Sun., Dec. 14, 3 p.m., Fri., Dec. 19, 8 p.m., Sat., Dec. 20, 8 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 21, 3 p.m.
Theater
CENTERstage Productions brings A Christmas Story to the stage, in Philip Grecian’s faithful adaptation of the 1983 film—Jean Shepherd’s gently anarchic Midwestern childhood filtered through tinsel, BB-gun longing, and the belief that a single Christmas morning can change a boy’s life. Under the direction of Rik Lopes, the production leans into Shepherd’s lived-in humor: the coal-fumed furnace that detonates without warning, the neighborhood bully Scut Farkas lurking like a ginger menace, the great tongue-to-lamppost experiment, and of course the Old Man’s infamous “major award,” that fishnet-clad lamp glowing like a beacon of suburban triumph. At the center is nine-year-old…
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