What kid wouldn’t love a trip to a chocolate factory? Well, any kid that saw Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, perhaps. Adapted from one of the most-adapted authors ever, the 1971 film ...

From Gene Wilder to Timothée Chalamet, take a look back at all of the actors who played the iconic character Alexandra Schonfeld is a features writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

That's not a knock on their performances, but rather a testament to how iconic Wilder's role in Mel Stuart's "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate ... start to fall over, then roll around, and then ...

The "Willy's Chocolate Experience" — a Willy Wonka-themed event — was depicted in online advertisements as “immersive" and promised to “create lasting memories and redefine what it means ...

Netflix has confirmed a Willy Wonka TV show, but it isn’t what some fans might have been expecting. Titled The Golden Ticket, the project is a competition series in which people will attempt to ...

Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket in a scene from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." Wolper/Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock Jeff Gaspin, the vice president of unscripted at Netflix, shared a ...

Nolan Anderson (left) as Charlie Bucket and Ally Nielsen as Willy Wonka in Washington Middle School’s production of “Willy ...

The veteran Northeast Ohio director is finally realizing a dream come true in helming the Cassidy Theatre’s production of “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka,” which appears weekends April 3-20 at ...