Christmas From Home brings theatergoers into a sound stage where they become the studio audience for a Christmas broadcast shared with U.S. Troops stationed around the world. Those irresistible Big Band hits - at times bombastic, at times sentimental - weave around comic and poignant vignettes from the battlefield and the home front, stories based on interviews with the people who lived them.

The contraptions on the sound effects cart add another layer of intrigue, along with authentic advertisements from the era: the health benefits of cigarettes, how Listerine fights dandruff, and your child’s favorite drink, Ovaltine.

Each play centers on one of the war years. Specific events bring the unique levels of adrenaline, anxiety and hope into crisp focus. Throughout the series we follow the lives of our favorite characters, Wilber and Suze, Jack and Evelyn, and Air Raid Warden Clyde Hoffstettler.

The Tapestry Theatre Company first brought the Christmas From Home series to the stage in 1999 in Portland, OR. Throughout the next decade the play attracted audiences of between 2,000 and 3,000 people each year. Many families made the show part of their Christmas tradition.