‘1984’ After a global atomic war, an omnipresent government, headed by the party leader Big Brother, persecutes individualism and uses public mind control to sustain their totalitarian rule.

In Orwell's nightmarish world of "1984," Winston Smith struggles with life in an alternative reality, where the authoritarian Big Brother government controls the populace with an ever-watchful eye.

It seems George Orwell's Big Brother never gets old — and he's still watching us. Right now, he's in Cambridge, Mass., where a theatrical adaptation of Orwell's novel 1984 is on stage at the ...

W ord that Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult might be signing on for Equals, the next movie from Like Crazy director Drake Doremus, dates all the way back to last October, when Deadline reported ...

The Waco Civic Theatre production of “1984,” an adaptation of Orwell's novel which opens a 3-performance run Friday, features 10 cast members and heavy use of the theater’s video screens.