Jean Shepherd News

The Christmas festivities didn't end on December 25th this year for many theatre-goers in Jackson, Mississippi. Attendees of all ages could be found in the auditorium at Thalia Mara Hall for the December 26th performance of A Christmas Story: The Musical.

For the first time ever, The Gateway brings your favorite holiday movie to life in A Christmas Story, The Musical at Patchogue Theatre, tonight, December 15, through December 27 - the best new holiday musical that is sure to become a classic!

From the songwriting team behind the smash hit Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen and the Academy Award-winning film La La Land, A Christmas Story, The Musical, brings the beloved classic movie to life, opening tonight, December 12, at RBTL's Auditorium Theatre running through December 17, as part of the 2017-2018 M&T Bank Broadway Season presented by RBTL and Albert Nocciolino.

As we eagerly await the broadcast of A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE!, airing this Sunday, December 17th at 7/6c on FOX, BWW takes a look back at the origins of this classic holiday tale, from book, to movie, to stage to television!

Riverside Theatre for Kids, the educational arm of Riverside Theatre, presents the holiday musical, A Christmas Story, The Musical on December 8 & 9 and 15 & 16, 2017.

The classic holiday comedy is now a big, brassy, and ultimately heartwarming Broadway musical.

Victoria Theatre Association continues the 2017-2018 Projects Unlimited Star Attractions with humorist Jean Shepard's play turned favorite, family film A CHRISTMAS STORY, Dec. 12-17 at the historic Victoria Theatre. Tickets are on sale now at Ticket Center Stage, located in downtown Dayton, or by calling 937-228-3630 or 888-228-3630 or online at www.ticketcenterstage.com.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) presents, as their 20th season's holiday production, a funny and heartfelt Christmas show based on the classic 1983 movie, A Christmas Story. Based on stories by legendary radio humorist Jean Shepherd, this show tells the tale of young Ralphie Parker, who wants only one thing for Christmas: an official Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-shot Range Model Air Rifle.

South Bend Civic Theatre is proud to present A Christmas Story. The production will run December 1-23 in the Civic's Wilson Theatre. A Christmas Story is written by PHILIP GRECIAN, based on the movie by JEAN SHEPERD, LEIGH BROWN, and BOB CLARK.

Bay City Players announces the cast for A Christmas Story by Philip Grecian. Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story (copyright 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros.), written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brownand Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.

Nashville audiences love their traditions whether they be of a theatrical bent or of a more personal nature so it should be noted that the holiday season in Music City is now upon us with the arrival of one of the most beloved theater traditions: Nashville Repertory Theatre's annual staging of A Christmas Story (the tale of young Ralphie, his long-suffering mother, his old man and his younger brother Randy), which offers up a timeless tale of Christmas in the heartland that is overflowing with nostalgia and a whole lot of heart.

For the first time ever, The Gateway brings your favorite holiday movie to life in A Christmas Story, The Musical at Patchogue Theatre, December 15 - 27 - the best new holiday musical that is sure to become a classic!

Riverside Theatre for Kids, the educational arm of Riverside Theatre, presents the holiday musical, A Christmas Story, The Musical on December 8 & 9 and 15 & 16, 2017.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past 34 years, you have seen the 1983 Christmas comedy film, A CHRISTMAS STORY. The classic film, based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional 1966 book, In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, has been adapted into a two-act play and a Broadway musical.

Broadway Palm's production of A CHRISTMAS STORY is absolutely one of their best shows yet. It is a heartwarming tale; a classic story many people know and love to watch around Christmas time. Infamous quotes, like 'you'll shoot your eye out,' and well-known objects, like the leg lamp and the bunny onesie Ralphie wears, are taken from the film and made into a fantastic musical production.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) presents, as their 20th season's holiday production, a funny and heartfelt Christmas show based on the classic 1983 movie, A Christmas Story. Based on stories by legendary radio humorist Jean Shepherd, this show tells the tale of young Ralphie Parker, who wants only one thing for Christmas: an official Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-shot Range Model Air Rifle.

Remember the classic 1983 film in which little Ralphie Parker (Griffin Sanford) in a small town in Indiana in 1940 wants a BB gun and formulates an elaborate plan to get one from Santa Claus? 'You'll shoot your eye out!' everyone complains. The movie contains one of the funniest scenes on film where little Flick (Jude Gomez) gets his tongue frozen on the school flag pole. Now in a rare production of the adapted movie script by Philip Grecian, A Christmas Story is live onstage with a bevy of kids, 14 in fact, and a whole lot of quaint antics, meticulously directed by artistic director Christian Lebano, at SMP through December 31.

The nationally regarded Fulton Theatre presents the holiday classic A Christmas Story, The Musical, now through December 31. Join Ralphie and friends as they bring the heartwarming nostalgia of this Christmas film to life on stage. WE TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU!

Jean Shepherd's comedy, A Christmas Story, adapted by Phillip Grecian, runs November 16-December 3, 2017 at Lake Worth Playhouse.

Denton Community Theatre presents their holiday show, A Christmas Story by Philip Grecian, based upon the motion picture A Christmas Story -1983 Turner Entertainmet Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark.