W hat is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the ...

“Hold up your books,” said Miss Brodie quite often ... “But there was a Miss Jean Brodie in her prime.” She clutched the bars of the grille as if she wanted to escape from the dim ...

How a little-known stint working on anti-Nazi propaganda schooled The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’s author in the art of ...

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 ...

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. And though New ...

Lia Williams takes the title role in 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' at the Donmar Warehouse ... as he did for the iconic 1969 film adaptation of the book that earned Maggie Smith her first ...

Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play. A clumsy Broadway ...

Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. She introduces priviledge to her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy where she creates the 'creme de la creme' who become known as the ...

A splash of exoticism at the conservative Marcia Blaine's School for Young Girls in 1930s Edinburgh, Miss Jean Brodie (Smith) is very good at making her students -- the "Brodie girls" -- hers for ...

Based on the novel by Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie stars Maggie Smith in the title role. Smith won an Academy Award for her delicately textured portrayal of an eccentric teacher at ...