Comedian and Broadway vet Jackie Hoffman—most recently she played Grandmama in The Addams Family—reprises her one-woman semiautobiographical take on Dickens’s classic Christmas novel. Hoffman plays every role in the hit show, delivering kvetchy comedic monologues and riffing on Jewish identity. TONY Theater associate editor Adam Feldman describes it as “one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in a theater.” Take your parents when they insist on visiting, and finally solve the mystery of exactly how many things rhyme with oy vey. jackiehoffman.com. $39.50–$59.50.
This year, Hanukkah 2012 doesn’t overlap with that other well-known December holiday, Christmas: It takes place from sundown on December 8 until sundown on December 16, giving you eight days full of music, latkes, dreidels, booze, burlesque and some stale gelt (chocolate coins) left over from last year. Here’s where to celebrate.
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