Step into The Long Christmas Dinner, a sweeping journey through nine decades of the Bayard family’s holiday table. In this poignant and poetic one-act by Thornton Wilder, time bends and generations pass before our eyes, revealing what changes, and what endures. As laughter, loss, and tradition circle back again and again, we’re reminded that every family dinner tells a timeless story.

Hudson Valley Shakespeare and Philipstown Depot Theater present a staged reading of The Long Christmas Dinner, Thornton Wilder’s one-act masterpiece that compresses 90 years of a family’s history into the span of a single holiday meal. The event celebrates the publication of Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts, a landmark new collection of Wilder’s short plays.