With Food Drive To Help Feed Our Neighbors
Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (November 25, 2025) – Third Avenue PlayWorks (TAP) is proud to announce its upcoming production of A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play, adapted for the stage by Joe Landry, Music by Kevin Connors, from the novella by Charles Dickens. The final show of the 2025 season at Third Avenue PlayWorks runs from December 3 through 28, 2025, featuring performances by Cassandra Bissell, Neil Brookshire, Ray Jivoff, Dan Klarer, and Rána Roman, with sound design and foley by Brian Grimm.
The WBFR Radio Players are back with the assistance of a gifted musician and foley artist to bring scores of colorful characters, inventive sound effects, and musical underscoring to vivid life. In this refreshed version with all new staging, the talented team of artists creates an authentic 1940’s radio experience in front of a live studio audience. This unique, family-friendly production runs one and a half hours with no intermission.
“It’s the most famous holiday story ever told and for nearly two centuries, it has endured because it reminds us that even the hardest of hearts can wake up to a second chance.” says director Elyse Edelman, “Beneath the ghosts and the carols, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is a story about someone rediscovering the parts of himself that once knew joy, connection, generosity, and love.”
If you are lifted with the spirit of generosity, please consider bringing a shelf-stable pantry item to donate to help Feed our Neighbors this holiday season. Donations can be left in the Box Office lobby through December 31 and anyone may take what they need during regular box office hours Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. or one hour prior to a performance. Donations of non-perishable food items go directly to helping our neighbors in Door County.
TAP’s own Theatre Education Program is the Community Partner for a Pay-What-You-Will Preview on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. With this program, the theatre is able to bring theatre experience to the community- regardless of age, means, or ability- through participatory classes, discussions, assembly-length shows, internships, and partnerships with civic organizations. Those interested in attending the preview to support this organization, may arrive as early as 6:30 p.m. on the evening of the performance for general admission seating. Space is available on a first come, first served basis. Donations may be made in cash or with checks made out to Third Avenue PlayWorks. Half of the proceeds will benefit this show’s Community Partner.
The production at Third Avenue Playworks is directed by Elyse Edelman with scenic design by Alex Polzin, costume design by Kärin Kopischke, lighting design by Colin Gawronskil, sound design and music by Brian Grimm, props design by Haley Anne Cranstoun, and production stage management by Kelsey Brennan York.
THE CAST
Cassandra Bissell as Sally Applewhite
Neil Brookshire as Jake Laurents
Ray Jivoff as Freddie Filmore
Dan Klarer as Harry “Jazzbo” Haywood
Rána Roman as Lana Sherwood
Brian Grimm as Foley Artist and Musician
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
December 3- 28, 2025
Wednesday-Saturday and Tuesday, December 23 evenings at 7:30 p.m.
Special matinees December 12, 24, and 26 at 2:00 p.m.
Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
- Pay-What-You-Will Preview: Wednesday, December 3 at 7:30 p.m. with half of the proceeds benefiting TAP’s Education Program
- Ticketed Preview: Thursday, December 4, 2025 (SOLD OUT)
- Opening Night Reception: Friday, December 5, 2025
- Post-Show Conversation: Friday, December 12, 2025, following 2:00 p.m. matinee
- Closing Day: Sunday, December 28, 2025
For more information about performances of A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play at Third Avenue PlayWorks or to purchase tickets, visit thirdavenueplayworks.org/a-christmas-carol-a-live-radio-play or call the box office at (920) 743-1760.
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