Category: 2025 Season

Beginning this week, you can experience a different kind of live theatre unfold before your eyes at Third Avenue PlayWorks while also celebrating the holidays. “A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play” opened on Wednesday at the Sturgeon Bay theater, retelling the familiar story of Ebenezer Scrooge and his emotional transformation following the visits of the Christmas Ghosts of Past, Present, and Future. While the WBFR Radio Players will still look and play the parts of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, and others on stage, they will also double as the production’s sound effects department. It is a throwback to an art form that dates back to the 1880s in France and hit its peak popularity in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. TAP Artistic Director Jacob Janssen says watching the actors play all of the different parts—from characters to sound effects—is a special treat for audiences.

The WBFR Radio Players are back on the Third Avenue PlayWorks stage for the holiday season, but this year they are taking on a different story from the Christmas canon. Rehearsals are underway, and tickets are on sale for TAP’s production of “A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play.” Featuring performances by Cassandra Bissell, Neil Brookshire, Ray Jivoff, Dan Klarer, and Rána Roman, the production delivers a 1940s-era radio experience of the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his encounters with the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. Artistic Director Jacob Janssen says audiences will get to enjoy both the “theater of the mind” and live theater on Sturgeon Bay’s 3rd Avenue.