They weren't kidding when they said Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby" is an epic story. "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby," now playing at Ohio Shakespeare Festival in Akron, is a 1980 ...

Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school ...

A new era is born.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1838) may be Charles Dickens’s greatest novel, but at 900 pages it’s a lot to dramatize—Trevor Nunn and David Edgar’s brilliant 1980 adaptation for the ...

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 ...

Scenes of tragedy alternate with scenes of melodrama and farce. Cheer Nicholas, as he triumphs in the face of adversity…gasp at the ruin of his villainous uncle…weep over the death of Smike… Get the ...

WORCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby” may be one of Charles Dickens’s lesser-known works, but it is well-represented in WPI’s Fellman Dickens Collection, ...

Among his numerous roles, Derrick Winger, front right, plays Folair, a member of an acting company, in "The Life and Acventures of Nicholas Nickleby" at Ohio Shakespeare Festival in Akron.

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 ...