Charles Dickens News

ll tickets to the 2013-2014 Clarence Brown Theatre season go on sale today, August 5. Tickets can be purchased online at clarencebrowntheatre.com or by phoning or stopping by the Box Office. The Box Office number is (865) 974-5161 and it opens at noon.

The Denver Center Theatre Company will begin selling single tickets to the upcoming 2013/14 season today, August 5.

The Onewhero Society of Performing Arts (OSPA) will be bringing Playing Miss Havisham to the stage tonight, 4 August at 8pm, courtesy of Arts on Tour NZ and Willow Productions.

The Onewhero Society of Performing Arts (OSPA) will be bringing Playing Miss Havisham to the stage on 4 August at 8pm, courtesy of Arts on Tour NZ and Willow Productions.

All tickets to the 2013-2014 Clarence Brown Theatre season go on sale Monday, August 5. Tickets can be purchased online at clarencebrowntheatre.com or by phoning or stopping by the Box Office. The Box Office number is (865) 974-5161 and it opens at noon.

Today in 1965, Oliver! opened at the Martin Beck Theatre, where it ran for 64 performances. Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. It premiered in the West End in 1960, enjoying a long run, a successful Broadway production in 1963 and further tours and revivals. It was made into a musical film in 1968. Major London revivals played from 1994-1998 and again from 2009-2011.

New York's 'Best Story Hour' (The Village Voice Best of NY) celebrates the voice of a generation this month at Naked Girls Reading ROCK & ROLL. The hit nude literary salon shares memories of days in the studio and nights on the road, hard-rock biographies, musical memories, and some of the lyrics that make up the soundtrack of our lives.

Sheffield Theatres announces today the four local boys set to play Oliver and the Artful Dodger in the company's Christmas musical, Lionel Bart's multi award-winning masterpiece Oliver!, which will take to the Crucible stage from Friday 29 November 2013 to Saturday 25 January 2014.

The BTCT presents the solve-it-yourself musical comedy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, on August 20th & 22th at 7:00 pm, and matinee performances on August 18th and 25th at 2:00 pm. All performances will take place at the Mintzes Theatre/H. Morton Rosen Arts Center, located at Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School at 3300 Old Court Road in Pikesville, Maryland.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the gift of the Abe and Charlotte Levitow Collection featuring animation art and related production materials documenting the career of animator Abe Levitow.

The 10-play season includes four exhilarating world premieres selected from the 2013 Colorado New Play Summit. Karen Zacarias' adaptation of Helen Thorpe's book Just Like Us, Catherine Trieschmann's comedy The Most Deserving, Matthew Lopez's heartfelt The Legend of Georgia McBride and Marcus Gardley's adaptation of Homer's epic poem, black odyssey, will all take to the stage to dazzle Denver audiences. Also selected for the season is a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, an adaptation of a Marx Brother's script, Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece, a powerful and poignant love story and the return of a Christmas classic.

For the first time ever, Terence Rattigan and John Gielgud's stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities will be produced on stage, directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher and opening at the King's Head Theatre on 25 September for a limited season, ending on 19 October.

Continuing its 165-year history of offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected, Hammacher Schlemmer introduces The 100 Greatest Classics Audio Book, a palm-size device that plays 100 of the greatest works of literature, already stored on the device.

For the first time ever, Terence Rattigan and John Gielgud's stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities will be produced on stage, directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher and opening at the King's Head Theatre on 25 September for a limited season, ending on 19 October.

Charles Dickens wrote a good few popular novels, most of which have been dramatised many times and a few of which have been turned into musicals. Perhaps the best know of these is Lionel Bart's Oliver!

To celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, the G&S Society are staging a new production of the classic musical OLIVER! Helmed by the multi-award winning production team of David Lampard (director / designer) and Peter Johns (musical director) the production boasts of cast of 50, including a collection of Adelaide's most talented up and coming youngsters - and one dog.

Theatre Planners presents Greeks 6 - Trojans 5, a world premiere comedy with music written by Chuck Faerber, directed by Rick Kuhlman, similar in style and spirit to 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' but whackier, involving Greek soldiers embedded in the fabled Trojan Horse. Although set in the ancient world, Greeks 6 - Trojans 5 is a hilarious, eccentric, and irreverent send-up of modern warfare, technology, and mores (yes - mores!). The play previews Saturday, August 10th at 8pm. Runs: August 11 - September 8. Saturdays at 8pm. Sunday Matinees at 3pm. Buy Tix/info: www.plays411.com or (323) 960-7774. Whitefire Theatre 13500 Ventura Blvd Sherman Oaks 91423.

New York's 'Best Story Hour' (The Village Voice Best of NY) returns to outer space for more in-the-buff readings of science-fiction classics, as Naked Girls Reading NYC presents THE RETURN OF SCI-FI STRIKES BACK IV: Naked Girls Reading: Resurrection. After three successful missions bringing stripped-down sci-fi to packed houses, the hit nude literary salon launches an all-new evening of time travel, bug-eyed monsters, metal men from beyond the stars, and much much more.

Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood New Jersey announces some great new shows that you won't want to miss! Get ready for SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY, Friday, November 15, 2013 at 8PM, Los Lobos Wednesday December 4, 2013, Angelina Ballerina Sunday December 15th at 1PM and A Christmas Carol on Saturday December 21 at 8PM then on Thursday January 23, 2014 its Chazz Palmentieri - A Bronx Tale and Reserve tickets at Ticketmaster.com or at the box office at 201 227 1030 or visit the box office at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey!