Holiday Arts Guide

As the season progresses, the Live Holiday Arts Guide will sink lower in our index of holiday stories. To make it easier to find these events listings, here are just the links to those calendars and stories. Events for the current week, including some that arrived after this guide, can be found on our calendar index. The latest stories and other holiday features can always be found on our Holidays page.

11/24/2005

Welcome to the Holiday Arts Guide
Nine is the magic number this year. Nine Christmas Carols, including a deadly one and a pair of musical versions. Nine Messiahs, including singalong versions and ones that include carol sings. Nine dancing Nutcrackers, including a version by kids,...

Sounds of the season are many this year
Christmas music this season comes in many packages, from pops to sacred, from contemporary to medieval.

The Mantovani Orchestra,
FRIDAY THROUGH DEC. 30

Trans-Siberian Orchestra highlights holiday pop music
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra brings its swelling Christmas rock to the Dunkin' Donuts Center for a Dec. 15 show, and a pair of holiday concerts on a single weekend at the Providence Performing Arts Center feature Clay Aiken (Dec. 9) and the Beach...

Holiday pop music
NOV. 25

Theaters get into holiday spirits with Christmas Carol
There's no shortage of Christmas Carols this season. More than a half-dozen productions are taking place somewhere in the area in the coming days.

Holiday theater
A Christmas Carol (The Musical), Academy Players, Greenwich Odeum, 59 Main St., East Greenwich. 885-6910; www.arttixri.com . Dickens' classic about miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, with original songs by Stephen DeCesare. Dec. 9-10, 15-17 at 8 pm; Dec. 11,...

Make an art of holiday shopping
Attention holiday shoppers: Tired of giving (and getting) the same old stuff? Then why not stop by some of the dozens of holiday arts and crafts sales featuring works by local artists and artisans?

Holiday art sales
NOV. 25

Season of dance begins with Nutcracker
Holiday dance generally means one thing, and plenty of it: The Nutcracker.

Holiday dance
NOV. 25-DEC. 2

Stages will be filled with holiday magic for kids
For kids who crave convention, there's a performance of The Nativity of Christ, performed by puppets.

Holiday kids' shows
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, East Main Road, Portsmouth. Newport Children's Theater production. Dec. 9 7 pm; Dec. 10-11 2, 4 pm. $10, $6 under age 12.

Holiday miscellaneous or multi-disciplinary events
NOV. 26-27

HANUKKAH
Chanukah Tales, Temple Habonim, 165 New