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It's a special holiday treat! ACT Theatre has been putting up their production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for 44 years. A classic Seattle theater-going experience, each year the cast and team find something new, something unique, and something contemporary to blend in to the holiday classic. This week, we're thrilled to have director Kelly Kitchens, and the two alternating Scrooges, Peter Crook, and David Pichette joining us to talk about what they're reading. Thanks to them for taking time out of their busy schedule to participate — and you have time to see the play, yet! It'll be on stage through Sunday, December 28th — more information here. If you haven't experienced it yet, you're in for a treat. Don't miss it.

Kelly Kitchens is the director of A Christmas Carol. She's a professional director, actor, adaptor, and teaching artist based in Seattle.

What are you reading now?

Milkman, by Anna Burns

What did you read last?

A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara

What are you reading next?

The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai

Peter Crook plays Scrooge. A Juilliard trained actor, who spent time in New York and Los Angeles doing film and television, he moved to Seattle in 1989, and has been in countless productions since, including a few turns as the old humbug.

What are you reading now?

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 , by Frank Harris

What did you read last?

Worm at the Core, by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg & Tom Pyszczynski

What are you reading next?

Quichotte, by Salman Rushdi

David Pichette also plays Scrooge. A veteren Seattle actor, he's been working in this town over thirty-five years, Pichette's production list is impressive and daunting.

What are you reading now?

Reign Of Elizabeth I by James Anthony Froude, Chateaubriand's Memoirs, and re-reading the Earl of Clarendon's History Of The Great Rebellion.

What did you read last?

The New Negro: The Life Of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey Stewart, and Soul, by Andrey Platonov.

What are you reading next?

Defender Of Peace, by Marsilius of Padua.