Vanessa Severo hadn’t planned to write a whole new version of “Dracula.” That is until three years ago, when the Kansas City-based theater artist took her one-woman show about Frida Kahlo to ...

Besson emphasizes the gothic but jettisons the horror of this gothic-horror landmark, reveling instead in pageantry and debauchery.

Leo Fez (Mina) and Katherine Nash (Lucy) in "Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors." Credit: Robert Wachala/convergence-continuum. There are so many vampire stories out there that you’d assume that we’d ...

Luc Besson’s 2026 movie adaptation Dracula seems to be based largely on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. To clarify, I do not mean Besson’s movie was inspired by Stoker’s classic 1897 horror novel: On the basis ...