Dating back to 1867, when the Freedmen’s Bureau organized the first parade, picnic, and festival in Austin, there has been a celebration of Juneteenth in the historically African American Eastside ...

We owe a lot to Charles Dickens and his invention of the modern spirit of Christmas. Without him and A Christmas Carol, what would ... Marley’s ghost appears to show Ebenezer Scrooge the misery ...

By Michael Paulson Reporting from Dallas Sally Nystuen Vahle bursts into “A Christmas Carol” from some hellscape beneath Ebenezer Scrooge’s bed, snarling as a wretched, writhing ghost with ...

There is not, in all literature, a book more thoroughly saturated with the spirit of its subject than Dickens’s “Christmas Carol,” and ... discipline whereby the ghosts arouse his heart ...

Image: public domain A Christmas Carol is one of the greatest stories of all time. So much so, it's actually difficult to imagine it as a newborn piece of work, free from the universal prestige it ...

I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of Ironmongery ... is officially "A Chrismas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas." ...

“The Muppet Christmas Carol,” starring Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge is a retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale, featuring the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and ...

To be able to present Dickens' entire 'Ghost Story of Christmas' by heart and capture 50 characters by action and emotion is a feat to behold. Charles Dickens’ classic novella A Christmas Carol has ...

With its responsive stage setting and quick flow of set pieces ... s Ghost of Christmas Present can be felt in every laugh and proclamation as she captures the audience’s attention on stage. Aside ...

The piece harkens ... be wooed by ghosts and the age-old Dickens tale that celebrates the cheer and comradery that rests at the core of Christmas. Michael Russotto in "A Christmas Carol: A Ghost ...

Mays will be premiering a new stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol ... art of storytelling and the theater of the imagination. “There won’t be any set pieces ...

Erik Thomson as Scrooge in ‘A Christmas Carol ... I was struck by just how comedic this piece is at times; Scrooge cutting off Fred’s (Kaya Byrne) heartfelt speech during the Christmas party scene, ...