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 ...

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Actor Ian McKellen chooses a Dickens adaptation by David Edgar at the RSC The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, ...

While the four-hour version of Charles Dickens’ “Nicholas Nickleby” airing on Bravo this week can’t match the thoroughness of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s celebrated eight-hour stage production of ...

In 1980, arriving in the lobby for the first night – well, first afternoon in fact – of Nicholas Nickleby, I ran into Ian McKellen (My Favourite Play – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby), ...

The production marks his first return to the RSC since playing Smike in the company's now legendary early 1980s production The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby opposite the late Roger Rees in ...

Roger Rees, the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby, and one of their most notable Hamlets – as well as Kirstie Alley’s obnoxious love interest, Robin Colcord, in Cheers – died on Friday night in New York aged 71 ...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Part One: Epic drama. Adapted by David Edgar from the novel by Charles Dickens. Directed by Jonathan Moscone and Sean Daniels. (Through Aug. 7 and Sept.

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 ...

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 ...

The challenge is daunting: How do you reduce an epic, 800-page novel into a two-hour movie? When the author is Charles Dickens, there’s the added onus of pleasing his passionate following. Famously, ...

The consummate storytelling and richly drawn characters of one of literature's greatest chroniclers of the human condition make Douglas McGrath's adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby" a delightful ...