The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing and reading Showing now

A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic, London SE1 (0844-871 7628). Rhys Ifans is Scrooge in Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Dickens’s classic Christmas tale. For age 11+. Ends 20 January.

Imagining the Divine at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (01865-278000) and Living with gods at the British Museum, London WC1 (020-7323 8181). Two engrossing exhibitions looking at belief. The Ashmolean’s features art inspired by five religions. Ends 18 February. The British Museum show traces the history of belief through artefacts. “Bold and joyous” (Sunday Times). Ends 8 April.

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Richard Eyre’s “electrifying” production of Eugene O’ Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, starring Jeremy Irons and Leslie Manville, is transferring to the West End (MOS). 27 January-8 April, Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 (0844-482 5120).

Tickets are on sale for Martin Mcdonagh’s new play, A Very Very Very Dark Matter, at London’s newest theatre. Jim Broadbent stars as Hans Christian Andersen in this blackly comic tale. 10 October-29 December 2018, Bridge Theatre, London SE1 (0843-208 1846).

Just out in paperback

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova (Granta £14.99). Having fled Bulgaria after the fall of communism, Kassabova returns to the region and produces an “elusive but beautifully written book” (Sunday Times).