A Civil War Christmas

Taproot Theatre has closed up Bob Cratchit’s ledger book and snuffed out the lights in Scrooge and Marley’s offices to make room for a very different Christmas show. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel debuted “A Civil War Christmas” in 2008, but it is finally having a local premiere featuring a large, talented cast working in Greenwood. The play’s subtitle is “An American Musical Celebration.” A collection of American folksongs, African American Spirituals and traditional Christmas ballads weaves it way through a busy but compelling narrative occurring on a frozen Washington D.C. Christmas Eve in the late stages of our Civil War.