A homegrown literary hero, Thornton Wilder graduated from our own Berkeley High School in 1915 and hit the ground running. Years after his "Our Town" and "The Skin of Our Teeth" both won Pulitzer Prizes he reworked an older play of his into the rambunctious farce "The Matchmaker," opening it on Broadway in 1955. We missed our chance to present it then—by two years and tens of thousands of dollars—but with the fates fully aligned now, we are proud to show at last Mr. Wilder's winning creation to our loyal Berkeley audience.

It's a farce with a lot of heart—along with slamming doors, mistaken identities, and hiding in closets and under tables—as the irrepressible Dolly Levi schemes to match the penny-pinching Horace Vandergelder with... herself. Vandergelder's young niece also hopes to marry a poor artist, it's a union only Ms. Levi can make happen—or can she?

Opens Friday, July 18th. Performances Fridays and Saturdays July 18th through August 16th at 8 pm, plus an extra showing Thursday, August 14th at 8 pm. Buy your tickets here!