Laura Dern, Common & More Join IF ALL THE SKY WERE PAPER Lineup at Kirk Douglas Theatre

Lexikat Artists, in association with Chapman University, will present the return of IF ALL THE SKY WERE PAPER on Saturday, March 14 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 15 at 2:30 pm at The Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd. in Culver City. The play is a moving, dramatic reading of real wartime letters by soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen, as well as their family members at home.

In addition to the already announced Four-time Academy Award-nominee Annette Bening, Gary Cole and Lauren Bowles has announced additional performers including: Common, Laura Dern, Jason Hall , Monique Edwards; Brad Hall; Michael Conner Humphreys, who later joined the Army and was deployed to Iraq; John Marshall Jones ; Kate Mansi; Sandra Seacat; and Christopher Sweeney, who served in the Marines during the Gulf War and earned the Silver Star Medal, the third-highest military decoration for valor. Newcomer Garrett Schweighauser will star as the Narrator. (Please note that Annette Bening is only scheduled for the Sunday March 15th matinee performance - and Common will only be performing Saturday, March 14th.)

IF ALL THE SKY WERE PAPER was written by award-winning Author Andrew Carroll, is directed by John Benitz, and is based upon Carroll's bestselling books WAR LETTERS and BEHIND THE LINES. In 1998, Carroll launched a national initiative to honor U.S. troops, veterans, and their families by preserving their wartime letters. Since that time Carroll has traveled to 40 countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan, and has collected more than 100,000 previously unpublished letters (and now emails) from every conflict in American history.

IF ALL THE SKY WERE PAPER has been awarded a prestigious grant from The National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from Cal Humanities to help reach audiences around the country through a series of readings and performances.