Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at Hyannis Arts Hall
Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol,’ A Solo Performance by Neil McGarry
Wednesday, December 23, 7 pm
Hyannis Arts Hall, 81 Willow Avenue, Hyannis
Tickets: $32-35, available at hyannisartshall.com
Run time: 2 hours, including a 10-minute intermission
Hyannis Arts Hall welcomes actor Neil McGarry and his award-winning solo performance of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” the final stop of his thirteenth annual December tour. Directed by Ross MacDonald, McGarry’s performance was named “Best of Boston” by critic Jules Becker and won “Best Solo Performance” from the Independent Reviewers of New England in 2014.
Armed only with a bare stage and Dickens’ glorious words, McGarry delivers the perennial holiday classic in a tour de force that has left audiences riveted from Boston to Prague. Joyous, witty, and captivating, “A Christmas Carol” is a fully staged, full-throated leap into Dickens’ most famous story, delivered with a simplicity that disarms and touches the heart. Boston Arts Review’s Beverly Creasey wrote that McGarry’s characters are “so sincere and innocently drawn, that you give yourself over to the story like a child.” McGarry, who appeared at Hyannis Arts Hall in N. Richard Nash’s “The Rainmaker,” returns for this one-night-only holiday performance.
McGarry began touring “A Christmas Carol” in 2013 across Cape Cod and Massachusetts’s South Shore. By 2018 and 2019, the production was seen on stages across Europe, Ireland and the U.K., with performances in Innsbruck, Dublin, London, Bath, Basel, Brunico, Dusseldorf, Geneva, Co. Leitrim, and Prague, followed by five sold-out seasons at home from 2021 to 2025. His December 2026 tour also includes stops in Arizona, New York, Maine and Massachusetts, including the Spire Center for the Arts in Plymouth, Vokes Theatre in Wayland, Thacher Hall, Sandwich Arts Alliance, and the Cotuit Center for the Arts.
A professional actor for over thirty years, McGarry trained at the National Shakespeare Conservatory and is the founder and former Artistic Director of The Bay Colony Shakespeare Company. Recent work includes N. Richard Nash’s “The Rainmaker” (Glasstown Stage), Noël Coward’s “Private Lives” (Saco River Theatre), and screen projects including “The Weight,” with Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe, “Eine Billion Dollars” and “Miss Fallaci” for Paramount Plus, and the award-winning film “Masas/Sisters.” He has made multiple appearances with the Cape Symphony, Plymouth Philharmonic, and the Fremont Symphony in California. For more information, visit neilmcgarry.com.