These two portly gentlemen have made a list of establishments to visit and solicit for donations. They approach their charity work like they do their businesses, with organized efficiency.

The most illuminating take on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” in a while is, for the first five minutes, lit by just two small candles. Director Michael Arden’s crackling version ...

As I do every December, I have been enjoying rereading “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. This year I’ve been thinking about Scrooge’s interaction with the two portly gentlemen who ...

FILE - Jefferson Mays arrives at the "I Am the Night" FYC event in Los Angeles on May 9, 2019. Mays, who won a Tony Award for playing 40 characters in “I Am My Own Wife” and was nominated for ...

ON THE CUSP of the season of Thanksgiving, Hanukah, and Christmas--the days of generosity--there are two great passages from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol which deserve rereading, especially ...

The 'Christmas Carol' curmudgeon is a forward-thinking liberal. Skip Navigation ... Still, in the opening "stave," as Dickens calls his chapters, two portly gentlemen call on Scrooge & Marley, ...

The London street ensemble in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", a Syracuse Stage/SU Drama co-production running through Dec. 29. When two portly gentlemen in Charles Dickens' 1843 classic, "A ...

We all know Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." The book was written in a few short weeks in the fall of 1843. Dickens' bank account needed a quick cash infusion. But there is more to the story ...