Filled with a real love of Dickens' words as well as his characters the Bridge Theatre has found a fresh and exciting way to tell the familiar tale of A Christmas Carol and give Scrooge's re…
Go behind the (virtual) scenes with longtime A Christmas Carol-ers"Larry Yando (Scrooge), Penelope Walker (Mrs. Fezziwig), and Paris Strickland (Emily Cratchit)"in this lively conversation p…
Scrooge was right, you know; it is humbug to fall like jackals upon each other for eleven months of the year, but on the twelfth to feign good will and generosity of spirit. He was a skinfli…
A Christmas Carol, produced by PG County Shakespeare in the Parks and set in Victorian England, is a hauntingly lovely radio drama. It's free and family-friendly, and a welcome reminder of t…
Brian Conley stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, with Lucie Jones, Cedric Neal, Matt Jay-Willis, and more.
This is the year when you could start now, watch a different Christmas Carol every day (streaming, obviously), and keep right on through to 2021. " American Theatre
The screenwriter and dramatist on why we're all Scrooge, writing a Covid care home drama and his brush with Star Wars Jack Thorne, 42, was born in Bristol and studied at Cambridge University…
Christmas as we know it"the tree, the cards, the carol singing"began during the early Victorian age and perhaps no one popularized those now-familiar traditions more than did Charles Dickens…
Manual Cinema has forged a live, puppet version of 'Christmas Carol,' toned to the traumas of a lonely pandemic Christmas. It begins with Lysol and Zoom.
Performing an abridged but faithful version of 'A Christmas Carol,' Jefferson Mays keeps this holiday tradition alive for streaming audiences.
SINGING THE PRAISES OF A CAROL At this time of year, productions about dear old Scrooge are ablaze as usual, even in streaming mode. One-man shows, radio plays, and reruns on film. What's yo…
Here are a few of our staff picks for the coming week.
The credits at the end of this A Christmas Carol list a cast of 51 characters " 50 of them portrayed by Jefferson Mays. He's the narrator, as well as Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge's clerk Bob Cr…
The credits at the end of this "A Christmas Carol" list a cast of 51 characters " 50 of them portrayed by Jefferson Mays…even The Dying Fire and An Indignant Potato…..But the main achiev…
The Classical Theatre of Harlem will ring in the holiday spirit this year! Tune in to the free, online stream of A Christmas Carol in Harlem, as recorded live last year, based on the time…
Amid the constraints of social distancing, perhaps more urgently because of them, many U.S. theatres are finding ways to bring audiences an annual dose of Dickens.
Unable to stage its holiday staple "A Christmas Carol" for the first time in 24 years, Hartford Stage has created a new virtual adaptation of the Dickens story, "A Community Carol," streamin…
A scene from the one-man production of A Christmas Carol starring Jefferson Mays in about 50 roles. Click https://newyorktheater.me/2020/12/03/a-christmas-carol-with-jefferson-mays-review-pi…
The Goodman Theatre's seasonal tradition is available for free this December as an audio play. Comforting, entertaining and well worth a listen.
The play is directed by Rebeck and co-adapted by Erin Daley.
Rebeck also directs the benefit for Primary Stages.
PRIMARY STAGES will present a virtual benefit reading of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, adapted by Theresa Rebeck & Erin Daley and directed by Theresa Rebeck…
The company successfully created a new live shadow puppet cinema work in time for this physically distanced holiday season.
Actor Jefferson Mays offers a thrilling, one-person 'Christmas Carol' as a benefit for theaters across the country. Cameron Kelsall reviews.