In the last 12 months in Britain alone, there have been stage versions at Wilton's Music Hall and the King's Head theatre in London, the eight-hour reading, Gatz, was staged by the American Elevator Repair Company last year to rave reviews, and the Northern Ballet's dance adaptation will open soon at Sadler's Wells.
A new prize called the Beyond Theatre award was won by the collaboration between the band, the Pet Shop Boys, and Venezuelan choreographer Javier de Frutos for The Most Incredible Thing – a full length dance adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story – at Sadler's Wells.
Over at Sadler's Wells, a creature with a pure heart and freakish appearance is scaring the cookie-cutter suburbanites of Matthew Bourne's visually alluring dance adaptation of the film "Edward Scissorhands".
Edward Scissorhands Matthew Bourne's dance adaptation of the Tim Burton movie is as idiosyncratically poetic as his settings of ballet classics.
On Saturday the Brooklyn Philharmonic, conducted by Brad Lubman, played Mr. Costello's hourlong ballet score, "Il Sogno" ("The Dream," written for a dance adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream") and then provided an orchestral penumbra for a core trio of Mr. Costello, Mr. Nieve and Greg Cohen on bass.
Edward Scissorhands is a contemporary dance adaptation of the 1990 American romance fantasy film Edward Scissorhands, created by Matthew Bourne, with music by Terry Davies.
But that's kids' stuff compared with The Winter's Tale, Wheeldon's dance adaptation of Shakespeare's "problem play", half Othello-like tragedy, half rom-com, premiered by the Royal Ballet in March.
Watson's amazing performance is the heart of Arthur Pita's stylish new dance adaptation of Kafka's surreal story.
The operatic and dance adaptations do not mention of the foreboding dreams the young lovers have of their doom; nor do they contain the riveting scene in which -- after he has ordered Juliet to marry Paris -- Lord Capulet Dan Hiattt) denounces his daughter for her shocking disobedience.
