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 ...

Stripped right back to its bones in David Harrower’s finely fileted text, cut from Muriel Spark’s 1961 novel, the Donmar Warehouse’s new production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie offers an ...

She stands at the center of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” which began life as ... the art teacher who may be a one-time lover and the music teacher with whom she becomes an emotional ...

Watching the Studio Theatre's revival of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, I was reminded of Norma ... that would attract a marriage proposal from music teacher Gordon Lowther (Richard Stirling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...