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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts > Exhibitions Best of Times: The Theatre of Charles DickensFrom November 7, 2002 through February 15, 2003 See related Online Exhibition.
Dickens's passion for the theater began in his childhood; his influence upon the theater continues today. Best of Times: The Theatre of Charles Dickens is illustrated with rare 19th-century broadsides, prints, posters, photographs, programs, and the original, annotated promptbooks used by Dickens during his vastly popular public readings. The exhibition highlights Dickens as performer, as playwright, and as the author upon whose works countless adaptations for the theater have been based. Among the productions represented are No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour starring Dickens as Captain Bobadil, an adaptation of Pickwick Papers presented by the Moscow Art Theatre in the 1935-36 season, and Comin' Uptown, a 1979 adaptation of A Christmas Carol starring Gregory Hines. Videotaped excerpts from stage productions recorded by the Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive will be shown in the gallery, including productions of A Christmas Carol, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Nicholas Nickleby. |
