Time-honored Jewish stereotypes and caricatures are falling on hard times in the movies. Al Pacino’s complex and heart-wrenching portrayal of Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice” put a human face on ...

Its colorful characters, chasm-leaping plot twists and even the belting voices aren’t the main draw of “Oliver!,” in its production by Musical Theatre West. The draw is and probably has always been ...

No small part of the bouncy charm of “Oliver!” is that the snakes in the grass have all the lines. Having stolen everything else in sight, the well-known Anglo-Saxon villain, Fagin, and his pint-sized ...

Great expectations are unavoidable when Roman Polanski takes on a Charles Dickens classic. Alas, his version of “Oliver Twist” fails to live up to them. This French-British-Czech production is ...

Foley is a freelance writer. It takes a bit of doing to distill Dickens’ characteristically capacious plots into reasonably scaled stage plays, but protean theatrical veteran Neil Bartlett does the ...