A new play making its premiere at a Connecticut theater next month aims to expand the story of a classic holiday tale. Among its actors is one of the stars of ABC's "A Million Little Things." "Scrooge ...

You know the classic Charles Dickens tale about miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future who scared him straight and motivated him to give his riches to charity ...

Marley was dead.” Those are the first words of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, although he still pops up again a couple of times: Scrooge sees his old partner’s face in the door knocker, looking ...

In this inventive and emotionally resonant twist on A Christmas Carol, Jacob Marley -Scrooge’s long-suffering and equally miserly business partner- finds himself condemned to wander the afterlife, ...

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Showing that everyone carries some guilt and sin in life, not just Scrooge (Gary Landis, center), cast members wore chains that echoed the shackles worn by the spirit of Jacob Marley. Courtesy Evelyn ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol by Tom Mula is planned for Nov. 23 through ...

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you." Thus in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol ...

Chained and shackled, Jacob Marley is condemned to a hellish eternity unless he accepts his one chance to free himself. To escape his chains, he must first redeem Scrooge. So begins a modern twist on ...