Summary
With at least four productions and counting, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" still reigns as the area's most frequently produced holiday theater production.
Those who like the tried and true will also find that "Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold" is spending its third holiday in residence at City Theatre on the South Side. The African American Council of the Arts' offering of "Christmas Is Comin' Uptown" also is making a repeat appearance, but in a new location at Pittsburgh Playwright's Theatre, Downtown.See the full content of this document
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Comfortingly familiar holiday fodder such as "A Tuna Christmas," "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" and "Nuncrackers" also are on the schedule at theaters around the region.
Here are the details:'Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold'Back at City Theatre for a third season, Kimberly Richards reprises her role of Sister in a holiday-bedecked grade-school classroom. In this holiday edition of Maripat Donovan's comedic and nostalgic "Late Nite Catechism," the audience becomes the students in Sister's classroom. Audience members are recruited for a living nativity scene, and Sister shares some advice about gift giving (especially to a nun), rates the razzle-dazzle of holiday sweaters, and offers special insights into Christmas...See the full content of this document
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