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Determined Johnny Depp is working toward a box office comeback with Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, according to sources who ...

Each year come the holidays, stage productions pop up across the country, and the Nocturne Theatre in Glendale is no exception. MADAM SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL flips the script a bit, ...

Ron Megee as Ebenezer Scrooge is tormented by three spirits on Christmas Eve in the Unicorn Theatre’s campy production of "Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big KC MO Christmas Show.” "Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big KC MO ...

Every December, we dust off "A Christmas Carol" and remind ourselves that Ebenezer Scrooge was redeemed not by becoming poor, but by remembering the people who made his wealth possible. That detail ...

The Kansas Statehouse Christmas tree stands illuminated on Dec. 4, 2024. (Photo by Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) There’s a reason Ebenezer Scrooge hovers over Christmas. English author Charles ...

Among all the modern adaptations of A Christmas Carol, FX’s three-part TV series is far from the best. Its radical departure from Dickens feels scattergun at best, and extremely problematic at worst.

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and ...