Charles Dickens News

Ford's Theatre 2014-2015 season continues with A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and adapted by Michael Wilson, tonight, November 20, 2014 to January 1, 2015. Acclaimed Washington stage actor Edward Gero returns for the sixth year to play Ebenezer Scrooge. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the show below!

Flat Rock Playhouse and Executive Producer, Pardee Hospital will kick off the holiday season with the Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas Carol on the Clyde and Nina Allen Mainstage beginning tonight, November 20th and running through December 21st.

The show is wonderful to begin with. Theatre Three's annual production of Charles Dickens' classic...

Toronto based Alexander Showcase Theatre will perform Charles' Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol" from Nov. 28-30 and Dec. 4-7 at the PapermillTheatre (67 Pottery Road). Tickets are available now at www.alexandershowcasetheatre.com, by emailing tickets@alexandershowcasetheatre.com or by calling (416) 324-1259.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater brings its uplifting production of Charles Dickens' beloved holiday classic A Christmas Carol to The Pabst Theater this December.

Hale Centre Theatre (HCT), Utah's Premiere Family Theatre, has reached a milestone with its 30th annual production of A Christmas Carol, the beloved theatre and community tradition, running Saturday, December 6 through Wednesday, December 24.

The holiday season moves into high gear on Saturday, Dec. 6 and Sunday, Dec. 7 when Chicago's home grown holiday film Scrooge & Marley returns to the Music Box Theatre (3733 N. Southport Ave., Chicago) a little over two years from the date of its red carpet premiere at the historic venue in 2012. Both screenings are at Noon, for $10 each.

Get introspective with New York's 'Best Story Hour' (The Village Voice Best of NY), as Naked Girls Reading presents DEAR DIARY! Join your favorite naked readers as they share selections from personal journals, historical chronicles, memoirs, musings and first-person accounts. Revisit the great diarists of fiction, history and literature in-the-buff with the Naked Girls (and without having to break the lock on your sister's journal!)

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) brings audiences a fresh take on a beloved classic, A Q Brothers' Christmas Carol, developed with hip-hop sensations the Q Brothers and CST Creative Producer Rick Boynton. After a special work-in-progress presentation last season, Chicago Shakespeare is proud to premiere this hip-hop reinterpretation of the perennial holiday favorite by Charles Dickens. A Q Brothers' Christmas Carol rocks the theater Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare for a limited engagement tonight, November 19-December 31, 2014.

Master storyteller Jonathan Kruk brings to magical life A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future on Sunday, November 20, 2014, 2:00 PM, at UCPAC's Hamilton Stage, 360 Hamilton Street, in Rahway, NJ.

- This holiday season, Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre presents the 20th Anniversary production of its popular one-hour version of A Christmas Carol. Enhanced with traditional carols, this classic Charles Dickens tale is on stage for just 10 performances from Dec. 6-22.

Robert Webb re-joins the Olivier award-winning comedy Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense on tour from February - April 2015 following his West End run earlier this year. Jason Thorpe will play Jeeves and the role of Seppings will be played by Christopher Ryan from February - June 2015. The trio will be taking over from John Gordon Sinclair (Jeeves), James Lance (Bertie Wooster) and Robert Goodale (Seppings).

Spreckels Theatre Company presents an encore presentation of its critically acclaimed production of 'Scrooge: The Musical,' starring Tim Setzer as Ebenezer Scrooge.

The Delaware Children's Theatre will present the classic holiday tale Scrooge with a cast of more than forty adults, teens and children to introduce young families to the magic of live theatre. The show opens Saturday, November 22 and runs through December 14th.

The Desert Rose Playhouse, in Rancho Mirage California, is presenting a hilariously funny sendup of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SCROOGE IN ROUGE. The plot's premise is that a small music hall on London's outskirts plans to present A CHRISTMAS CAROL. When all but three actors in the twenty-member cast develop food poisoning, the three decide to go forward with each of them taking on multiple roles. The puns and other corny jokes fly in this brilliant production. If you see only one version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL this year, it should be this one.

Leddy Center is celebrating its 40th Season of bringing Broadway musicals and classic drama to our greater communities as a non-profit 501c3 NH Arts and Education Organization.

New York's 'Best Story Hour' (The Village Voice Best of NY 2010) - stuffs your stocking with an extra-hot winter treat: their sixth annual reading of Charles Dickens' holiday classic A Christmas Carol. On Wednesday, December 18th at 9:00pm host Nasty Canasta (declared by the New York Times to be 'perhaps the loveliest and certainly the nudest Scrooge in history') leads an all-star cast of exhibitionists in an in-the-buff reading of this special version of A Christmas Carol, just as Dickens himself originally performed it - although perhaps a bit more naked.

Civic Theatre of Allentown will present the Silver Anniversary Production of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol,' beginning Friday, December 5. The production, which will play at Civic's historic Nineteenth Street Theatre, runs through December 20.

A holiday tradition returns to the corner of Franklin and First! John McDonald is Ebenezer Scrooge in the Roxy Regional Theatre's production of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL, December 10 - December 20.