Charles Dickens News

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.

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.

Two of Britain's best loved actors, Felicity Kendal and Simon Callow, are set to star in the bittersweet classic comedy Chin-Chin, playing two very different people who have one thing in common - the affair that exists between their spouses!

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!

Classic musicals, comedy and drama are all on the lineup for the 2014 Hershey Area Playhouse season including: The Fantasticks, February 13-16, 20-23, 2014; Leading Ladies , April 24-27, May 1-4, 2014; Gypsy, July 17-20, 24-27, 2014, Ten Little Indians, October 9-12, 16-19, 2014 and A Christmas Carol (Traditional), December 4-7, 11-14, 2014.

Love Quotes Library, a website that offers visitors an unrivaled array of relationship quotes, is pleased to reveal its recent launch. To celebrate its unveiling, the website has added a brand new set of love quotes to its collection.

The Harbor Lights Theater Company is pleased to announce its much anticipated production of Lionel Bart's classic - Oliver! - the tale of the orphan who dared ask for more, based on the beloved novel by Charles Dickens. Check out a first look below!

Single tickets for Hartford Stage's 50th Anniversary Season, are now on sale as of today, July 15, with 'Christmas in July' special offers on tickets purchased through July 31.

SECONDSTORY REPERTORY announced THEATER FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES SEASON 15, including these one hour, family friendly, musicals are perfect for school aged children.

SecondStory Repertory has announced the shows for their MAINSTAGE SERIES SEASON 15. Season Subscriptions are now On Sale Now For 20% Off Regular Price.

ACT - A Contemporary Theatre announces a jam packed summer and fall with shows that cover a broad range of theatre. Finishing out the Mainstage season with three powerhouse Seattle Premieres, ACT presents Gina Gionfriddo's Pulitzer Prize finalist Rapture, Blister, Burn; followed by Will Eno's Middletown; and closing with Sir Alan Ayckbourn's American Premiere of Sugar Daddies - where the theatre legend himself will travel to Seattle to direct. In our Central Heating Lab, where ACT partners with other groups to produce new and exciting alternative theatre, AZEOTROPE returns with a double-header performed in repertory, and Das Fallopia makes their ACT debut with Ham for the Holidays. Fans of new works who love to delve into the developmental process will have plenty to see with ACT's New Play Award, The Construction Zone, and Icicle Creek Theater Festival.

Lionel Bart's classic Broadway musical Oliver! brings to exuberant life Charles Dickens' beloved characters from the novel Oliver Twist onstage in the intimate Heritage Center Theatre in Morrisville, PA. Co-Founder Joe Doyle of Morrisville directs the tale of an orphan boy who falls into the grip of Fagin, the conniving leader of a band of pickpocketing children.

Picture it: a young man from Pennsylvania trains in ballet, moves to New York, and then finds success as a musical theatre dancer. It sounds like the stuff of fairy tales, doesn't it? Well, for 22-year-old Michael McIlwee, it was reality. This young dancer from Scranton is currently serving as the dance captain for the Harbor Lights Theatre Company production of Oliver, which runs July 12-28 at Snug Harbor Music Hall in Staten Island, New York. Mr. McIlwee was kind enough to talk with me this week about his passion for dance, his dream roles, and how Harbor Lights' production of Oliver is using dance to tell the story of the Charles Dickens orphan.

M.A.D. Theatre, Tampa's 'Music, Acting, Dance' company, presents The Mystery of Edwin Drood August 15-18 and 22-25, Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., at the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts Shimberg Playhouse, 1010 North W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa.

Deadline.com reports that Bravo is developing a drama called FORTUNE, based on Charles Dickens' 19th century novel Bleak House.