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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arlington Brewing Company’s Tom Allen gets especially sentimental this time of year. That’s because Allen, who founded Arlington Brewing Company in 2023, is a fan of the work of Charles Dickens, and ...

“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 ...

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 ...