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Ken Orman, who plays Scrooge in an upcoming production at Stephens Auditorium, pivoted from banking to acting. Learn more ...

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge written in 1843, is one of the most familiar literary works in the English language. Though Eleanor Farjeon wrote in an ...

Over the years since Charles Dickens first published A Christmas Carol in 1843, there have been hundreds of adaptations, from silent to sound and animated films to stage productions. Hundreds of ...

Ron Megee as Ebenezer Scrooge is tormented by three spirits on Christmas Eve in the Unicorn Theatre’s campy production of "Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big KC MO Christmas Show.” "Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big KC MO ...

Each year come the holidays, stage productions pop up across the country, and the Nocturne Theatre in Glendale is no exception. MADAM SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL flips the script a bit, ...

Willem Dafoe is circling the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in Robert Eggers’ shadowy reimagining of "A Christmas Carol" at Warner Bros. Details are under wraps, but the project promises a darker twist on ...

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and ...

The Kansas Statehouse Christmas tree stands illuminated on Dec. 4, 2024. (Photo by Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) There’s a reason Ebenezer Scrooge hovers over Christmas. English author Charles ...

Every December, we dust off "A Christmas Carol" and remind ourselves that Ebenezer Scrooge was redeemed not by becoming poor, but by remembering the people who made his wealth possible. That detail ...

The vibrant, and emotionally adept cast, dynamic set, and period accurate stage visuals, are all evidence that this was a ...