Without his name on the credits, it would be difficult to identify the latest version of “Oliver Twist” as the work of Roman Polanski. Conventional, straightforward and very much within what used to ...

News Spend a Day With Eleasha Gamble, the Tattooed, Mohawked Nancy of Arena Stage's Modern-Day Oliver! Arena Stage's current production of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, the musical based on Charles Dickens' ...

Finding oneself trapped in an abusive relationship is rotten luck in real life -- but for any actress cast as Nancy in Oliver!, it's a passport to a moment of glory. Renata Reneé Wilson plays the ...

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 ...

A good joke about musicals: In the 1989 movie "The Tall Guy," a struggling actor gets the lead role in a proposed musical adaptation of "The Elephant Man." The show's title? "Elephant!" Exclamation ...