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 ...

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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 ...

Young Nicholas Nickleby, penniless after his father’s death, arrives in London seeking a way to care for his mother and sister. Their only hope is the Scrooge-like Uncle Ralph, who sends Nicholas away ...

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, ...