Nicholas and his sister Kate arrive penniless and jobless in London after the death of their father. Nicholas has an important encounter with Newman Noggs. Nicholas has been found employment by his ...

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 ...

28 November: Part One, 2.30pm - Part Two, 7.00pm 29 November: Part One, 2.30pm - Part Two, 7.00pm 30 November: Part Two, 7.00pm 1 December: Part One, 2.30pm - Part Two, 7.00pm I took the easier option ...

Back in 1980, the Royal Shakespeare Company mounted a 9-hour production of "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby." It was directed by Trevor Nunn and starred (among a huge cast) Roger Rees as ...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Part Two: Epic drama. Adapted by David Edgar from the novel by Charles Dickens. Directed by Jonathan Moscone and Sean Daniels. (Through Sept. 18.

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 ...

Think Jamie Bell and ballet shoes immediately spring to mind. A trained dancer, Bell put his skills to good use playing the eponymous "Billy Elliot", a role that saw him beat out Russell Crowe to win ...

Dir: Douglas McGrath. US. 2002. 130mins. Having captured the spirit of Jane Austen with his 1996 debut Emma, American writer-director Douglas McGrath now delivers a warm and engaging, though ...

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 ...

Douglas McGrath’s new screen adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Nicholas Nickleby” has the rare distinction of being both too long and much too short. It’s too short to capture even remotely either the ...

In the Dickens canon, Nicholas Nickleby is a piffle among stronger works. It has all the requisite Dickensian elements: the cruel gray brow of industry and circumstance meant to bring high men low, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This is slimline Dickens. Not that anything capacious enough to accommodate two Barry Humphries - one of each sex - could really be ...