Louisa May Alcott

Germantown Community Theatre is staging a production of 'Little Women', the adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about the March sisters. The local news station covered the show, highlighting the community theatre's latest season offering in the Memphis suburb of Germantown, Tennessee, as it brings the beloved coming-of-age story to area audiences.

Eve LaPlante's 2012 biography "Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother" is drawing fresh attention from readers, who are rating it highly. The book paints a moving portrait of Alcott and her mother, Abigail May Alcott, the real-life "Marmee" of "Little Women," drawing on the Alcott family's letters and papers. Readers appear to be revisiting the title amid ongoing interest in Alcott and her family.

A production of "Little Women, the Musical" is being staged at Kelsey Theatre, bringing Louisa May Alcott's story of the March sisters to local audiences. The show is being promoted as a heartwarming tale of sisterhood, following the siblings' ambitions, romances and hardships in Civil War-era New England.