Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” A Solo Tour with Neil McGarry
Directed by Ross MacDonald, starring Actor Neil McGarry
2026 13th Season Tour:
Friday, November 27 & 28, 7 pm; Sunday, November 29, 2 pm
Auburn Public Theatre, Auburn, NY
Tickets: advance online $25, at the door $32
Sunday, December 6, 2 pm
The Rogue Theatre, Tucson, AZ
Tickets: $49
Monday, December 7, 3 and 7 pm
Community Performance & Art Center, Green Valley, AZ
Tickets: $32
Wednesday, December 9, 7 pm
Newton Presbyterian Church, Newton, MA
Tickets: TBA
Thursday, December 10, and Saturday, December 12, 2:30 pm
Saco River Theatre, Buxton, ME
Tickets: $25
Friday, December 11, 7 pm
Thacher Hall, Yarmouth Port, MA
Tickets: $25
Sunday, December 13, 3 pm
Spire Center for Performing Arts, Plymouth, MA
Tickets: $29-34
Friday, December 18, 8 pm and Saturday, December 19, 2 pm
Vokes Players Theatre, Wayland, MA
Tickets: TBA
Sunday, December 20, 3 pm
Sandwich Arts Alliance’s Glasstown Stage, Sandwich, MA
Tickets: $30 members, $25 non-members
Wednesday, December 23, 7 pm
Hyannis Arts Hall, 81 Willow Avenue, Hyannis, MA
Tickets: $32-35
Run time: 2 hours, including a 10-minute intermission
Actor Neil McGarry tours his award-winning solo performance of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” for the thirteenth year, across the U.S. in December 2026. 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.
For the last twelve years, December has found McGarry, lugging his trunk, on the road with “A Christmas Carol.” He began in 2013, touring Cape Cod and Massachusetts’s South Shore. By 2018 and 2019, “A Christmas Carol” was being seen on stages across the European continent, as well as Ireland and the U.K., with performances in Innsbruck, Dublin, London, Bath, Basel, Brunico, Dusseldorf, Geneva, Co. Leitrim, and Prague. From 2021 to 2025, McGarry was on the road here at home for five sold-out seasons. This year’s tour begins in upstate New York at the Auburn Public Theatre, then heads west to Arizona with performances at the Rogue Theatre in Tucson and CPAC in Green Valley, before returning home to New England for performances at Newton Presbyterian Church; Saco River Theatre in Buxton, Maine; Spire Center for Performing Arts in Plymouth; Vokes Players Theatre in Wayland; and on Cape Cod at Thacher Hall in Yarmouth Port, Sandwich Arts Alliance at the Glasstown Stage in Sandwich, and Hyannis Arts Hall.
About Neil McGarry
A professional actor for over thirty years, Neil McGarry received his training at the National Shakespeare Conservatory and is the founder and former Artistic Director of The Bay Colony Shakespeare Company. Recent work includes “The Weight” (with Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is currently playing in cinemas; N. Richard Nash’s “The Rainmaker” (Hyannis Arts Hall, Plymouth Center for the Arts, and Glasstown Stage); Noël Coward’s “Private Lives” (Saco River Theatre); “Eine Billion Dollars” and “Miss Fallaci” (as actor Joseph Cotten) for Paramount Plus, streaming on Apple TV; “Masas/Sisters” (“Best Film” and “Best Director” at the Warsaw International Film Festival, and multiple other awards in film festivals across Europe); and “Hill of Vision.” “Sisters” and “Hill of Vision” are currently streaming on Amazon Prime. McGarry has made multiple appearances with the Cape Symphony, Plymouth Philharmonic, and the Fremont Symphony in California. For more information, visit neilmcgarry.com.