The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis has staged A Christmas Carol at least ten times since 1972. This 1978 production was by playwright Barbara Field. Poster design by Paul Davis.

As a stage piece, A Christmas Carol has been far more popular in the 20th and 21st centuries than it ever was in the 19th. Inevitably it appears in profusion every Christmas and its adaptations, professional and amateur, are uncountable. Since 1844, the stage has brought Ebenezer Scrooge, the Fezziwigs, the ghosts, and Tiny Tim to life for untold masses of theatregoers. In New York alone, over 2 million people have attended the annual production of A Christmas Carol at the Theater at Madison Square Garden since it opened in December of 1994. Doubtless, A Christmas Carol is Dickens’s most famous book and through stage, film, television and text, its images have become icons in popular culture throughout the world. 

Several other of Dickens’s shorter works such as The Cricket on the Hearth and The Chimes have also enjoyed some popularity on the stage.

Montage of A Christmas Carol programs from around the world.