In kind, variants of the Cinderella story, which is among the oldest and most universal of all fairy tales, include both a wicked stepmother and a magical mother. As a precursor to the fairy ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty. "There's only one Cinderella, the rest of us are the ugly stepsister." ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.

The Dolphin Show’s “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella”‘ woos the audience with charm and childhood nostalgia. It feels ...

Reimagining Cinderella as a horror-comedy about the misery women endure to be attractive in the hopes of catching men’s eyes, ...

The Ugly Stepsister takes viewers to an enchanted kingdom in which impossible standards of female beauty lead to graphic ...