Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop became an instant bestseller when it was published in serial form between 1841 and 1842. Queen Victoria was a fan. Since then, the book’s reputation and ...

They’ve got heroes and villains. Suspense and romance. Even a boat chase on the River Thames, complete with a man overboard. “The bad guys get on a boat, and we get on a boat with the police and chase ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) In 1764, Horace Walpole published the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto , set in a labyrinthine castle surrounded by woods. The novel features the supernatural, with ...

Cast members from the Memory Lane Theatre in Lixnaw pictured in costume for their upcoming play 'Murder in the Red Barn' which will be staged at St John's Theatre in Listowel for two nights next week.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... G. William Oakley, dubbed “The Barnum of the Butte” by The Denver Post, walked away from the Heritage Square Opera House he founded in Golden at the age of ...

The story of Sweeney Todd first appeared on the stage in London in 1847 at Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, in a melodrama, 'The String of Pearls', based on a popular "penny dreadful" serialised story. Now ...

Opera della Luna Sweeney Todd The Original! A Victorian Melodrama The story of Sweeney Todd first appeared on the stage in 1847, in a melodrama at the Britannia Theatre in the east end of London. The ...