“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 ...

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 ...

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and ...

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 ...

Like many people during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tom Allen used unexpected downtime to chase a lifelong dream. The result was Arlington Brewing Company.Since opening, Allen has released more than a ...

Melbourne Civic Theatre is presenting a staged reading of "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol" through Dec. 21. The play retells the classic holiday story from the perspective of Ebenezer Scrooge's ...

CHICAGO—Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” opens with the famous line “Marley was dead: to begin with. ... Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.” By creating an air of finality in the first ...