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The movie retells the story of Romeo and Juliet.
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Like the Grimm stories, there’s a way that Andersen’s seem to belong to the collective imagination—they’ve been told and retold.
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Oldman read the classic children’s story The Three Billy Goats Gruff, retold by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
The all-new show retells the story of the Greek zero to hero with modern music, larger-than-life numbers, extravagant costumes, and a stellar cast led by Cory Bradford as Hercules.
—Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
Like the two previous installments, on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers, Ed Gein retells in lurid—and largely fantastical—detail the legend of a notorious murderer, with the aim of discerning what our collective obsession with and inevitable misunderstanding of each case says about society.
—Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Oldman read the classic children’s story The Three Billy Goats Gruff, retold by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
The all-new show retells the story of the Greek zero to hero with modern music, larger-than-life numbers, extravagant costumes, and a stellar cast led by Cory Bradford as Hercules.
—Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
Like the two previous installments, on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers, Ed Gein retells in lurid—and largely fantastical—detail the legend of a notorious murderer, with the aim of discerning what our collective obsession with and inevitable misunderstanding of each case says about society.
—Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Retell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retell. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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