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 ...

Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school ...

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, ...

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 ...

This guy Dickens seems to be one of Hollywood's busiest writers. Probably no author besides Shakespeare has had so many works produced for film and television as Charles Dickens, whose latest screen ...

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.

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 ...