- Dickens and his works will play an important role in the first-ever Literature Festival in Malton, England, this weekend. Go here for more information.
- He also has a role in this weekend's Bloomsbury Festival in London . . .
- . . . And in Wicked Literature: A Halloween Theatre Festival in Altadena, California, this month . . .
- . . . And in Naper Settlement's History Speaks Lecture Series this December in Illinois. Busy man, our Mr. Dickens.
- A new Christmas opera called "God Bless Us Everyone," set to music by Thomas Pasatieri, premieres at the Dicapo Opera Theatre in New York in December. According to the description at Dicapo's site, "Scrooge has just died and everyone is two decades older. Tiny Tim has moved from England to the New World, and as so many immigrants, has served as a British mercenary in the Union Army during the American Civil War. . . . Be prepared for some surprises." I should say so!
- Tickets are on sale for the 31st annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco. Information is available here and here.
- And today Hereafter opens nationwide, so this evening I'm off for a nice game of Spot the Dickens References. Hopefully I'll do a little better than Matt Damon, who doesn't remember which audiobook his character listened to in the film. (He did "really like the Charles Dickens stuff," though, so we'll give him a point for that — unlike his interviewer, who thought Mr. Micawber was in The Pickwick Papers.) I'll report back today or tomorrow. If you see it and want to share your thoughts, feel free to use the comment section!
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