The “Tom (hearts) Becky” painted fence on Tom Sawyer Island in Magic Kingdom is the latest park location to be defaced in what appears to be a new guest trend. In what appears to be a growing guest ...

The famous “Tom (hearts) Becky” painted fence is now gone from Tom Sawyer Island at Magic Kingdom. The iconic fence was defaced just days before Tom Sawyer Island permanently closed. It was next to ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. -- The search is on to find Hannibal's next Tom and Becky. In fact, organizers of the annual Tom and Becky contest will be seeking five boys and five girls to portray Tom Sawyer and ...

“Ain’t Life Fine,” from “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” That devil-may-care attitude sums up what has made Mark Twain’s “Tom Sawyer” one of the most beloved juvenile characters in literature for 130 ...

With three songs cut and a strong new opening number added by the end of its first week (of two) in New Haven, Conn., "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" has been making good use of its pre-Broadway tryout ...

Mark Twain has had quite the year with “James,” a telling of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, winning a Pulitzer Prize and historian Ron Chernow releasing a biography about the author in May. But ...

Tom Sawyer was quite the little pickup artist. “D’ya like dead rats?” he says to the new girl in town, Becky Thatcher. She doesn’t, but she does take a shine to Tom, America’s pre-Bart Simpson symbol ...

Durn and double durn. It's hard not to admire the folksy eagerness with which "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," a new musical adaptation of the Mark Twain classic, wants to please. But an ingratiating ...