Charles Dickens News

From December 2nd-23rd the Player's Ring will present Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol as its 25th Anniversary Season holiday offering at 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth NH.

Franklin Performing Arts Company (FPAC) celebrates the holiday season with two original FPAC musicals, A Glass Slipper Christmas and Humbug! The productions are family friendly, festive, and full of fun.

A Christmas Carol and 7 Santas opens this Thanksgiving weekend at SCT. Scroll down for details!

Charles Dickens' timeless classic gets the full Broadway treatment in LOST Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol - The Musical, by the Broadway team of Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid), Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical) and Mike Ockrent (Crazy For You, Me and My Girl).

Southern Winds Theater presents a one man presentation of A Christmas Carol written and performed by David A. McElroy. Mr. McElroy adapted for the stage and performs all 37 different characters. A Christmas Carol is directed by Marylin McGinnis with Stage Management by Bonnie Sprung.

 INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO. (ISC), producers of the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival, presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH CHARLES DICKENS. In his lifetime, Charles Dickens was recognized not only as a great writer, but as an actor. His greatest successes on the stages of Britain and the United States were his solo performances of his own work. One of the first pieces he presented to great acclaim was A Christmas Carol. A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH CHARLES DICKENS will perform at Independent Studio from Thursday, December 8 - Sunday, December 18(Thursdays - Sundays) at Independent Studio in the Atwater Crossing Arts + Innovation Complex, 3191 Casitas Ave., #168 in Atwater Village.

South Baltimore's favorite holiday show returns to Riverside Stage this December. This is the original tale just as Dickens wrote it, with the festive music and delightful lyrics that have captivated Baltimore audiences year after year. A Christmas treat for the entire family, brimming with elaborate scenery, authentic costumes, and theatrical magic. One of Maryland Theatre Guide's Top 5 holiday shows.

Virginia Stage Company's annual tradition, A Christmas Carol, will return to the Wells Theatre this holiday season.

Every year, Out of Box Theatre offers two distinct holiday comedies for your seasonal enjoyment, and this year will see a reimagined version of A Dickens' Christmas Carol: A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts and the annual holiday sketch show Santa After Hours, but both feature some fun - and funny - changes that you won't want to miss. Scroll down for a sneak peek at both shows!

Life Jacket Theatre Company will present GOREY: THE SECRET LIVES OF EDWARD GOREY, a new play written and directed by Travis Russ, in a strictly limited Off-Broadway engagement from December 14, 2016 - January 14, 2017 at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (18 Bleecker Street).

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The award-winning Titan Theatre Company announced today the cast and creative team for its upcoming production of the Charles Dickens classic A CHRISTMAS CAROL, adapted by Emily Trask and Lenny Banovez. A CHRISTMAS CAROL will play a three week limited engagement at Queens Theatre. Performances begin Friday December 9th and continue through Thursday, December 22.

After a sold-out run on B Street Theatre's Family Series Stage in 2015, Buck Busfield's adaptation of A Christmas Carol returns to B Street's Mainstage as the 2016 Holiday Show. Called 'a set piece of costume-changing, door-slamming comic gold' by the Sacramento Bee, this production is sure to warm the hearts of children and adults alike. Featuring B Street's beloved Company Members Greg Alexander reprising his role of Ebenezer Scrooge, John Lamb, Amy Kelly, Tara Sissom and Kurt Johnson, this production is a must-see this Holiday Season.

The Ridgefield Playhouse and Ridgefield Academy Family Series are bringing the spirit of Christmas to the stage today, November 19 at 11am and 2pm with "A Dickens Tale" - a retelling of the beloved Charles Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol. 

Get into the Holiday Spirit at The Ridgefield Playhouse!  Ridgefield Academy Family Series presents "A Dickens Tale" - a retelling of the beloved Charles Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol - on Today, November 19 at 11am and 2pm. In this family friendly production,which is partially underwritten by Books on the Common, South Salem Animal Hospital and Noah's Ark Animal Hospital, the audience will meet the mean old man named Ebenezer Scrooge, known for his penny pinching ways.  Scrooge is visited by three spirits on a snowy Christmas Eve.

With new stage magic and Chicago favorites, Goodman Theatre's A Christmas Carol takes the stage in its 39th year. Returning for his fourth year, Henry Wishcamper directs Charles Dickens' tale of hope and redemption.

Buck Busfield's adaptation of Charles Dickens' Classic Tale A Christmas Carol. After a sold-out run on B Street Theatre's Family Series Stage in 2015, Buck Busfield's adaptation of A Christmas Carol returns to B Street's Mainstage as the 2016 Holiday Show. Called "a set piece of costume-changing, door-slamming comic gold" by the Sacramento Bee, this production is sure to warm the hearts of children and adults alike. Featuring B Street's beloved Company Members Greg Alexander reprising his role of Ebenezer Scrooge, John Lamb, Amy Kelly, Tara Sissom and Kurt Johnson, this production is a must-see this Holiday Season.

The Harlem Repertory Theatre is reviving the 1978 TONY award winning musical 'Ain't Misbehavin', for a very limited engagement from October 8th to March 25th at the Tato Laviera Theatre at Harlem Prep Elementary School, 240 East 123rd Street (at 3rd Ave.), Manhattan. A swinging, rip-roaring musical tribute to the black musicians of the Harlem Renaissance, 'Ain't Misbehavin' opened on Broadway in 1978 as a musical revue of Jazz Legend Fats Waller's popular songbook, and it ended up winning a number of awards including the TONY for Best Musical. The Harlem Repertory Theatre's production of 'Ain't Misbehavin', which sold out it's 2008 run and won the AUDELCO 2008 Musical Production of the Year Award, is now returning to the Harlem Rep's stage for its' 2016-17 season in a new intimate cabaret style that will bring the audience closer to the performers. This brilliant showcase of Fats Waller's magnificent songbook will have audiences dancing in the aisles as the HRT's finest company members sing the toe-tapping, hand-clapping songs: T'Ain't Nobody's Business, This Joint is Jumpin', Honeysuckle Rose, the title song, Ain't Misbehavin', and many more! The Harlem Repertory Theatre is proud to be bringing this production back to Harlem; to the neighborhoods Fats Waller knew growing up that inspired him!

Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd announces the cast and creative team for the theatre's production of A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas, staged in the newly renovated Hubbard Theatre.

TheatreSquared announced the full cast and creative team for its upcoming holiday feature, a world premiere stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. After a startling Christmas Eve encounter, Pip's life will never be the same. Plucked from poverty and thrust into the Victorian upper class, he strives to discover himself and find true love while untangling a web of secrets. Six actors portray more than 30 characters in this virtuosic retelling for the stage. Performances are scheduled for November 30 through New Year's Day, with tickets ($15-$45) available at theatre2.org or (479) 443-5600.