An ambitious Shakespeare adaptation, a soon-to-be Broadway musical, a Tolstoy-inspired tale and more made U-T theater critic ...

Farningham, in the Sevenoaks district, has only around 1,457 or so villagers. The High Street has elegant Victorian-looking ...

Maryann was an avid reader, her favorites being Charles Dickens and Anne Perry. Her favorite actor was Marlon Brando and favorite singer was Frank Sinatra. Favorite athletes included Yogi Berra and ...

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After 22 years of marriage and 10 children, Charles Dickens famously dumped his wife, Catherine Dickens, in 1858. Wielding the power of his pen, he alleged that Catherine was mentally unbalanced and ...

Image: Old Vic Since 2017, Waterloo's Old Vic theatre has staged Jack Thorne's (writer of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child) version of the Dickens Christmas parable, which comes loaded with all ...

In a show that loves to give supernatural twists to well-known historical figures, this choice speaks to Dickens’ longstanding grip on the popular imagination, from his own time to the present.

The village will transform into the Victorian era with many attendees dressed in period costumes for the 28th annual Charles Dickens Festival. "It’s immense. We have street characters.

A chalk and pastel sketch of Dickens at the time when he was living in Doughty Street A collection of rarely-seen items connected to 19th century writer Charles Dickens are to go on show at the ...

The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens' books to life.Oliver Twist, Ebenezer ...