Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens was excerpted in the book "Great Expectations"

Three of the stars of "The Importance of Being Earnest joined us on Monday to talk about their upcoming performances of the classic Oscar Wilde play. Alex Manalo, Veronica Del Cerro and Paulie Deo Jr. joined us to discuss the upcoming performances.

A north London man of letters slides down the social ladder in Andrew O'Hagan’s pitch-perfect tragicomedy of manners. A cast list includes a hip-hop-loving hacker to a wealthy activist. The novel is the Dickens of our post-Brexit pandemic age.

Vinson Cunningham's debut novel tells the story of a young man transformed by working for the presidential campaign of an aspirational Black senator from Illinois. Cunningham is a New Yorker essayist and author of "Great Expectations" The book is published by the New York-based Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – but are solo shows the most successful? London Tide is at London's National Theatre for the first time since Dickens was published in 18th Century.

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – but are solo shows the most successful? London Tide is at London's National Theatre for the first time since Dickens was published in 18th Century.

Izzard uses humour instinctively, helped by Dickens’s love of the exaggerated or comic grotesque