The Old Curiosity Shop

September 25, 2026

‘Dickens and His Older People’: A review

By Danny Kuhn, guest blogger Dickens and His Older People: The Portrayal of Older Adult Characters…

January 22, 2023

Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby (Riverhead Books, 2022). What do a…

July 26, 2022

The British actor, who played Bob Cratchit in the 1984 A Christmas Carol and Sampson Brass in the…

September 5, 2020

Footlight Records has released the soundtrack of the musical film Quilp, based on The Old Curiosity Shop…

June 28, 2020

By Tai French, guest blogger A World Full of Dickens Stories: 8 Best-Loved Classic Tales Retold…

March 28, 2019

In January, this blog hit a major milestone — which I totally missed at the time!…

January 5, 2018

Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, creators of Annie and Bye Bye Birdie, also wrote a musical based on The Old…

April 8, 2015

The title of Laura Freeman's recent article in the Telegraph, "How Charles Dickens stopped me from starving myself…

November 14, 2014

In Variety, Tony Jordan says that they're having trouble finding studio space for the show and that it…

October 27, 2014

Tony Jordan spoke at the London Screenwriters' Festival and gave new details about his upcoming show…