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Live Rogue Valley theater, streaming plays: Dec. 30 By Tempo staff Updated: Dec 29, 2022 02:30 PM A A Erica Sullivan as Carol Scroogenhouse, in the burgundy dress, center, gets a lift during a scene in Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of "It’s Christmas, Carol!" See listings. OSF photo *Note: To submit your event to Tempo, email information to [email protected]. Camelot Theatre: 101 Talent Ave., Talent. Tickets and information available at camelottheatre.org or 541-535-5250. Group and discounted season packages, as well as special rate performances are available. Box Office hours are noon to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. See website or call box office for current COVID-19 requirements. ‘Matilda’: Inspired by Roald Dahl’s novel, the Tony Award-winning musical “Matilda” is a captivating masterpiece that revels in the anarchy of childhood, the power of imagination, and the inspiring story of a girl who dreams of a better life. Matilda is a little girl with astonishing wit, intelligence, and psychokinetic powers. She’s unloved by her cruel parents but impresses and is loved by her schoolteacher Miss Honey. Matilda’s school life isn’t completely smooth sailing, however — the school’s mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, hates children and loves thinking up new punishments for those who don’t abide by her rules. But Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts, and could be the school pupils’ saving grace. Packed with high-energy dance numbers, and catchy songs, “Matilda” is a joyous show for the holiday season. Directed by Oliva Carbone. Performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays, through Dec. 31. Special performances offered on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve; no performance on Christmas day. Tickets are $20-$38. ‘Spotlight on Sondheim’: Taught musical theatre by Oscar Hammerstein, Sondheim created a new breed of American musical as well as mentoring current trailblazers such as Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jason Robert Brown, and Jonathan Larson. This look into the life of one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century will please both old fans of Sondheim as well as new. This performance features songs from hits like “A Funny Thing Happened On My Way to the Forum,” “A Little Night Music,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Into the Woods,” and “Company,” to his more lesser done works like “Pacific Overtures,” “The Frogs,” and “Assassins.” Performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 19-Feb. 12. Tickets are $33-$38. Collaborative Theatre Project: 555 Medford Center, Medford. Tickets and information are available at ctpmedford.org, on Facebook, or by calling the Box Office at 541-779-1055. Group rates are available. See website or call Box Office for current COVID-19 requirements. ‘Little Women’: Collaborative Theatre Project will present Kate Hamill’s take on the beloved classic novel “Little Women,” by Louisa May Alcott, written in 1868, following the tumult of the Civil War. The story follows Marmee and her four dreamers — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — destined to be imperfect little women. Semi-autobiographical and full of the magic of family, it’s loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters. This new take on a beloved story is perfect for the whole family. Directed by Susan Aversa. Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, and 1:30 p.m. Sundays, through Jan. 1. Tickets are $35; $28 for seniors and students. Oregon Cabaret Theatre: 241 Hargadine St, on the corner of First and Hargadine streets, Ashland. Tickets and information are available at oregoncabaret.com or by calling 541-488-2902. Reservations are required for pre-show dinner and brunch. Appetizers, beverages and desserts are available without reservations. See website or call box office for current COVID-19 requirements. Student rush tickets are $15 and can be purchased 30 minutes before curtain with valid ID, subject to availability. Group discounts available. ‘A Christmas Carol ’: One of the most beloved stories ever told, “Charles Dickens’ — A Christmas Carol” is the beautiful, haunting tale of that fateful Christmas Eve when miserly curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by his old business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge is told to expect three spirits to haunt him – spirits of Christmas past, present, and future – intended to set Ebenezer on the unlikely path to redemption. Directed by Vanessa Ballam. Performances are set for 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, Mondays and select Wednesdays, and 1 p.m. Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, through Dec. 31. Were it movie, “A Christmas Carol” would be rated PG, for some adult situations and supernatural effects that could frighten younger children. Tickets are $43, $39 or $29. ‘White Christmas ’: Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil’s former Army commander, who is in desperate need of help with his struggling lodge. The dazzling score features well known Irving Berlin standards including “Blue Skies,” “I Love A Piano,” “How Deep Is the Ocean,” and the perennial favorite, “White Christmas.” Performances are set for 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, Mondays and select Wednesdays, and 1:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, through Jan. 1, in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Thomas theatre. Were it movie, “White Christmas” would be rated PG, with some mild adult situations. Tickets are $46, $42 or $32. Tickets for this show are available through the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Box Office, 15 S. Pioneer St., Ashland, online at osfashland.org or at 800-219-8161. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: 15 S. Pioneer St., Ashland. Showtimes, ticket prices and information available at osfashland.org or at 800-219-8161. See website or call box office for current COVID-19 requirements. Group discounts available. O! digital: OSF’s interactive and immersive digital content platform, O!, can be accessed for free at osfashland.org/digital. Some content will be accessed for a fee, including streaming plays. ‘The Cymbeline Project’: “Cymbeline,” a rarely performed “problem play” that explores timeless themes of power and agency through a uniquely layered narrative and language, comes to life in a 10-episode transmedia series, “The Cymbeline Project,” conceived by OSF Artistic Director Nataki Garrett and created by OSF Associate Artistic Director and Director of Innovation and Strategy, Scarlett Kim, in collaboration with iconoclastic guest artists whose practices range in form from collage to puppetry to virtual reality. “The Cymbeline Project” interweaves theatrical performance captured from performers’ homes across the country with digitally rendered visual layers, creating a hybrid form of collage—part theatre and part film—that resonates with our complex contemporary experience of media. Episodes available on-demand through Dec. 31. Tickets are $15. Live Productions: ‘It’s Christmas, Carol!’: On Christmas Eve, three ghosts take miserly businesswoman Carol Scroogenhouse through time and space to reckon with how she’s abandoned humanity for hollow capitalism. Whisked to a Shakespearean theatre, a prehistoric holiday celebration, and a Zombie future, will Carol find her soul with the help of these apparitions? The play is a zany, hilarious, song-filled twist on Dickens classic story, the holidays and Shakespeare, with a dose of the Marx Brothers, fractured carols and more. Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh. The show runs through Jan. 1, in the Angus Bowmer Theatre. Tickets are $35 to $75.