LOOKING BACK, IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN RIDGEFIELD HIGH'S BEST PRODUCTION OF OUR TOWN to Premiere at The PIT

This winter at The Peoples Improv Theater (The PIT), get ready for the world premiere of Looking Back, It May Not Have Been Ridgefield High's Best Production of Our Town, by Augie Praley, running December 4th to January 15th.

A playwright invites us along as he returns to his high school gymnatorium on the night before it's to be torn down, to examine and reimagine the lives that were touched in some way by the building--especially those involved in the school's many past productions of OUR TOWN. Equal parts earnest love letter and meta dissection of Thornton Wilder's masterpiece, Looking Back, It May Not Have Been Ridgefield High's Best Production of Our Town takes the awkward and the cringe-worthy, the hilarious and the tragic, the ordinary and the extraordinary, and explores what it means to be human today.

This new play will be directed by Isaac Klein, and produced by Maggie D'Ambrose. It stars a cast of eighteen, led by Augie Praley as The Playwright. Production Design by Joel Soren.

Looking Back, It May Not Have Been Ridgefield High's Best Production of Our Town begins performances on December 4th, and performs Sunday nights at 8:30pm through January 15th at the PIT's Striker Theater, 123 E 24th Street.

Tickets are $18, and can be purchased at thepit-nyc.com/lookingback. Box Office opens daily at 5pm. The running time is 2 hours, including two brief intermissions. There is not a Standing Room or Rush ticket policy for this production. For more information, email LookingBackOurTown@gmail.com.

Augie Praley (Playwright) is a Manhattan based writer, director and actor. Praley's work in theatre has been seen across the world in cities including Chicago, Washington, DC, New York and Tbilisi, Georgia. His play Thanksgiving at Chekov's was a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and his screenplay i am become the sea was a quarter-finalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship. In 2014, The New York Times called Augie, Alone "a series of delightful solo vignettes that announce a strong new comic voice." He is also creator and director of the Super Deluxe web series Future You. Praley studied Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago and received an MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU'S Tisch School of the Arts. Augie is currently developing projects for television and works at Comedy Central.

Isaac Klein (Director) is a director and writer of plays and musicals. His work has been seen at the PIT, the O'Neill, the Flea, the York, the Lark, the Box, BAM, Fresh Ground Pepper, Loft227, Crashbox, Pipeline, FringeNYC, LPAC, Abrons Arts Center, Theater Row, Judson Church, Guild Hall, Capital Fringe, Woolly Mammoth, Barn Arts Collective, and the Museum of Natural History, among others. Assistant/Associate credits include work for Peter Shaffer, the Public, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, LaMama, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the most recent Broadway revivals of Gypsy and West Side Story. Isaac is a founding member of SPACE on Ryder Farm, and a company member at Exit, Pursued By A Bear. His first book, The School of Doing: Lessons from theater master Gerald Freedman, will be available in 2017.

Poster Design: David Litman

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