Ella Hickson’s adaptation of JM Barrie’s classic “Peter Pan”, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed by Jonathan Munby, imagines the story with a focus on Wendy. It is a feminist ...

Peter Pan is never short on darkness. With its child-hating Captain Hook, ominously skulking crocodile, and wistful musings on the pains of growing up, there is plenty of grime beneath the fairy dust.

From Dec. 4 to Jan. 1, Northern Stage in White River Junction, Vt. will present the play “Peter & Wendy,” a modern reimagination of J.M. Barrie’s novel “Peter Pan” set in 1999 in New York City.