Glendale's adventurous A Noise Within applies a nakedly theatrical, two-planks-and-a-passion treatment to Neil Bartlett's "Oliver Twist" adaptation, accruing a remarkable degree of the novel's ...

An absorbing new adaptation of “Oliver Twist” has its American broadcast debut tonight on the PBS series “Masterpiece Classic.” And it takes nothing away from this two-part TV miniseries to note it’s ...

What with all the brouhaha "Slumdog Millionaire" has stirred up - the denigration of India, the whole notion of "poverty porn" - it's good to get back to basics. "Oliver Twist" premieres tonight on ...

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist: Melodrama. Adapted from the novel and directed by Neil Bartlett. (Through June 24. Berkeley Repertory s Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. Two hours, 20 minutes.

Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago. Wednesday marked the 200 th anniversary of the birth of the British novelist Charles Dickens. As tribute after tribute has noted, Dickens was the most famous ...

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Sam Mendes is teaming up with Audible on a series of audio drama adaptations of Charles Dickens stories. 1917 and Skyfall director Mendes will serve exec producer on the three ...

From a reviewer’s perspective, something called “The Artful Dodger” is a no-lose prospect. Such a series will either be a creatively speculative exploration of one of the more memorable characters in ...

Charles Dickens, read by Martin Jarvis, BBC Audio, unabridged, 14 CDs, 16.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-6028-3876-5 The inimitable Martin Jarvis brings his talents to bear on Charles Dickens's classic in ...

Glendale's adventurous A Noise Within applies a nakedly theatrical, two-planks-and-a-passion treatment to Neil Bartlett's "Oliver Twist" adaptation, accruing a remarkable degree of the novel's ...