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 sound like fake news. Those two days more than 100 years ago seem unimaginable in 2025.

The “docu-musical” All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 , enjoying a remarkably understated production at Stage West Theatre in Fort Worth, makes the spontaneous event palpable, even if it never spread to all of World War I’s Western Front or in the same way. All Is Calm depicts it in just one corner of the bloody conflict.

Unfolding in just 70 minutes, theater director Peter Rothstein’s poetic construction began as a radio play on Minnesota Public Radio in December 2007 before premiering on stage lat

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