Christmases past, present and future have one thing in common: Someone, somewhere will be staging Charles Dickens’ seasonal favorite “A Christmas Carol.” It’s that creaky over-familiarity that lets Patrick Barlow (“The 39 Steps”) and director Phelim McDermot send up the story without breaking it. Their cod-Victorian staging revels in its own shoddy theatricality, as wigs... Read more »![]()
