{"id":85797,"date":"2025-12-16T21:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85797\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:16:21","slug":"phantasmagoria-takes-on-the-ghostly-holiday-plays-of-charles-dickens-with-gothic-flair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85797\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantasmagoria takes on the ghostly holiday plays of Charles Dickens with gothic flair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Credit: Chris Bridges<\/p>\n

Horror theater troupe Phantasmagoria heads back to an Orlando stage, yet again bringing haunts to the holiday season. <\/p>\n

Phantasmagoria caps off 2025 with a set of live performances interpreting the morality tales of Charles Dickens, A Very Dickens Christmas! The naughtily inclined storytellers, dancers and live performers will deliver an adaptation of A Christmas Carol, plus lesser-known Dickens ghost stories like \u201cThe Haunted Man and The Ghost\u2019s Bargain,\u201d \u201cThe Goblins Who Stole a Sexton\u201d and \u201cWhat Christmas Is as We Grow Older.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perfect for raising the holiday spirits, naughty and nice alike. <\/p>\n

8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Dec. 19-20, Alexis and Jim Pugh Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave., drphillipscenter.org<\/a>, $51-$63. <\/p>\n

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This article appears in Dec. 17-23, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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