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 the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Set in 1930s Scotland, the play tells the story of a headstrong, passionate, ...

The play "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Jay Presson Allen was authored in 1966, and is based upon a 1961 novel by Muriel Spark. It concerns the relationship of an unmarried teacher to her pupils ...

In playing the lead in Viterbo University’s production of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” Katarina Vandlik is walking in the footsteps of giants. Vanessa Redgrave originated the role of Jean Brodie, ...

Early in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the 1969 film starring Maggie Smith in an Oscar-winning performance, Smith stands in front of a classroom of young teenage girls and informs them that they are ...

“She always looks so extreme,” a fellow teacher observes of Maggie Smith’s trademark rigidity in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969), putting her finger on the straight-backed, nose-high hauteur ...

Frustrated by students she perceives as provincial and unwilling to marry her wealthy suitor, George Jenkins, Miss Brodie seeks an appointment at the elite Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss ...

When actor Maggie Smith died in late September, the media highlighted memorable clips from her long screen career. The witty dowager, the professor of sorcery, glimpses of Shakespearean scenes. No ...