screen, Maggie Smith ...

“Colour enlivens the spirit,” says Miss Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith), tossing a supremely audacious smile at the frumpy principal (Celia Johnson) of Marcia Blaine school in Edinburgh, 1932. But ...

Theatre in the Round’s staging of Jay Presson Allen’s play The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a rare treat. Dann Peterson directs a well-paced production with some excellent performances. Allen’s play ...

Miss Brodie is a teacher of iron whim and blowtorch fervor. She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto are forever making her break out of ...