KACU. Abilene’s National Public Radio station, will present a live radio play at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, at the Paramount Theater.

The play, “A Texas Christmas Carol,” is an adaptation by the late Barry Smoot, who for many years was the artistic director at the Paramount. Click here for tickets.

“Based on Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella, ‘A Texas Christmas Carol’ moves us from Victorian England to the Depression in Texas, specifically Dickens, Texas, 1933. Interspersed with classic Christmas carols and hymns, ‘A Texas Christmas Carol’ is a simple story of Eb Scrooge’s plan of fencing off the town’s water supply, leading to visits from ghosts of his past, present and future, to give us a tale of sin, revelation and redemption.”