The chaotic scenes drew comparisons with the similarly ill-fated Fyre Festival. Here's a closer look at the event's biggest failures. It was meant to be a fun-filled day out for children who would be ...

“Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” hit movie screens nearly 50 years ago. However, there are still applicable teaching lessons for today, or least that was the hope of Wilmette Theatre officials ...

The Children’s Theatre of Long Beach is making its stage debut this week with Roald Dahl’s classic “Willy Wonka.” It’s a dream come true for CTLB Founder Sean McMullen, who has been working with a ...

In this scrumdidilyumptious musical, WIlly Wonka stages a world-wide contest by hiding golden tickets in five candy bars. These five lucky winners win a free tour of the Wonka factory and a lifetime ...

Come along on a sweet and magical musical tour of the mysterious Wonka Chocolate Factory as Children's Theatre of Elgin presents "Willy Wonka Jr." this weekend. Shows are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday ...

Every generation has their own set of shared pop culture frights. I grew up in the ’90s, so like every other latchkey kid riding high from that toxic combination of Squeezits and Dunk-a-roos (you ...

More than 40 local actors in first through third grade are appearing in the Wilmette Children’s Theater Minis Division production of “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka Kids.” The show is based on Dahl’s 1964 ...

Actor Johnny Depp dove headfirst into the character of Willy Wonka in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and he got his inspiration from watching children’s TV shows. Depp’s ...

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: it's a fun and enchanting film for all ages, with a cautionary moral tale to boot. What's not to love? Well, a lot, apparently. Sure, we know Gene Wilder's ...

. . . this bottle was NOT marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, ...