Brit writer-director Neil Bartlett not only manages to shake Lionel Bart's melodic songs out of one's head in his sensational stage adaptation of "Oliver Twist," he makes the audience rethink Dickens' ...

An absorbing new adaptation of “Oliver Twist” has its American broadcast debut tonight on the PBS series “Masterpiece Classic.” And it takes nothing away from this two-part TV miniseries to note it’s ...

What with all the brouhaha "Slumdog Millionaire" has stirred up - the denigration of India, the whole notion of "poverty porn" - it's good to get back to basics. "Oliver Twist" premieres tonight on ...

Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago. Wednesday marked the 200 th anniversary of the birth of the British novelist Charles Dickens. As tribute after tribute has noted, Dickens was the most famous ...

Saban Films has acquired North American rights to 'Twist,' a modern-day take on the Charles Dickens classic 'Oliver Twist.' By Mia Galuppo Saban Films has acquired North American rights to Twist, a ...

From a reviewer’s perspective, something called “The Artful Dodger” is a no-lose prospect. Such a series will either be a creatively speculative exploration of one of the more memorable characters in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Sam Mendes is teaming up with Audible on a series of audio drama adaptations of Charles Dickens stories. 1917 and Skyfall director Mendes will serve exec producer on the three ...

While there have been other, admirable attempts to update Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist recently—as the gender-flipped Olivia Twist, in which Ashley Greene joins a gang, and as a “3-D parkour” film in ...

The hit film Oliver is reportedly the latest classic to undergo a remake with bosses desperate to make it a success after the last rehash. Back in 2021, Sky was slammed for their adaptation of the fan ...

Glendale's adventurous A Noise Within applies a nakedly theatrical, two-planks-and-a-passion treatment to Neil Bartlett's "Oliver Twist" adaptation, accruing a remarkable degree of the novel's ...