A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol at Spencer Theatre At Kansas City Repertory Theatre

Mark Robbins takes on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge this season at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, and the character's transformation begins with his corrosive stinginess intact. This isn't a softened portrait: Scrooge's cruelty toward anyone who crosses his ledger sets the stage for a reckoning that stretches across time itself. When the spirits arrive to drag him through past, present and future, the miser's grip on his hoarded gold becomes the measure of everything he's lost and everything he might still reclaim.

The Cratchit family offers the starkest contrast to Scrooge's bleak solitude. Their warmth and scrappy joy—embodied in Tiny Tim—become the story's moral anchor, showing what generosity looks like even when resources are scarce. Charles Dickens designed these characters to illuminate the human cost of indifference, and their presence in this Spencer Theatre production keeps that tension vivid and immediate.

Jason Chanos and Stuart Carden adapted the script, which Darrington Clark directs for Kansas City audiences. The production includes the Candlelight Carol, a musical thread that weaves through the evening and deepens the seasonal atmosphere. Hearing that particular carol performed live gives the story a local, communal texture that recordings can't replicate.

Tickets for A Christmas Carol at Kansas City Repertory Theatre put you inside Scrooge's journey from isolation to grace—grab yours for this Spencer Theatre production.