They weren't kidding when they said Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby" is an epic story. "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby," now playing at Ohio Shakespeare Festival in Akron, is a 1980 ...

It was a bold move of the Chichester Festival Theatre to revive David Edgar’s famous two-part adaptation of Charles Dickens’ early novel in September 2006, and that production by Jonathan Church and ...

Those who seek a polar opposite to Michael Caine’s kind-but-firm patriarch Dr. Wilbur Larch in The Cider House Rules will find it in Jim Broadbent’s horrid, one-eyed headmaster, Wackford Squeers, in ...

Those who seek a polar opposite to Michael Caine’s kind-but-firm patriarch Dr. Wilbur Larch in The Cider House Rules will find it in Jim Broadbent’s horrid, one-eyed headmaster, Wackford Squeers, in ...

Roger Rees’s arrival on stardom’s doorstep is well marked in theater history: In 1982 he led the Royal Shakespeare Company, some 43 strong, onto the stage of the Plymouth Theater for a sprawling, ...

On the surface, Anne Hathaway and Charlie Hunnam embody very different spheres of Hollywood storytelling. The latter's well-known roles in action-packed projects like Sons of Anarchy and Pacific Rim ...

Among his numerous roles, Derrick Winger, front right, plays Folair, a member of an acting company, in "The Life and Acventures of Nicholas Nickleby" at Ohio Shakespeare Festival in Akron.

In the Dickens canon, Nicholas Nickleby is a piffle among stronger works. It has all the requisite Dickensian elements: the cruel gray brow of industry and circumstance meant to bring high men low, ...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1838) may be Charles Dickens’s greatest novel, but at 900 pages it’s a lot to dramatize—Trevor Nunn and David Edgar’s brilliant 1980 adaptation for the ...

Young Nicholas Nickleby, penniless after his father’s death, arrives in London seeking a way to care for his mother and sister. Their only hope is the Scrooge-like Uncle Ralph, who sends Nicholas away ...

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