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' ...

A modernization of Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” Martin Owen’s “Twist” is mediocre on all levels in spite of the casting of Michael Caine in the role of Fagin, the evil mastermind running a ring of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christmas is always the busy season for Charles Dickens, but this year there’s more going on than usual. There’s a Bill Murray remake of A Christmas Carol (playing the perfect ’80s Scrooge—a TV exec ...

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 ...