It's April 23, 1945 in New London, CT.  In her cozy bungalow Katharine Hartgrove,  an essayist of national renown, finds the disciplined, orderly life she normally leads crumbling into chaos.  Her son Stuart is fighting with the 5th Army in Northern Italy.  And the man in her life, Johnny Chastain, has just walked through her front door -- carrying a suitcase.

Johnny Chastain started his career as a vaudevillian gagmeister then catapulted to fame as America's favorite radio comic.  This is his first visit to Katharine's abode and he enters like a two-legged typhoon with way too many hands.   Katharine invited him up for two reasons.  The first is personal: she feels it's time to put their dizzying romance to the test.  The second has to do with business.  She's been commissioned to write a play about the American spirit as revealed through war correspondence dating back as far as the Revolutionary War.  Having never written anything to be performed before, she plans to take advantage of Johnny's considerable showbiz acumen to help her get through the project.  This could be her salvation, or the worst mistake she has ever made.

Johnny's irreverent and often madcap antics make Katharine laugh, not only at him, but at herself, despite stressing over Stuart being in harm's way, and the daunting task of writing the play.  It's welcome relief at first, but the tone turns cynical, even mocking, leading to a contest of wills and wit.    

What follows has been described by audiences around the world as an "emotional rollercoaster."   Perhaps Michelle Pinkard describes it best in her review in the Shreveport Times, "How could I come close to describing the experience?   If every possible war-related state -- love, hatred, failure, success, life and death -- were tossed into a blender, surely the result would be this Broadway-style production.  By interweaving actual letters written from both the war and home fronts (in conflicts dating as far back as the Revolutionary War), the creators invite the audience to take a tear-jerking, hand-clapping, mind-blowing, two-hour stroll through history."

In the end, LETTERS FROM THE FRONT is a celebration of America with all its beauty and tragedy, echoed in the thoughts and feelings of those who carried the torch of freedom from the village green at Lexington to the sands of Iwo Jima.   The surprise ending is a howlingly funny tribute to the human spirit's ability to claim victory over life's darkest moments.  And when the laughter and tears subside, Johnny is the most unlikely of heroes and Katharine is healed from emotional scars that have haunted her for 20 years.         

LETTERS FROM THE FRONT is a three act, two hour "dramedy," a richly textured tapestry of comedy and pathos, of music and dance, of actual war correspondence from every major American conflict--from Valley Forge to Baghdad.  The result is a poignant, funny, moving, and very memorable evening of theatre.