A Ghost Story at Alexandra Palace review — slick but not spooky enough - 3/5 Mark Gatiss’ version of the Dickens classic is in a spectacular setting but fatally fails to deliver the scares ...

Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But in 19th-century London, it went viral. When Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol, the book's tale of miserly ...

PIQUA — Carol Ann Baumhauer, 76, passed away peacefully after a long courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease, on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. She was born July 14, 1948, in McDonald, to the late Lloyd ...

Celebrate the holidays and recapture the spirit of an old-fashioned Christmas with the annual staging of this timeless Dickens classic with Hal Landon Jr. as the West Coast's longest-running Scrooge.

Luke Evans voices the title character in this animated version, also featuring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Jonathan Pryce. By Frank Scheck It’s hard to tell exactly whether Netflix’s new ...

Carol Linda Ghilardi Dec. 24, 1948 – Oct. 3, 2012 Resident of Pleasanton, CA Born on Christmas Eve, in Burlingame, CA, Carol was a surprise gift to her parents, John and Elizabeth Aguiar, as they had ...

With the exception of the 2020-21 season that fell in the thick of the pandemic, Portland Playhouse has produced A Christmas Carol every season since its sixth in 2013-14. That season followed a ...

Mr. Rosenblatt is an author of memoirs, novels and meditations, the most recent of which is “A Steinway on the Beach: Wounds and Other Blessings.” Since its publication in December 1843, “A Christmas ...

Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol is a timeless classic — the constant retelling of which has warmed families' hearts by the Christmas Eve fire. The story has everything: musings on ...

Whether it's The Muppets, "Scrooged" or George C. Scott, almost everyone has a template for "A Christmas Carol" already in their minds. Tina Dale, co-director of the Fort Smith Little Theatre ...

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is the greatest story about Christmas ever written—even better than the one with Mary and Joseph and the manger. The 1843 tale of a miser browbeaten by ...

NEW YORK — To hear Philip Palmer, the literary curator at the Morgan Library & Museum tell it, the story behind the writing of "A Christmas Carol" sounds, well, like something out of Charles Dickens.