"Summoners Ensemble Theatre presents its thirteenth annual "A Christmas Carol" (through Dec. 27), set within the frame of a real-life visit that Dickens made to New York in December, 1867, to give a reading of his story. The show's venue, Merchant's House, is a landmarked nineteenth-century home whose damask drapes and gaslit chandelier supply period vibes-for anyone really wanting to feel them, select performances include a reception with mulled wine."
"Also in its thirteenth installment is the less conventional "Thirty Years Christmas Carol" (Ars Nova; Dec. 8-9), an annual series that began in 2013 and will continue through 2042. Every year, the same couple-played by Andrew Farmer and Ryann Weir-age in real time as they navigate the vicissitudes of life, which so far have included a pandemic, a marriage, and a baby. But regardless of what's going on in their lives, they always make a point of reading Dickens's story aloud together over the holidays."
New York offers several distinct productions of A Christmas Carol this season. PAC NYC stages an immersive, lantern-lit adaptation by Matthew Warchus and Jack Thorne that includes gingerbread cookies and clementines for the audience; the adaptation premiered at the Old Vic in 2017, has been revived annually in London, and has toured widely, with Michael Cerveris starring as Ebenezer Scrooge in the current run. Summoners Ensemble Theatre mounts a thirteenth annual performance set in Merchant's House, evoking nineteenth-century period detail and offering mulled-wine receptions for select shows. Ars Nova continues the Thirty Years Christmas Carol series, in which the same couple ages in real time and reads Dickens aloud each holiday.
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