Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Based on the life of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man centers on a young ...

Adam Pearson, the actor who appeared in the Oscar-nominated dark comedy A Different Man, is set to star in a forthcoming adaptation of Bernard Pomerance’s Tony award-winning play, The Elephant Man.

From a desperate existence in a Victorian freak show to his days as the toast of London high society, the life of John Merrick, the Elephant Man, has fascinated the world for well over a century.

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, a month after David Lynch’s passing, we’re revisiting one of the iconic filmmaker’s great works that may have a ...

The public in Victorian England sees Merrick (Michael Wartella) as “a freak of nature.” In order to survive, says his huckster manager, Ross (E. Gray Simons III), Merrick “exposes himself to crowds ...

The IFC Center is mounting a revival of David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man” (1980) on the occasion of its recent 4K restoration — but also, one feels, as a nod to its director, who died earlier this year ...

Adam Pearson, who featured in A24’s comic noir “A Different Man,” is set to play the lead role of Joseph Merrick in “The Elephant Man,” a new feature film adaptation of Bernard Pomerance’s ...