It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play Nov. 23-Dec. 23 The Pollard Theatre 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie thepollard.org 405-282-2800 $15-$30 Guthrie’s Pollard Theatre Company has been staging A Territorial Christmas Carol for 30 years, but this year, artistic director W. Jerome Stevenson said the company just couldn’t do it. There was what Stevenson described […]
Charles Dickens
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Holidays: Miser’s journey
A Christmas Carol Nov. 23-Dec. 24 Lyric at the Plaza 1727 NW 16th St. lyrictheatreokc.com 405-524-9310 $25-$61 Some people — Ebenezer Scrooge, for example — would rather pay to build more prisons than to feed and shelter the hungry and homeless. “Are there no prisons?” asks Scrooge in response to a charity collector’s pleas on […]
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Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma performs a classic that revives the Christmas spirit
Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma performs a classic that revives the Christmas spirit.
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Broadway actor Dirk Lumbard stars as Scrooge in Lyric Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol
Lyric asked Lumbard to play Scrooge in the past, but this is the first year the actor could fit it into his schedule.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Despite leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood incomplete when he died in 1870 (of all the nerve!), the book has hit the screen about half a dozen times since, most recently this two-hour version from the BBC, now on Blu-ray fresh from airing on PBS’ esteemed, enduring Masterpiece Classic showcase. Edwin Drood (Freddie Fox, The […]
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Don’t be a Scrooge
Lyric Theatre presents an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic that, through humor and poignancy, will delight even us professional Scrooges. It’s two hours of purely enjoyable theater. When working with such dreadfully familiar, albeit first-class, material as “A Christmas Carol,” the challenge for an adapter and director is to make the story fresh. Artistic director […]
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Like the Dickens
Director Hal Kohlman has delivered a solid take on a slightly retooled adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” penned by D. Lance Marsh, artistic director of TheatreOCU, who also stars as Ebenezer Scrooge. Devoid of friendship, love or charity, miserly businessman Scrooge is warned by the specter of his former business partner that if […]
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Like the Dickens
Director Hal Kohlman has delivered a solid take on a slightly retooled adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” penned by D. Lance Marsh, artistic director of TheatreOCU, who also stars as Ebenezer Scrooge. Devoid of friendship, love or charity, miserly businessman Scrooge is warned by the specter of his former business partner that if […]
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Don’t be a Scrooge
Lyric Theatre presents an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic that, through humor and poignancy, will delight even us professional Scrooges. It’s two hours of purely enjoyable theater. When working with such dreadfully familiar, albeit first-class, material as “A Christmas Carol,” the challenge for an adapter and director is to make the story fresh. Artistic director […]
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Dickensian delight
The Pollard Theatre continues its 25th season with the Tony-winning 1985 musical comedy “Drood: The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Written by musician Rupert Holmes, “Drood” is inspired by Charles Dickens’ final, unfinished, novel. Its conceit is that the production is being mounted by the loony Victorian troupe Music Hall Royale, with all the actors impressively […]