Thornton Wilder News

The Artistic Home's 2009/2010 season continues with the Pulitzer prize winning comedy The Skin Of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder.

This year, we had the pleasure of making the following conversations and performances available to our viewers

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed repertory theatre company, reprises for the third consecutive year its critically applauded production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, offering 10 performances from Saturday, January 16 through Sunday, January 24, 2010.

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) has announced that Kate Blumberg, Victoria Clark, Mary Beth Hurt, Rod McLachlan, Susan Pourfar, Will Rogers, Michael Siberry, Richard Topol and Henry Vick will be featured in the cast of its upcoming production of WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING, a new play by Andrew Bovell, directed by David Cromer, which begins previews Thursday, February 11 at 8pm at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street). Opening night for this American premiere of WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING, which is being produced by arrangement with Jean Doumanian and Freddy DeMann, is Monday, March 8 at 6:45pm.

Frances McDormand, Maura Tierney, and more will be joining the cast of Los Angeles based Redcat's production of NORTH ATLANTIC. Written by James Strah, the production will run February 10th through 21st and is directed by Elizabeth LeCompte. The cast will include McDormand, Ari Fliakos, Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk, Steve Cuiffo, Koosil-ja Hwang, Paul Lazar, Zachary Oberzan, Jenny Seastone-Stern and Tierney.

The Broadway Boys, a collection of the hottest male voices currently working on the New York stage, will present a concert of Broadway and holiday favorites, on Sunday, December 20, 3 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse.

Singer-songwriter RONDI CHARLESTON is thrilled to announce her upcoming show 'Rondi Charleston & Friends Holiday Concert,' set to play The Westport Country Playhouse (25 Powers Court, Westport, CT) Saturday, December 19 at 8:00PM.

The Klezmatics, globally renowned world music superstars, will offer holiday and non-holiday music steeped in Jewish tradition at Westport Country Playhouse, on Thursday, December 17, 8 p.m.

Rosemary Prinz, a veteran of Broadway and the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns, leads the cast in The Cleveland Play House production of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, Lost in Yonkers is a touching and hilarious coming of age story and a very eccentric family.

The critically acclaimed David Cromer production of' Thornton Wilder's Our Town now on stage at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street), will make theater history when performance #337 makes this staging the longest-running Our Town in the 71-year worldwide history of the classic play.

The movies return to Westport---when Westport Country Playhouse presents a weekend of three classic holiday films, Friday through Sunday, December 11 - 13, featuring 'A Christmas Story,' Sing-a-long 'White Christmas,' and 'Miracle on 34th Street.'

After a successful run this past winter with the Keen Company at the Clurman Theater / Theater Row, Jonathan Hogan and Ron Holgate will reprise their roles in Heroes, by Gerald Sibleyras with a translation by Tom Stoppard and directed by Carl Forsman with the Merrimack Repertory Theatre Company. They will be joined by Ken Tigar, who will be playing the role previously performed by Broadway vet John Cullum in the Theater Row premiere. The production at the Merrick Theatre will run from November 19 through December 13.

The movies return to Westport---when Westport Country Playhouse presents a weekend of three classic holiday films, Friday through Sunday, December 11 - 13, featuring 'A Christmas Story,' Sing-a-long 'White Christmas,' and 'Miracle on 34th Street.'

The movies return to Westport---when Westport Country Playhouse presents a weekend of three classic holiday films, Friday through Sunday, December 11 - 13, featuring 'A Christmas Story,' Sing-a-long 'White Christmas,' and 'Miracle on 34th Street.'

'This Wonderful Life,' a one-man, live version of Frank Capra's classic Christmas film, will be staged on Thursday, December 10, 8 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse, as part of the Playhouse's holiday series of theater, music, dance and film events.

The Broadway Boys, a collection of the hottest male voices currently working on the New York stage, will present a concert of Broadway and holiday favorites, on Sunday, December 20, 3 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse.

Transport Group, the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and a 2007 Obie Award, honored playwright Terrence McNally and director Joe Mantello on Monday, December 7 at Asia Society and Museum during it's 2009 Gimme A Break! benefit. BroadwayWorld was on hand to capture the ceremony.

Singer-songwriter RONDI CHARLESTON is thrilled to announce her upcoming show 'Rondi Charleston & Friends Holiday Concert,' set to play The Westport Country Playhouse (25 Powers Court, Westport, CT) Saturday, December 19 at 8:00PM.

Transport Group, the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and a 2007 Obie Award, has announced that its 2009 Gimme A Break! benefit will honor playwright Terrence McNally and director Joe Mantello on Monday, December 7 at 6:30pm, at Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street.

The Skin of Our Teeth runs through December 5, 2009 at The Vortex, 2307 Manor Road Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m. NO PERFORMANCE ON THANKSGIVING, NOVEMBER 26 Added performance Wednesday, December 2 Pick your Price: $15, $20, $25, $30