Tom Hanks

Based on his 2017 fiction work "Uncommon Type: Some Stories," a new play co-written by Hanks will have its world premiere at Shadowland Stages.

"Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered," came out in May. "When you have a face like mine, you better figure out something else to do," he said. "All that stuff is in the future, and you can kill yourself future tripping. We started to adjust to new works a few years back, as part of the National New Play network." "But as far as new audience members, coming for the first time, we have seen that, even with people walking by and saying, 'Hey I just discovered you'." "They worked on an idea of how to unify the three pieces and came up with time travel to tie them all together." "First of all, when the guys come in the morning to work on my house, I am there to greet them," he said. To be back at the basic campfire- let's-tell-a-story is wonderful." "Shadowland Stages is the ideal venue for 'Safe Home,' a safe home for a new play," he commented in a release provided by the theater. To be in a small house, with a couple of hundred seats is more fun and more important than anything else I could be doing." From there, it continued forward with a live, in-person reading of all three short stories in 2021, again with Strathairn, Washington, and the addition of Evie Colbert and Jeffrey Demunn. "The style of his (Glossman's) adaptions are unique," Burke explained.