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Review: Zach Theatre’s A Christmas Carol
Boisterous but shallow jukebox musical of Dickens’ classic misses opportunities
Charles Dickens
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Season’s Greetings From Dueling Dickens
Two gifts to Austin audiences as Zach Theatre and Penfold Theatre present their own versions of A Christmas Carol
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Review: Hideout Theatre’s Bah, Humbug!
Fun Dickensian long-form is a short-term cure for the pandemic blues
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Charles Dickens’ Prolific Work Comes to Several Austin Stages
There’s more than Scrooge on Austin stages this holiday season – which is just as his creator would want it
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The Haunted Bookshelf
Heavens, this series of reprints of vintage ghost stories may unsettle the composure of the steadiest reader
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Variations on Carol of the Bells
Mermen, movies, and Whitney pulled me under for Christmas
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Arts Review
The State Theater Company brings its artistry to bear on that most conventional show of the season, ‘A Christmas Carol,’ and delivers a perfectly packaged production
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Arts Review
Rupert Holmes’ adaptation of ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ has more to do with Victorian music hall entertainment than Dickensian literature – and is all the more engaging for it
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Arts Review
Two rather different versions of ‘A Christmas Carol’
illustrate the power still to be tapped from Charles
Dickens’ ghostly little book