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 ...

As told by Jacob Marley (Deceased) could be summarised as a spellbinding watch, but it is also so much more. Adapted and ...

Chained and shackled, Marley is condemned to a hellish eternity. Desperate, Marley accepts his one chance to free himself: to escape his own chains, he must first redeem Scrooge. So begins a journey ...

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 ...

Phil Timberlake in Tom Mula's Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol at Lifeline Theatre Credit: Jackie Jasperson The holidays are upon us, which means memorable productions like A Christmas Carol provide the ...

In this inventive and emotionally resonant twist on A Christmas Carol, Jacob Marley -Scrooge’s long-suffering and equally miserly business partner- finds himself condemned to wander the afterlife, ...

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 ...

Melbourne Civic Theatre puts a twist on "A Christmas Carol," telling the story from Jacob Marley's perspective. The staged reading takes place Dec. 18-21.

It is one of the single most startling visions in fiction: the door knocker of Ebenezer Scrooge shapeshifting into the visage ...

Our favorite Scrooges, Marleys, Bob Cratchits and ghosts ranked in our list of the best adaptations of A Christmas Carol of ...