Santa Claus News

The multi-award-winning NoHo Arts Center Ensemble (NoHo ACE) presents the return of its smash-hit, critically-acclaimed original musical, perfect for the whole family this holiday season, YO HO HO! A PIRATE'S CHRISTMAS.

With its annual rebroadcast of Santa Claus is Comin' to Town and CMA Country Christmas, ABC earned second place on Thursday night with viewers and young adults, while finishing #1 with Kids 2-11.

There are two ways to celebrate the holidays at DSI Comedy Theater this year. This year, the theatre is welcoming audiences into the theatre for Home for the Holidays, an improvised comedy show and a Holiday Sketchtravaganza, a series of holiday related comic sketches. The shows run every Friday, throughout December. The tickets cost $10 and are available online at www.dsicomedy.com or by calling 919-338-8150. DSI Comedy Theater is located at 200 N. Greensboro Street, located in the Carr Mill Mall between Elmo's and Southern Rail.

The Buck Creek Players are set to welcome The Winter Wonderettes for this holiday season.

Beginning Thursday, December 1 through Friday, December 30, The RRazz Room will celebrate its first annual 'Season of Giving,' a benefit to raise funds for San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits making a difference in our communities.

The North Carolina Symphony will offer Triangle audiences a joyous musical celebration of the holidays just in time for Christmas.

Popcorn Hat Players Presents ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas on December 1 - 22.

ABC Family's '25 Days of Christmas,' cable's biggest programming event of the year, returns with 25 continuous days of holiday-themed entertainment for the whole family. From December 1 - 25, viewers can ring in the holidays with original movies, holiday specials and returning favorites

The New-York Historical Society, one of America's pre-eminent cultural institutions, is dedicated to fostering research, presenting history and art exhibitions, and public programs that reveal the dynamism of history and its influence on the world of today.

Neil Patrick Harris, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Alfred Molina are among those set to voice key characters for the half-hour animated Christmas special, YES, VIRGINIA, presented by Macy's, to be rebroadcast Friday, December 9 (9:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network.

The ABC Television Network will celebrate the joy of the holidays with the classic animated Christmas-themed PEANUTS special, 'A Charlie Brown Christmas', created by late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, airing THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET). The hour will also include 'Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa, a seven-minute animated short featuring the voice of Betty White as Mrs. Claus.

The ABC Television Network will celebrate the joy of the holidays with the classic animated Christmas-themed PEANUTS special, 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' (rebroadcast; OAD on ABC: 12/6/01), created by late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, airing THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET). The hour will also include 'Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa' (rebroadcast; OAD on ABC 12/7/10), the seven-minute animated short featuring the voice of Betty White as Mrs. Claus.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre presents its audience with the ultimate Christmas present - the return of the Reduced Shakespeare Company and the East Coast premiere of 'The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged).' All of your favorite holiday characters - Baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Santa Claus, and the Bee Gees - make an appearance. Bring an inexpensive wrapped gift to participate in the St. Everybody's Gift Exchange at intermission.

The CBS Television Network will present an encore of THE ELF ON THE SHELF: AN ELF'S STORY, an animated feature based on the best-selling holiday children's book The Elf on the Shelf, to be rebroadcast on CBS as a special presentation on Friday, Dec. 9 (9:30 - 10:00 PM, ET/PT). (Originally broadcast 11/25/11.)

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre launched its Children Theatre in 1996 with an original production of Sleeping Beauty.

The navigational prowess of 'the most famous reindeer of all' will again illuminate Santa Claus' way into the Christmas season, on a rebroadcast of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, tonight from 8:00-9:01 PM, ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.

Papatango have teamed up with one of London's leading new writing venues, the Finborough Theatre to present the winning entries in the 2011 Papatango Playwriting Competition 2011, featuring this year's winning play Foxfinder by Dawn King which will play for a four week limited season from 29 November (Press Night: Thursday, 1 December 2011 at 8.30pm) and three runners up who will each receive a one week run - Through The Night by Matt Morrison (Press Night: Wednesday, 7 December 2011 at 6.30pm), Rigor Mortis by Carol Vine (Press Night: Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 6.30pm) and Crush by Rob Young (Press Night: Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 6.30pm).