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A Christmas Carol, Dominion Theatre review - brash and bustling and snowy, too
Dickens redux, noisily but with brio
by Matt WolfTuesday, 15 December 2020
The twelve days of Christmas have nothing on the flotilla of
Christmas Carols jostling for view this season, each of which is substantially different enough from the next so as to give Dickens s 1843 story its prismatic due.
The twelve days of Christmas have nothing on the flotilla of
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On paper, a high-octane staged concert of Charles Dickensâ Christmas story may not be for purists. But in the flesh, this loud, rollicking, sometimes garish crowdpleaser that falls just short of caricature, could not better summon the spirit of an author who delighted in showmanship, from singing on pub table-tops as a child to the theatrical jamboree of his reading tours at the height of his fame.
With only two weeks of rehearsals squeezed in before opening night and now a victim of tier 3 closures, this is a riotous affair, with the budget of a ritzy West End show, the schmaltz of Disney and a heart that belongs in an East End musical hall.
SDCF Announces Host Venues for Lloyd Richards New Futures Residency Program
The two host venues are Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles and Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.by BWW News Desk
SDCF has announced two host venues for its Lloyd Richards New Futures Residency program: Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles; and Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. In this inaugural year, the company s respective artistic directors, Michael John Garcés and Nataki Garrett, will each mentor a visionary mid-career Black director or choreographer for one year while the resident undertakes their own artistic projects at the host venue.