The 84-year-old actor was rumoured to miss the festival due to ill health, but said she had no plans to slow down.

Blake Montgomery in “Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol’ Again” at the Den Theatre. (Joe Mazza) This makes me wonder, why filter the story through Dickens at all?

Eleven letters were acquired by the Charles Dickens Museum in London from a private seller in the United States — a country Dickens visited twice on popular public reading tours.

"It took Charles Dickens to come forward and say, 'Maybe I can use my art to change what I see and what my world has become,'" Jones said. Ebenezer Scrooge is literature's most famous moneygrubber.

The production will feature all-original songs and a vibrant new interpretation designed to resonate with today’s audiences.

Author Charles Dickens is best known for his memorable cast of characters, including Ebenezer Scrooge, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, shown here. The Granger Collection, NYC One of the most ...

Charles Dickens, best known for writing “A Christmas Carol” nearly 170 years ago, has come back into the spotlight after a 150-year-old letter from the English author was recently discovered.

When Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his father's debts finally caught up with him, and he was sent to the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison. (It was a baker who sent him there.

Mrs. Dickens was accompanied by her favorite waiting-maid, Ann—a warm-hearted English girl,—I believe London born and bred,—and devotedly attached to the family.

Dickens visited the state in 1842, but he was also a celebrity with a social agenda. You might cringe at the idea of comparing Charles Dickens to Lady Gaga, but he also used the power that comes ...