A Wilder Christmas

See it if u want to see an expert prod. of TW's 'mundane to the cosmic' style of playwriting. It's thrilling, extraordinary and suddenly emotional.YES

Don't see it if Wilder looks sentimentality, bathos and the mawkish right in the eye, sand in my shoos cross the line. Makes your blood boil? Skip it.

See it if Classic American plays

Don't see it if Dislike the above

See it if You'll enjoy Wilder's cosmic/classical narratives where the profound is expressed through the mundane. Brilliant theater earnestly delivered

Don't see it if Grand, sawing the air, performances will keep you from absorbing the early work of one of America's greatest dramatists.

See it if You like shows that take place around Christmas & were written by Thornton Wilder (Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth).

Don't see it if You don't want to see two short plays in a night instead of one longer play. You don't enjoy quieter shows & prefer a lot of action.

See it if you are a fan of Wilder and his style of writing - these are not among his best pieces and there's a reason these are rarely performed

Don't see it if you expect beautiful story telling and uplifting holiday stories; you don't like audience participation (I hate that in the theater)

See it if You enjoy Wilder and one acts

Don't see it if You are expecting a typical 2 act play, rather it is two one acts in extremely different time periods

See it if You want to see Wilder experimenting with early modernist techniques to explore the theme of the importance of common, everyday events.

Don't see it if You don't like 1) non-realistic situations & confusing story lines, or 2) a director's addition of audience participation (I didn't like)

See it if Like Christmas

Don't see it if Don't like Christmas

See it if You love theater and chrias

Don't see it if If you are the grinch

See it if The work was as good a revival of the early Wilder as any I've seen. It's worth a trip.

Don't see it if you have no interest in these early plays.