Auditions for “Oliver Twist”

Auditions for “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens, adapted by Neil Bartlett

When: August 28, 29, 31 at 7 p.m. in the Studio Theater

Performs: October 13, 14, 20, 21 at 7:30 p.m. & October 15, 22 at 4 p.m., Campus Theater

Neil Bartlett brings Dickens’s moving story of the precarious survival of innocence and goodness in a fiendish, fallen world to thrilling dramatic life. And the piece’s overriding motif — Oliver’s desperate search for the family he never had — is deeply affecting.