Isaac Klein to Direct New Work About Thornton Wilder's Our Town

Augie Praley’s new play, entitled ”Looking Back, It May Not Have Been Ridgefield High’s Best Production of Our Town”, will run December 4-January 15.

Augie Praley's new play Looking Back, It May Not Have Been Ridgefield High's Best Production of Our Town will debut December 4.
Augie Praley's new play Looking Back, It May Not Have Been Ridgefield High's Best Production of Our Town will debut December 4.
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The Peoples Improv Theater will offer the world premiere of Augie Praley's Looking Back, It May Not Have Been Ridgefield High's Best Production of Our Town, December 4, 2016-January 15, 2017.

The new play is described as such: "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."

Isaac Klein directs the new work, which is produced by Maggie D'Ambrose. Production design is by Joel Soren, with costume consulting by Jacob A. Climer.

Praley will lead the cast, which also features Jeremy Beazlie, Jessie Cannizzaro, Chance Carroll, Whitney Conkling, Sam Corbin, James Fouhey, Emmy Harrington, Maya Jackson, Rachel Lin, Preston Martin, Linda Lee McBride, Thomas Constantine Moore, Alesandra Nahodil, Erik Olson, Karsten Otto, Jenna Rush, Demetrios Saites, Peter Sansbury, and Trevor Vaughn.

Looking Back, It May Not Have Been Ridgefield High's Best Production of Our Town performs Sundays at 8:30pm at the Peoples Improv Theater's Striker Theater.

For more information and tickets, click here.