Seventy years ago, in 1954, the late critic Eleanor Farjeon wrote an introduction to “Christmas Books by Charles Dickens” in which she stated of the five books, “The Cricket on the Hearth” (written in ...

There’s more than Scrooge on Austin stages this holiday season – which is just as his creator would want it This confluence of Dickens’ works on our stages would please the author greatly, for if he ...

Mister Scrooge is having quite a time in Central New York this holiday season. Syracuse Stage, which is celebrating 50 years of bringing world class theatrical productions to the community, is ...

Charles Dickens had a knack for creating fictional characters, dozens and dozens of them in every book, so vivid and so individualized in personality, with wonderfully distinctive names, that it was ...