Moving Holiday docu-musical, All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 will come back to Boise Contemporary Theater [BCT] for a third time in cooperation with Opera Idaho and poses the question, “Could ...

British and German soldiers in World War I during the Christmas Truce of 1914. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. It’s late 1914. December cold in the trenches of the Western Front of World ...

If it weren’t taught in history class, the impromptu ceasefire during which 100,000 British and German troops laid down their weapons and left their trenches to celebrate Christmas together would ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2019. The story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 is often considered “played out,” especially in historical circles, but it is a compelling tale; ...

Arts at the J will present Opera Orlando’s ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 at the Pargh Event Center on Thursday, December 18, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. The performance, part of the venue’s Arts at ...

Playhouse on Park has taken another shot at a heartwarming if disarming Christmas-themed musical war drama. The theater first presented “All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914” in 2020 as a ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...