Count Dracula is one of the most enduring monsters in literature, which either is ironic or makes perfect sense, considering his immortality. Bram Stoker’s vicious yet refined vampire nobleman has weathered more than a century of rebirths and reimaginings—he’s spurred more interpretations than any other classical monster (there are more than 200 films based just on his story).
He is the pop-culture darling of the ages, a supernatural villain we love to fear in all his many forms. He’ll be breathed to life yet again when playwright Steven Dietz’s adaptation of the Stoker tale (which is the most produced version for the stage, and which Dietz wrote in the mid-1990s in Seattle) is revived and revised specifically for ACT Theatre, which is producing the play through November 17.
