The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
New 4k restoration by IndieCollect!
If you do only one thing this year, evolve. Then, if you have any spare time left, come see this one-night-only screening of Lily Tomlin’s hilarious and astonishing one-woman show, adapted from Jane Wagner's play to the big screen in 1991 by director John Bailey, newly restored and more dazzlingly hilarious than ever. Lily Tomlin portrays twelve different characters—including a runaway teenage punk rocker, Eighth Avenue sex workers, a middle-aged farm wife, a regretful hedonist, feminists from the early days of the women's movement, and an unhoused former ad executive trying to explain humanity to aliens—in an incisive, compassionate, and truly side-splitting performance that earned Tomlin one of her Tonys and two Emmy nominations. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe asks: what makes us human? The answer(s) may surprise you, and they'll certainly entertain you!
"The most striking aspect of Jane Wagner and Lily Tomlin’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe...is the warmth given off by the show itself. Cruel humor is easy; it’s harder to mine laughter from the human comedy without using the handy weapon of contempt. There’s something magical about a show that can bring you to tears of laughter and sympathy at virtually the same moment."—Charles Isherwood, Variety.
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Call the Box Office at 207.873.7000 to obtain YAAF tickets. Pay it forward! Donate to YAAF here.
If you do only one thing this year, evolve. Then, if you have any spare time left, come see this one-night-only screening of Lily Tomlin’s hilarious and astonishing one-woman show, adapted from Jane Wagner's play to the big screen in 1991 by director John Bailey, newly restored and more dazzlingly hilarious than ever. Lily Tomlin portrays twelve different characters—including a runaway teenage punk rocker, Eighth Avenue sex workers, a middle-aged farm wife, a regretful hedonist, feminists from the early days of the women's movement, and an unhoused former ad executive trying to explain humanity to aliens—in an incisive, compassionate, and truly side-splitting performance that earned Tomlin one of her Tonys and two Emmy nominations. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe asks: what makes us human? The answer(s) may surprise you, and they'll certainly entertain you!
"The most striking aspect of Jane Wagner and Lily Tomlin’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe...is the warmth given off by the show itself. Cruel humor is easy; it’s harder to mine laughter from the human comedy without using the handy weapon of contempt. There’s something magical about a show that can bring you to tears of laughter and sympathy at virtually the same moment."—Charles Isherwood, Variety.
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Call the Box Office at 207.873.7000 to obtain YAAF tickets. Pay it forward! Donate to YAAF here.