Articles Tagged With: holidays

Santa Claus is Comin’: A Motown Christmas Revue

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Gifts I’m preparing for some Christmas sharing— but I pause because—

Hanging my stocking, I can hear a knocking— ‘zat you, Santa Claus?

Ho-ho-no! It’s one better! It’s Baltimore Center Stage with their festive holiday offering: Santa Claus is Comin’: A Motown Christmas Revue, created by Nygel D. Robinson & Ken-Matt Martin. Co-Directed by Ken-Matt Martin and Victor Musoni, this quick-paced musical revue promises that you will meet joy along the evening’s path,

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Angelina Greenleaf, Darcella Owens, Mackenzie Ruszkowski, Ellison Bihm, Braden Ruszkowski, Andrew Greenleaf in A Christmas Carol at Silver Spring Stage 📷 John Cholod

A Christmas Carol at Silver Spring Stage

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I was asked at the intermission of opening night of A Christmas Carol at Silver Spring Stage, by a fellow who was either meant to be a Dickensian business fellow of sorts, or was perhaps trying to be Mr. Dickens himself (unclear as to which), what my favorite Charles Dickens story was. I’m certain he was expecting me to say Oliver Twist or Great Expectations maybe even a cheeky response of A Christmas Carol.

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The Grinch Tea: A Holiday Hoorayness Experience at Street Lamp Community Theatre

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‘Twas the night before opening and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a—

Whoops. Not that one. Lemme try again.

Marley was dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his—

Oh. Oh… not that one either? (Whew!) Let’s see…uh—

All I want for Christmas is a Red-Ryder Carbine Action BB Gun— no way, kid, you’ll shoot your—

Still no!?

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The Long Christmas Ride Home at The Strand Theater 📷 Shealyn Jae Photography

The Long Christmas Ride Home at The Strand Theater

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author: Erin Tarpley

“Well, what a lovely Christmas you’ve given me”

The weather outside is frightful, but inside The Stand Theater, tidings of comfort and joy are complex and raw (and theatric!) in their opening production of their 18th season.

Directed by Tessara Morgan Farley, Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home is not merely a play: it is a profound, breathtaking piece of theatrical artistry that transcends the familiar boundaries of the American family drama.

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Oz Heiligman (left) as Young Edgar and Ian Blackwell Rogers (right) as Edgar Allan Poe in A Christmas Carol for Edgar Allan Poe 📷 Alan Kayanan

A Christmas Carol For Edgar Allan Poe at The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre

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“Bills don’t care about the holidays, Virginia.” Not quite the same ring as that line about truly there is a Santa Claus. But then again, this isn’t exactly your grandfolks’ Christmas Carol either. A glorious blending of the macabre meets the holidays, which is sort of what Dickens intended when he wrote A Christmas Carol so many Christmas pasts’ ago, or at least that’s how it turned out— what with the ghosts and all.

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A Christmas Carol at The Colonial Players of Annapolis: A Holiday Tradition

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In the 10,000 or so productions of A Christmas Carol that I’ve seen over my ~15 years a reviewer, I have never seen one (and I’ve even seen the Richard Wade-Richard Gessner adaptation at Colonial Players a time or two before…) that had such a strikingly profound moment— a momentary minutia that hit with such heartfelt intent that I both gasped and wept in utter shock. But let’s back it up in true Dickensian style.

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Gregory Burgess (center) as Scrooge and the cast of Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s A Christmas Carol 📷Kiirstn Pagan Photography.

A Christmas Carol at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

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Tis the season of hospitality, merriment, and openheartedness! Come in and know them better, man! Tis the season— their 11th, in fact— for putting that timeless holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, upon their stage. Tis the season for uplifting spirits, for heartwarming festivities, and for radical, positive change. Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s A Christmas Carol is truly a cherished stage tradition, nestled right in the heart of Charm City and is bringing jubilation amid the bleakness that 2025 has turned out to be;

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That National Tour of 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas' 📷 Jeremy Daniel

How The Grinch Stole Christmas at The Hippodrome

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author: Leonard Taube

“Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot.  But the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville did not”.  Sound familiar?  No?  Then go back to sleep.  Don’t read any more.  But for those of you whose mother might have read the famed Dr. Seuss book How The Grinch Stole Christmas to you when you were a child (it was written in 1957 believe it or not),

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