The La Jolla Playhouse (California) production ran from September 30 through October 26, 2008.

Nor is it a revival of a "Playhouse 90" production, those 1950's live telecasts of plays like "Requiem for a Heavyweight."

"Signs of Life," an American Playhouse production, would like to associate itself with Thornton Wilder's "Our Town."

The film was one of the American Playhouse productions shown on public television stations.

The massacre was dramatized in the 1958 Playhouse 90 production Seven Against the Wall.

Later he appeared in a minor role in the Playhouse 90 production of The 80 Yard Run (1958) starring Paul Newman.

As an adult, he was nominated for a best supporting actor Emmy in 1956 for a role in "The Comedian," a Playhouse 90 production.

The decision is in part a response to a decline in Public Broadcasting Service funds for American Playhouse productions.

It is also the first studio-backed feature of the director, Jan Egleson, a veteran of several independent films and American Playhouse productions.

(They met while doing the "American Playhouse" production of "Lemon Sky" in 1987.)