{"id":26431,"date":"2019-12-05T20:07:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26431"},"modified":"2019-12-05T20:07:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:07:33","slug":"dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving California Christmas to Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dickfair.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CA&#8211;For four or five weekends leading up to Christmas each year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/san-francisco-dickens-fair.html\">The Great Dickens Christmas Fair<\/a> invites the public to enter a storybook world based on famous literary works of English author Charles Dickens. While &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221; plays abound during the holiday season, this festival is an immersive experience akin to a living theater where guests can interact with characters playing roles. Your family can also don Victorian costumes and step into the shoes of 19th century Christmas celebrants.<\/p>\n<p>For Dickens fans unable to make it to San Francisco the International Printing Museum in Carson has a one day festival of fun, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/carson-dickens-day.html\">Dickens Holiday Celebration<\/a>, held in a museum filled with vintage printing presses.<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/nutcracker-ballet\/california-nutcracker-ballet.html\">The Nutcracker<\/a> ballet, A Christmas Carol play is a must for performing arts enthusiasts seeking holiday traditions!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/christmas-carol.html\">California Christmas Carols<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BEVERLY HILLS: Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts<\/li>\n<li>BUENA PARK: Knott&#8217;s Merry Farm Birdcage Theatre<\/li>\n<li>CARPINTERIA: Alcazar Theatre<\/li>\n<li>COSTA MESA: South Coast Repertory<\/li>\n<li>GLENDALE: Glendale Centre Theatre<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH: A.C.T.S. Drama Group<\/li>\n<li>JULIAN: Julian Theater Company<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Long Beach Playhouse<\/li>\n<li>PASADENA: \u00a0A Noise Within<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Sacramento Theatre Company<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: The Old Globe (Ebenezer Scrooge&#8217;s BIG San Diego Christmas Show)<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Old Town Cygnet Theatre<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: American Conservatory Theater<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE:\u00a0Northside Theatre Company<\/li>\n<li>TEMECULA: Old Town Community Theater<\/li>\n<li>THOUSAND OAKS: Thousand Oaks Repertory<\/li>\n<li>WALNUT CREEK: Lesher Center for the Arts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CA&#8211;For four or five weekends leading up to Christmas each year The Great Dickens Christmas Fair invites the public to enter a storybook world based on famous literary works of English author Charles Dickens. While &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221; plays abound during the holiday season, this festival is an immersive experience akin to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26432,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26431\/revisions\/26432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}