Charles Dickens News

Variety reports that actor Ron Moody, perhaps best known for his role as 'Fagin' in the Charles Dickens novel adaptation OLIVER!, has passed away at the age of 91.

Enjoy Shakespeare under the stars at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's Outdoor Stage production of Love's Labour's Lost. The enormously popular summer venue, located on the campus of the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morris Township, will host the show beginning on June 17th and continuing through July 26th.

Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) celebrates 75 years of song-and-dance filled summer nights with Oliver! The Musical and Hairspray - The Broadway Musical, running July 10 - August 22, 2015 at Stanley Park's picturesque Malkin Bowl. On alternating evenings, audiences will be transported to brisk, fog-strewn 1840s London or jaunty, sweltering 1960s Baltimore, as the cheery, boisterous casts dirty their clothes and tease their beehives for a full summer of open-air theatre.

Chester Theatre Company will open its 26th season at the Town Hall in Chester, MA with the East Coast premiere of THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS AND COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: DISCORD. This comedy of ideas, from Scott Carter, the Executive Producer of Real Time with Bill Maher, will run from June 24 through July 5.

?CPCC Summer Theatre happily announces its 42nd season of summer stock for the Charlotte Metrolina region in Summer 2015.

Award-winning theatre company Antic Disposition celebrate their 10th anniversary year with two special productions, performed in spectacular and historical site-specific locations in central London.

The critically acclaimed Victorian Horror Troupe PHANTASMAGORIA, in collaboration with AWP's Barefoot Playhouse, will premiere its new touring show, PHANTASMAGORIA "Wicked Little Tales" with a limited engagement weekend of 4 performances at AWP's Barefoot Playhouse, July 31, August 1 and 2. Performances are Friday, Saturday evenings at 7:30pm / Saturday, Sunday matinees at 2:00pm. Prices are $12.00 for students and $20.00 for general admission with a $5.00 per ticket add on for VIP guests. Tickets are on sale now at www.barefootplayhouse.com/shows-tickets/.

Laurel Valley Productions in association with Creative Arts Lab and Jeux de Mots presents TRAVELING PAPERS, a lively theatrical adventure exploring our connections to travel, conceived and adapted by Barbara Bosch and Martin Tackel. Barbara Bosch^ directs a cast of eight including Gwen Arment*, John Camera*, Kyle Doherty, Gwen Eyster, Peter Husovsky*, Macy Idzakovich, and Jillian Stevens. TRAVELING PAPERS will run at The Lion Theatre on Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street (bet. 9th and 10th Avenues), New York City for fifteen performances, tonight, June 3, through June 20, 2015. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Laurel Valley Productions in association with Creative Arts Lab and Jeux de Mots presents TRAVELING PAPERS, a lively theatrical adventure exploring our connections to travel, conceived and adapted by Barbara Bosch and Martin Tackel. Barbara Bosch^ directs a cast of eight including Gwen Arment*, John Camera*, Kyle Doherty, Gwen Eyster, Peter Husovsky*, Macy Idzakovich, Jillian Stevens, and Antonio Edwards Suarez*. TRAVELING PAPERS will run at The Lion Theatre on Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street (bet. 9th and 10th Avenues), New York City for fifteen performances, tonight, June 3, through June 20, 2015.

Synetic Theater will host a Pride Night in partnership with Freddie's Beach Bar at 555 23RD St. in Crystal City. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a pre-show reception and will continue at Synetic Theater with the 8 p.m. performance of Everett Quinton's Obie Award-Winning play A Tale of Two Cities, directed by Serge Seiden and starring Company Member Alex Mills.

  Centenary Stage Company brings a diversely eclectic and exciting array of productions to the Lackland Center for their 2015-16 season.  Now in their 6th season at the David and Carol Lackland Center, CSC is offering award winning plays, cutting edge dramas, family favorites and new developmental works sure to satisfy even the most discerning of audiences.  From young to old, experienced theater goer to never having stepped foot in a theater before, there's something for everyone at CSC this season.

Abingdon Theatre Company -- which has produced 85 new plays since 1994 -- concludes its 22nd Season with the world premiere of MALLORCA by two-time Emmy nominee Sheldon Bull ('Newhart'), with previews set to begin tonight, May 29, prior to an official press opening on June 7, in Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th Street). Donald Brenner (March Madness) directs this award-winning comedy set in New York City and Spain.

The Lakewood Playhouse presents the final show of its 76th season: DROOD - THE MUSICAL (Based on Unfinished Novel THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD by CHARLES DICKENS), adapted by Rupert Holmes. This Unique Musical is never the same twice as the Audience gets to Choose The Ending Every Show! Scroll down for a first look at the cast in action!

On June 17th New York's 'Best Story Hour' (The Village Voice Best of NY) steps out of the dollhouse and onto the stage with LIVING DOLLS! Join your favorite naked readers for an evening of stories, histories, memoirs and more about the transcendent toys and personified playthings that become 'real.' From the mundane to the macabre, from sweet to sinister, from childhood innocence to adult fetish: Naked Girls Reading celebrates the literature of the doll.  

The summer of 2015 is looking to be the best summer yet! This year's Summer lineup of theater is stellar! Take a look at my top 5 picks of Summer Theater that you should check out as you relax under the heat and soak up the sun!

The A TALE OF TWO CITIES songwriter is working on a new musical, IT HAPPENED IN KEY WEST, a dark love story based on the true account of Carl Von Cosel, an X-ray technician who attempted to cure a young Cuban patient and in the process fell in love with her, but after she died, he could not let go.

New York's 'Best Story Hour' (The Village Voice Best of NY) honors an iconic actor, dancer and songwriter with P.S. WE LOVE YOU: A Naked Girls Reading tribute to Patrick Swayze. Join your favorite naked readers for a literary celebration of this beloved 80's heartthrob with the novels that inspired his films; the philosophers that inspired his life; his memoirs, biographies, song lyrics and much much more!

Charles Dickens may not have completed his final novel, but theatre patrons in South Florida will soon have the chance to finish it themselves when Sol Children Theatre presents The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the Tony Award-winning musical, at Sol Theatre in Boca Raton from June 12 through June 28.

Overall, there's much to like about this production. The acting alone is worth the ticket price.

KRIS KRINGLE The Musical is a new Broadway-bound production being developed in Cleveland by New York's Angel Polar Bear LLC in association with Broadway's Creative Licensing Group, one of the producers of the Tony Award-nominated musical Little Women.