Opera Gone Wild The experimental season opens with Mozart in English and sets by Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are.

Mr. MAURICE SENDAK (Author, "Where the Wild Things Are"): I didn't want them to be traditional monsters, like griffins and gorillas and such like. I wanted them to be very, very personal.

It was later made into a film and brought to life onstage as an opera. Sendak wrote and illustrated 20 books, including “The Nutshell Library” (1962), “In the Night Kitchen” (1970) and ...

Where the Wild Things Are is the first feature film directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) in seven years. It is also quite possibly his most satisfying to date.

He is best known for his book, “Where the Wild Things Are.” It tells the story of a boy named Max, who dresses in a white wolf costume and escapes his life at home by sailing to a remote land ...

Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" is a book that not even the most gifted or ruthless editor could improve. Not a word, not a step, not an image goes wrong. You can't say the same for Sp… ...

Hipsters, rejoice! Director Spike Jonze’s much-anticipated Where the Wild Things Are has finally found a new release date. The big-screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s ...

Spike Jonze’s film of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, substitutes pop psychology for Sendak’s exuberant, anarchic vision of childhood. Sendak’s hero is a boy named ...