Every December, theatergoers return to Christmas stories the way we return to old family rituals not because they surprise us, but because they remind us who we’ve been and ask who we’re becoming.

Her signature song, first released in 1963, is as set in the pantheon as such predecessors as Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” and such successors as Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” ...

Watching Broadway’s Sara Sheperd perform her holiday themed cabaret, Please Come Home for Christmas, is akin to sitting in front of a cozy fire with a mug of hot cocoa. Sheperd, and her piano playing ...