The Long Christmas Dinner Festival: Thornton Wilder

About this event

Park Literacy Project and Park Books of Maryland, together with The Wilder Estate, are launching a new holiday tradition, The Long Christmas Dinner Festival, and everyone is invited. The festival stretches from Alaska to Florida and from California to Maine, with many places in between. More than 30 theaters, schools, and bookstores in 20 states will share Thornton Wilder’s holiday masterpiece, the one-act play The Long Christmas Dinner, with their communities. In just 40 minutes of stage time, the play 90 years of a family’s history flying by. This innovative, moving, funny, and profound drama helps us see time, tradition, and our own families more clearly. Park Books of Maryland joins a lineup that includes some of the country’s most acclaimed theaters, all with a recent history of staging Wilder’s plays: The Public Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Seattle Rep, Miami New Drama, Pasadena Playhouse, and Rude Mechs. High schools, independent bookstores, and colleges are taking part t

Books

• The Long Christmas DinnerBuy on Bookshop.org
• Our Town and the Cosmic One-ActsBuy on Bookshop.org

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Venue

Park Books

555 Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard, MD

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