Multicultural Stages in a Small Oregon Town By KATE TAYLOR
Bill Rauch, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, adapts the classics for modern society.
Bill Rauch, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, adapts the classics for modern society.
Less is more.
Thornton Wilder knew this when he wrote "Our Town" in 1938. Jack Hofsiss, director of the Bay Street Theatre production that opened Saturday night, only occasionally forgets it. And Pat Hingle has known it his entire career.
If ever there was a foolproof American play, it is Thornton Wilder's "Our Town." I have seen professional and amateur productions, college and high-school performances, movie and opera versi…
Wilder's play about life's values reaches beyond Broadway
The avoidance of sentimentality is admirable, but the almost complete lack of emotion in this performance style is so extreme it amounts to anti-sentiment.
Popular play gets new performances
This limp production was performed with the kind of desperation that comes from not knowing the point of what you're saying.
In director David Cromer's hands, the cozy hamlet of Grover's Corners has become a frosty little town.
NEW YORK (Variety) - The Broadway revival of "Our Town," starring Paul Newman, racked up $1.5 million in its first five days of ticket sales.
Annie Baker will have three of her "Shirley, Vt." plays performed in a festival of her work.
Uncomfortably spanning several eras, this threadbare revival ends up fit for none
Who'd have thunk it: Seuss classic is neatly repackaged for Broadway