Back in the late 1880s, when Irving Berlin was tiny Isidore Baline, the ghosts of Christmas past bore down upon him and his Jewish family.

Now that Thanksgiving is here -- you can start dreaming of a white Christmas. But if you want a guarantee of a white Christmas head for Fairbanks.

The holiday season brings to mind so many long-standing entertainment customs from watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on television to listening to Bing Crosby sing "White Christmas" on CD.

White Christmas , making a two-week stop at the Academy of Music during its national tour - four years and counting - is more holiday event than actual theater.

Bing Crosby didn't have to "dream" of a white Christmas--he could pretty much bank on it.

One of the best ways to escape the commercial excess of the holidays is to slip out of the megamall and into a theatre.

Bing Crosby didn't have to dream of a white Christmas - he could bank on it. FILE-This Dec.

Like a pair of ragged but comfortable old slippers, the return engagement of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" provides a certain cozy warmth, but the holes are showing.

Mary Seng has been designing sets for Munopco for years, but this weekend's production of ''Anything Goes,'' the Cole Porter musical about bluebloods, gangsters and mistaken identities, has been a real challenge.

During a break in their stage performance of "White Christmas" in Cincinnati, stage and screen stars Lorna Luft and Kerry O'Malley took a side trip to Augusta and Maysville.

White Christmas Anniversary Edition DVD Posted by Michael Weyer on 11.21.2009 The holiday classic comes to life in a great presentation with some nice extras to add to the great entertainment.

The holidays are approaching, which card companies will tell you is the time when memories are made.

David Elder, a native of Houston, Texas, turned a natural talent for tumbling into a career on the stage.

Monique Lund and Sara-Jeanne Hosie star in White Christmas: The Musical. Photograph by: David Cooper, Arts Club Theatre White Christmas On the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, Granville at 12th, to Jan.

The local council of the northern Italian town of Coccaglio is dreaming of a White Christmas this year.

Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" has remained a holiday classic in spite of - or perhaps because of - its melancholy undertones.

Article by Ed Perkis : 2009-11-17 13:27:01 One of the most popular holiday movies of all time, White Christmas is out on DVD in a new 'Anniversary Edition.' What anniversary is it? Why, the famous 55th anniversary, of course.

St. Petersburg, FL -- The glitz of Hollywood adds to the sparkle of downtown St.

Let Me Be Frank Productions is headed to New York City. OK, not really. But this year's "A Frank's Christmas" is set there at RCA Studios on Christmas Eve.

Other than uttering the word "Macbeth" inside of a theater, the next worst curse that could befall a theater company might be opening a production on Friday, the thirteenth.