Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, a benefit concert for The Actors Fund, will be held Dec. 15. Tony Award nominee Douglas Sills (The Scarlet Pimpernel, Little Shop of Horrors) stars …
Feverishly applying ink to paper, he "wept and laughed and wept again" - as he described his disposition in a letter - and later, "walked about the black streets of London fifteen and twenty…
Pleasance Theatre, London: As much a part of Christmas as roast turkey and the Queen's speech, the festive season wouldn't be the same without a fringe performance of A Christmas C…
The Goodman takes on Dickens' spirited story of Yuletide transformation.
Q Brothers send Dickens spinning with a rap adaptation.
On That Note! focuses on the individual artists who come together in the process of creating a work of musical theatre. This week, Michael Sharp shares insights – as both actor and dir…
A cold, winter night… a charming theatre housing the town’s lovers of The Arts… and America’s favorite Christmas story – it felt like a storybook evening. It wa…
"My goal is that they [the audience] will never look at the story the same way again. This is not your Mama's Christmas Carol." In what has become an annual event, Paul Morella is bringing t…
HARTFORD – "Since its Hartford Stage debut in 1998, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas" has become a Hartford holiday tradition, beloved by critics and aud…
Sound, staging and extraordinary acting combine to wonderful effect in this adaptation of Dickens' Christmas tale, says Mark Brown
This holiday season, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is giving a clever, local twist to Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale of redemption and generosity. Adapted and directed by fo…
Inside the gorgeous brick edifice of the new Chesapeake Shakespeare Company home in Baltimore rises another brick edifice, this one made out of flat, painted wood but no less impressive. The…
The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater's "A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa" is essentially Dickens's original tale, with a few dashes of multiculturalism.
This post is by Darryl Reilly As a director, HorejÅ¡ has a great command of the visual. The puppets perform in various parts of the stage and fly around and enter from windows and trapdoor…
In 1842, Barnum's City Hotel, at the corner of Calvert and Fayette streets, welcomed Charles Dickens, who promptly proclaimed the hostelry among the finest he had sampled.
Over the years many companies have put their own spin on Charles Dickens's holiday favorite A Christmas Carol. Wolf Pack Theatre Company is taking the story where it hasn't gone before with …
Derby Theatre: Jim Barclay plays Ebenezer Scrooge and an accomplished ensemble of seven actor-musicians - several with roots in Derby - share the narration and double, triple and quadruple r…
The musical will be presented as a benefit for The Actors Fund.
Belvoir, SydneyDickens' parable of 19th-century social inequality has plenty to say in 2014 in a pared-back production that's still full of Christmas cheer Continue reading...
Nothing spreads holiday cheer quite like the unearthly wolf grunts and throaty insistent howls of the Klingon species. In advance of WSC Avant Bard's one-night-only staged reading of A Kling…
Citizens, GlasgowCreepy settings and music, along with subtle characterisations, make for an especially satisfying seasonal treat Continue reading...
RECOMMENDED If you haven't had the chance to see Commedia Beauregard's "A Klingon Christmas Carol," well now is the time. The current incarnation of the show, its fifth, will apparently be t…
The Puppet Theatre Barge, London: Nestled on a canal in Little Venice bobs the Puppet Barge, a marionette theatre specialising in shows for children. It's lined with dark wooden panels …