First Flight Theatre Company presents a staged reading of Maxwell Anderson’s comedy Saturday's Children as a benefit for the theatre company. Anderson's comedy had its Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre in New York City on January 26, 1927 and had a healthy run of 310 performances. It featured actors Ruth Gordon, Beulah Bondi and Humphrey Bogart. With beautifully written dialogue and complex characters, Saturday’s Children, set in 1927 Manhattan, explores themes of love, ambition and societal pressure not unlike what a young couple would encounter today in 2023.
First Flight Theatre Company is a not-for-profit founded by Frank Farrell in 2018, is based in Ridgewood, NJ and is devoted to presenting the plays of 20th century American playwright Maxwell Anderson as well as other playwrights who instill poetry in their writing.
