New York City’s oldest intact family home—a red-brick townhouse at 28 East Fourth Street—was built in 1832. Charles Dickens’s novella A Christmas Carol was published in 1843. That townhouse is now the Merchant’s House Museum, a charming time-travel into a 19th-century interior. That novella is now an indispensable holiday classic that also travels through time. Put them together and you have a production of A Christmas Carol like no other. Using Dickens’s original performance text, and in the setting of Merchant’s House, the actor John Kevin Jones takes on the author’s persona and tells the story of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. Along the way, Jones brings all the characters to life. This season, the actor and playwright Vince Gatton will alternate in the role with Jones. —Laura Jacobs