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 Chimes," ...

An actor at the Dickens Museum in London is delivering dramatic performances of the classic holiday tale, just like the ...

"Marley was dead, to begin with."It's six words that, even now, create a stir. With those words, a reader immediately will go to the story written by Charles Dickens. One hundred eighty years ago, on ...

Such was the success of 'A Christmas Carol' that the four festive stories Dickens published after it-some overlooked classics, others critical flops and missteps-have since largely become eclipsed by ...

Seventy years ago, in 1954, the late critic Eleanor Farjeon wrote an introduction to “Christmas Books by Charles Dickens” in which she stated of the five books, “The Cricket on the Hearth” (written in ...

“The Chimes” was Dickens’ second Christmas yarn, and was published in 1844. Toby Veck, a poor working man who loses his faith in human nature, is Dickens’ chief subject. “The Cricket on the Hearth” ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Over three decades, Sally Vahle has played Scrooge, ghosts and many of the other characters in Dallas Theater Center’s annual production of the ...

Will Todd’s musical telling of the story… captures the spirit of the tale perfectly” ★★★★ (Music OMH). Returning in 2025 due to popular demand, Will Todd’s “poignant” (MusicOMH) musical retelling of A ...