The production will feature all-original songs and a vibrant new interpretation designed to resonate with today’s audiences.

"A Christmas Carol" is a deserving masterpiece, to be sure, Jones said, and it is astonishing that Dickens wrote it in a couple weeks longer than Christians today celebrate the Advent season.

But no Santa in any school production. However, one holiday time on a Monday, when our “A Christmas Carol” production was dark, I was asked to participate at Neiman Marcus at South Coast Plaza.

Equity actors for the role of EMILY CRATCHITT/AS CAST. *Please note this is a play with music, with folk Christmas songs ...

Hallmark Channel Favorites Tyler Hynes and When Calls the Heart star Erin Krakow are reuniting for a new Christmas movie, ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The ...

"A Christmas Carol" was published 180 years ago this year, on Dec. 19, 1843, and sold all 6,000 copies of its initial printing in five days, Palmer says.

And the direction is very fine. Arden has become a Broadway regular since his revival of “Spring Awakening” in 2015, and “A Christmas Carol” is his strongest and most confident work to date.

One that I watch every year is The Muppet Christmas Carol, released in 1992. I had it on VHS as a kid and I’ve tracked it down in other forms over the years.

The result is that FX has made a Christmas Carol that very much isn’t for children — seriously, the wee ones will be either bored or scandalized — and probably isn’t really for adults either.

Do we really need another version of “A Christmas Carol”? That’s the question facing any new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ famed 1843 novella. And for Steven Knight, the writer of the new ...