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Now and throughout the holiday season, PBS stations across the country will air A Christmas Carol: The Concert, the newest special from HMS Media, 17-time Emmy Award winners for arts and social issue programming for public television. Scroll down for a first look at the cast in action!

Comedian, actor and writer, Brian Posehn, will visit Comix At Foxwoods for the first time with a four show lineup next February. With performances Thursday, Feb. 20 through Saturday, Feb. 22, Posehn will perform at 8 p.m. nightly, before finishing the weekend on Feb. 22 with a 'nasty'-themed showcase at 10:30 p.m.

JemmThree, the UK's first 24/7 radio station dedicated to musical theatre, is having a Musical Theatre Christmas by raising the curtain on nine musicals, with many narrated by the shows' own writing teams.

Comedian, actor and writer, Brian Posehn, will visit Comix At Foxwoods for the first time with a four show lineup next February. With performances Thursday, Feb. 20 through Saturday, Feb. 22, Posehn will perform at 8 p.m. nightly, before finishing the weekend on Feb. 22 with a 'nasty'-themed showcase at 10:30 p.m.

The most Scrooge among us would crack a smile at Center Rep's 'A Christmas Carol.' Although the old miser may balk at the cost of extravagant special affects and lovely costumes, or even at the time-honored message of hope and love, it's impossible to avoid laughing when the unseen Ghost of Christmas Present knocks a cup of punch from an overconfident young man's hand. Or consider the confetti that shoots out into the audience and the snow that gently falls down to cheerful faces.

What can I say about this show - it instantly puts you in the Christmas spirit and has the audience transfixed from beginning to end.

REPUBLIC RECORDS will release Music from the Motion Picture - ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES today, December 17. Meanwhile, ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES from Paramount Pictures hits theaters this holiday season.

REPUBLIC RECORDS and BRUSHFIRE RECORDS are proud to announce The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture soundtrack.

This production is filled with so many novel approaches while maintaining the classic's integrity, that viewing it was much like unwrapping a gift. And don't let its humble 8 member cast fool you- good things do come in small packages. Arguably the best set designer in town, Michael S. Brewer creates a first impression in his lovely 1940's abandoned London theater set that immediately intrigues audience members as being both non-traditional and perfect, all at once. Director Joe Bishara combines the traditional tale with Patrick Barlow's twist- a group of actors who perform the play in said abandoned theater, and creates memorable scenes with a dynamic cast of only a few performers who play multiple roles, and a vintage marionette utilized as Tiny Tim.

Apparently quite a few (more than 250,000 have seen the Michael Wilson adaptation getting its 16th run at Hartford Stage). This year's annual holiday tradition gets a bit of an update, all supervised by Wilson and directed by Maxwell Williams, that includes redesigned costumes; enhanced flying effects and choreography for the ghostly apparitions; the introduction of additional characters; and the latest in lighting design technology.

Though this is likely one of the smaller-scale 'Christmas Carols' offered in Rhode Island this season, Artists' Exchange does the tale proud, and the ensemble's very enjoyable performance absolutely comes from the heart.

A lively musical adaptation of the classic Dickens tale. Follow along with Ebenezer Scrooge as he is visited by four ghosts; his old business partner Marley, the ghost of Christmas past, present and future. See what happens when he gets a glimpse of his own future if he doesn't change his life. Will Scrooge catch the holiday spirit and save himself in the process? Find out by joining us for this special holiday show with a story so warm it will melt the cold heart of even the grumpiest Scrooge!

L.A.'s Hottest New Holiday Tradition A CHRISTMAS CAROL: TWIST YOUR DICKENS! Returns to CTG's Kirk Douglas Theatre for a Limited Run through December 29, 2013.

Holiday theatrical traditions are alive and well at ACT but the two shows playing couldn't be more different from each other. First off with their 38th annual production, ACT presents the classic “A Christmas Carol” with all the polish and flash that you've come to expect. And then with their 13th installment, Peggy Platt and Lisa Koch (AKA Dos Fallopia) present their irreverent sketch comedy show “Ham for the Holidays: Close Encounters of the Pork Rind”. I managed to see both in one night (it's possible but it's tight) and I went from sobbing to belly laughs that amounted to a lovely evening of holiday treats.

Universal Orlando's CityWalk will undergo a historic expansion during 2014 - all part of an epic year for Universal that will include the opening of the destination's largest hotel, Universal's Cabana Bay Beach Resort, and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley.

A Christmas Carol Musical is playing at the The Players Theater on 115 Macdougal Street in NYC.

In a golden anniversary season celebrating the theatre's past, present and future, there is little dust on this perennial favorite

One of the first theater influences for me as a kid wasn't a play or musical, but a touring company of Alvin Ailey Company that came through Jones Hall in Houston Texas. By the end of the solo piece "Cry," I was in tears, baffled by how I'd just watched a three act play with no words being spoken. The shifts from love and defiance were dizzying at times, but never melodramatic. And the storytelling was rooted in such truth that carried a legacy of history of those who had danced the piece before her. Flash forward to my first trip to New York in Junior Year of High School where I took a very expensive nap during one of my first Broadway shows until a helicopter onstage woke me up. It was no fault of the actors for not holding the interest of an over-stimulated teenager, but in hindsight, I could see how technology and budget robbed the intimacy of the story being told.