George Bailey, Clarence, and the Bedford Falls community will come to life this Christmas season in December, in a fresh, inventive reimagining of the beloved holiday story. It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play will perform fifteen shows at Theatre At The Center in Munster, December 9th through December 20th.

Provision Theater Artistic Director Timothy Gregory will direct this ensemble of local actors featuring all the well known, and some not so well known, characters of the iconic town of Bedford Falls. The performers will also help in the creation of a full range of live, playful sound effects and music that will lift up the show.

Hailed as “magical” by The Boston Globe and “ fresh and inventive” by the Chicago Sun-Times, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play transposes the cinematic classic to the theater by staging the story as if it was a live radio broadcast in front of a studio audience. Five actors perform the voices of dozens of characters while creating foley sound effects. As in the movie, everyman George Bailey must learn that “no man is a failure who has friends” (and a little divine intervention), when he must face off against local robber baron (and all around curmudgeon) Henry F. Potter. It’s a surefire reminder of what the holiday Christmas season is all about.