At Irish Rep, Six Singing Actors Serve Up a Scrumptious Seasonal Confection, ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’

Clocking in at a brisk 75 minutes, the adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s prose work incorporates a steady stream of traditional and other holiday tunes, including a few written by artistic director Charlotte Moore.

Carol Rosegg
Howard McGillin and the cast of 'A Child's Christmas in Wales.' Carol Rosegg

Recent weeks have offered New York theatergoers a variety of seasonal delights, from an exuberant Broadway revival of the musical “Elf” to a new staging of “The Dead, 1904,” Irish Repertory Theater’s elegant, moving adaptation of the James Joyce story. While the latter production is still running at the American Irish Historical Society, the company is now also serving a scrumptious confection at its off-Broadway home, this one inspired by the work of a Welsh scribe.

This year marks Irish Rep’s seventh presentation of “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” adapted from Dylan Thomas’s prose work and helmed by artistic director Charlotte Moore. Clocking in at a brisk 75 minutes, the show incorporates a steady stream of traditional and other holiday tunes, including a few written by Ms. Moore herself, delivered by a company of six singing actors under David Hancock Turner’s musical direction.

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