Arden Theatre glides steadily through the broad sweep of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” – and when it comes to adaptations of novels, you’d be right to have great expectations for the Arden.

When it comes to Dickens adaptations, it helps to temper your expectations. The revered Victorian writer is perhaps the most frequently adapted novelist in history – but to what end? The results are ...

Great Expectations has all the ingredients for a delicious retelling of a Dickens classic but ends up bland on the palate. This was not the outcome we had predicted. In fact our… expectations… were ...

The Oscar winner stars as Miss Havisham alongside Fionn Whitehead as Pip in a gritty version of the Charles Dickens classic from writer Steven Knight ('Peaky Blinders'). By Angie Han Television Critic ...

There’s a palpable darkness in Steven Knight’s adaptation of “Great Expectations.” It’s figurative, embedded in the characters and the storyline, but also literal, with dirt and rot caking everything.