Fire & Light Productions will open “The Mystery of Tom Sawyer” tonight. The show, written by late local theater icon Harvey Cocks, is an adaptation of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” in ...

It's time to say goodbye to an iconic piece of Walt Disney World. For decades, Tom Sawyer Island has offered guests a tranquil, tree-canopied respite from crowds and a cornucopia of caves and other ...

The days are numbered for Tom Sawyer Island, a longtime Frontierland feature, at Magic Kingdom. In August, Disney announced that the space would be repurposed for two “Cars”-themed attractions. It ...

A big weekend in Hannibal with National Tom Sawyer Days officially wrapped up on Sunday. The 48th annual arts and crafts festival in Central Park was one of the headliners on the final day of ...

First, parts of DinoLand, U.S.A., then Muppets Courtyard. Now, another iconic corner of Walt Disney World has shuttered. Sunday, July 6 was the last operating day for Tom Sawyer Island, Liberty Square ...

Disney World will close Tom Sawyer Island and its famed Liberty Square Riverboat to make way for new attractions. Millions of guests visit the Orlando resort a year, with the Magic Kingdom the most ...

The future “Cars” attractions at Magic Kingdom will be built on Tom Sawyer Island, and the planned villains land will be in the “beyond Big Thunder” area of the theme park, Walt Disney World announced ...

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 ...