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The holiday season gets more magical as Doris Dear, America's Perfect Holiday Hostess, joins Jo Brisbane's 'Hope For The Holidays' at NYC's renowned cabaret venue.

This Christmas, the Royal Opera House is opening up a world of festivities for people of all ages to enjoy the holiday spirit. From a Christmas Cracker Family Sunday to classic performances of The Nutcracker and accessible opera for all the family, there is a way for everybody to enjoy the winter season at Covent Garden.

Join in for a heartwarming and hilarious holiday spectacular, 'Hope for the Holidays - The Wintry Mix Edition,' as we take a nostalgic trip back to 1962 America with a twist in New York City's own Don't Tell Mama!

Pantochino Productions, a professional not for profit theatre company in Milford has announced the casting of Victoria Sautee in its upcoming new musical, “Pantochino's Christmas Carol” playing December 2 through 18 at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in Milford.

Today (December 11) in live streaming: Laura Osnes, Courtney Reed and Susan Egan visit Backstage Live, and so much more!

Craft Concepts Group isn't letting the Grinch steal it's Holiday spirit. Teddy Sourias and the elves at CCG announce the season grand opening of Tinsel Christmas Pop-up at 112 S. 12th Street. New for 2020, look for a new festive over-the-top streetery, a new twinkling light display, and a brand-new charity for the Canned Good Cocktails.

The Clapham Grand has announced its post lockdown, physically distanced Christmas shows including a selection of comedy, drag, live acts, choirs and movie nights

4th Wall Theatre Company has announced several free holiday offerings for the month of December including a filmed holiday storytelling series and a virtual Christmas cocktail event. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of The Liberty Group, all of 4th Wall's holiday programming will be free to the public. 

The Magical Christmas Movie Experience returns to Manchester for Christmas 2019 with some of the best all-time festive films ever made.

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc., Milford's professional not-for-profit theatre for family audiences, has announced its 2019-20 season which includes a new musical based on the legend and lore of local landmark Charles Island. The company will continue its partnership with the Milford Arts Council with all performances at the MAC in Downtown Milford.

There's a new immersive theatrical experience at the Wren's Nest Museum in Atlanta this month, and it's definitely going to ring your Christmas bell. From the mind of visionary Atlanta director Brian Clowdus comes The Christmas Carol Experience, an interactive holiday concoction that's two parts Christmas party and one part Dickensian storytelling. The storytelling component of the evening offers little more than a wave at Dickens' frumpy and heavy-handed holiday novella, A Christmas Carol. Instead, it relies on the audience to bring a bit of working knowledge of Ebenezer Scrooge, literary history's most famous mizer, while it, bolstered by an impressive cast of five actors, provides the perfect 19th-century atmospheric backdrop, courtesy of The Wren's Nest, one of Atlanta's oldest homes with ghost-story spookiness built right in, and an abundance of holiday cheer. Here's how it works: The audience, mourners at Jacob Marley's funeral with Christmas cocktails in hand, are free to travel about the open rooms of the museum. What happens next depends on which characters are in the room. If Ebenezer and his deliciously ghostly guide, Marley, are present, the rooms offer up newly reimagined versions of Ebenezer's encounters with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. If Ebenezer and Marley are not present, the rooms offer up interactive holiday cheer - maybe a singalong or a fun game. Newsflash: If you don't end up singing a solo in a room full of strangers before you leave, you did it wrong. This unusual rendering of the holiday classic demands only five actors, and each one is up to the challenge of providing a believable, up-close-and-personal experience. Of particular note are the performances of the beautifully Bah Humbug-gy Daniel Burns in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge and an incredibly talented Jordan Patrick in the role of the doomed-for-eternity Jacob Marley. Their laudable non-verbal storytelling skills nicely supplement the thin script, leaving the audience with a rich and satisfying experience. Lilliangina Quinones, Julie Trammel Key, and Rosie Gyselinck, all playing women from Scrooge's life who take on the roles of Ebenezer's Christmas ghosts, are, in addition to carrying their equal parts of the forward movement of the story, all up to the demanding task of leading rooms full of people through carols and games while remaining firmly rooted in the 19th-century sensibilities of their characters. The production is, unarguably, a pure sensory delight. The Wren's Nest, with its creaky floorboards and weather-stained walls and ceiling, is the important sixth character in this cast, and it is impressive in its role. In addition to the authentic Victorian oppressiveness that comes with the house, thick fog and eerie lighting aptly service the needs of the story and underscore the beauty of Clowdus's carefully crafted stage pictures. Here's a helpful tip: Follow Scrooge and Marley into the first room if you can. The experience is disorienting by nature, and following the story from beginning to end will likely quell some of the initial feelings of bewilderment you might face. But if Marley slams the door in your face while you are trying to enter that first room, as he did mine, don't fret. The story, as it is meant to do, will culminate in a softer and more charitable Scrooge, and it will leave you feeling the joy of the holiday season no matter the order in which you experience it.

Share a Gift, Share a Bite, Share Holiday Cheer at the 9th Annual Vancouver Christmas Market from Nov. 21

Manchester film fans are promised a festive treat with the announcement of the Magical Christmas Movie Experience opening in the city next month.

The festive elves are taking a break from making toys in the North Pole to put the finishing touches to the Magical Christmas Movie Experience in Manchester, which opens next weekend.

Manchester film fans are promised a festive treat with the announcement of the Magical Christmas Movie Experience opening in the city next month.