Mix Dickens with Dante, then sprinkle in some offbeat celestial humor à la “Good Omens,” and you’ll get something like “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol.” Written by Tom Mula, this solo play follows the ...

Marley was dead.” Those are the first words of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, although he still pops up again a couple of times: Scrooge sees his old partner’s face in the door knocker, looking ...

Chicago actor Tom Mula played Scrooge for several years in the 90s in the Goodman’s production of A Christmas Carol. While embodying the old miser, Mula also turned his attentions to the first ghost ...

“Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that,” is our introduction to Jacob Marley, whose ghost helps former business partner Ebenezer Scrooge find redemption in the enduring ...

There is already magic in the Charles Dickens tale of the cantankerous old Ebenezer Scrooge being transported from past to present to future one Christmas Eve to help him adjust his outlook on life.

Unlike one of my colleagues, I rather rate Dickens’ literary output (while condemning his attitude to women) but have a general suspicion of Mark Gatiss: his collaborations with Steven Moffat, which ...