Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character)

Felicia P. Fields and E. Faye Butler, both longtime stars of Chicago theater, are to be the stars of the 2012 Goodman Theatre production of Regina Taylor's "Crowns" next summer, the theater said Tuesday.  The pair of much-loved divas will be joined by a...

Violence, revenge and a dose of Jane Austen highlight the 2012-13 season from Orlando Shakespeare Theater. The theater company announced its scheduled Wednesday evening during a presentation at its home base, the Lowndes Shakespeare Center in Orlando's...

"Make Me a Supermodel" runner-up, Playgirl model and Chicago native Ronnie Kroell is starring in a new movie, "Scrooge & Marley," that will be filmed in Chicago. "Scrooge & Marley" tweaks Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" with a gay...

Audiences in Orange County perhaps best know actor Hal Landon Jr. as the mainstay of South Coast Repertory Theater Co.'s annual production of "A Christmas Carol." The veteran of the SCR stage, who was one of the company's founding members in the 1960s,...

I found the topic for the beginning of today’s article by being a friend of the Clark County Public Library on Facebook. If you have not done that yet, take a few moments to do so the next time you’re in your Facebook account. It will...

Continued from last week’s column: The judge peered above his spectacles, fixating on the mustard stain on my sweatshirt. He wanted an explanation. “Your honor, extra mustard on a Berge’s sandwich,” I said. Would justice prevail...

When producers asked me to compile a list of the best holiday films, I didn’t think that would be very fun. Everybody has seen Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life a million times. I remember when I worked morning radio, we did a...

I was stuck in a Christmas dream as imagined by the great Charles Dickens, and the further I fell into the soul of Ebenezer Scrooge, the more I pitied him. Suddenly there was a piercing ring. Its persistence caught my attention. A phone that rings in...

Every year at this time, I revisit one of my favorite Christmas stories, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." One scene never fails to stir my conscience. In it, two men soliciting donations for the poor approach the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, telling...

Tickets are on sale for the Harbor Springs Middle School production of "A Christmas Carol," with show times on Friday through Sunday, Dec. 9-11, according to a Harbor Springs Public Schools news release. The play, adapted from Charles Dickens' classic...

After staging the same production for more than three decades, a theater company might be expected to "phone it in," to go through the well-established motions that have worked for longer than most of their actors have been on this planet. Not South...

Composer Bob Christianson is nothing if not versatile. He wrote a lot of pulsating music that accompanied episodes about several, um, energetic women in New York on the HBO series "Sex and the City." He has provided themes for Travel Channel's "Mysteries...