Audience members curious to see how the Port Tobacco Players have presented the hideously deformed body and face of John Merrick -- "The Elephant Man" -- may, at first sight of the actor portraying ...

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3 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere The Elephant Man is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed ...

The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in "The Elephant Man," terrify them in "Alien," and spoof that very same scene in "Spaceballs," has died. He was 77. Hurt, who ...

Amidst the many weird and wonderful characters from the late, great David Lynch’s filmography – Dennis Hopper going manically OTT in Blue Velvet, an eyebrow-less Robert Blake being phenomenally ...

From a desperate existence in a Victorian freak show to his days as the toast of London high society, the life of John Merrick, the Elephant Man, has fascinated the world for well over a century.

STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. — If durability defines the worth of a play, “The Elephant Man” by Bernard Pomerance is, at the very least, a good play, and possibly a great one. The production offered by ...

The public in Victorian England sees Merrick (Michael Wartella) as “a freak of nature.” In order to survive, says his huckster manager, Ross (E. Gray Simons III), Merrick “exposes himself to crowds ...

If durability defines the worth of a play, “The Elephant Man” by Bernard Pomerance is, at the very least, a good play, and possibly a great one. The production offered by Barrington Stage Group in ...