To make sense of the distorted dream world of American politics and its perplexing Lewis Carroll rhetoric, we sometimes have to look beyond familiar categories and recent history. This week, for ...

BRAINERD — The Stage North Theatre Company will perform Lional Bart’s “Oliver!” April 3-7 at the Franklin Arts Center in Brainerd. The iconic Broadway musical follows the story of Oliver Twist, a ...

Please, sir. We already know the story of “Oliver Twist.” Mr. Dickens wrote the story of the orphan’s hardscrabble life in Victorian London back in the early 1800s. We’ve seen the conniving Fagin and ...

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist: Melodrama. Adapted from the novel and directed by Neil Bartlett. (Through June 24. Berkeley Repertory s Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. Two hours, 20 minutes.

For its current production, the Walnut Street Theatre is presenting a new staging of the musical theater classic, “Oliver!” It continues through Jan. 10 on the Main Stage. Set in Victorian London, ...

The Yorkshire poet, critic and scholar William Empson once offered his theory that (in literature and on the stage) the ...

Oliver Twist was Dickens’ second novel, and my first. My grandmother read it to me and my sister when we were young. We loved the part when meek little orphan Oliver, born out of wedlock in a ...

It's a battered brick building behind a high wall in London — austere, overlooked and slated for demolition. Look closer, and it's linked to one of Britain's greatest authors as well as to a shameful ...

Hamilton-Gibson’s summer musical “Oliver!” will be presented for four performances this weekend in the newly renovated 1930 Straughn Hall Auditorium on the Mansfield University campus. “Oliver!” is a ...

Charles Dickens' very name has become synonymous with the poverty and harsh conditions he described evocatively in his novels about life in Victorian Britain. So theatregoers are unlikely to be ...