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A scene from the 1940 film version of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, adapted by Wilder, Frank Craven, and Harry Chandlee from Wilder's play and directed for the screen by Sam Wood. The score is…
This past summer, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival produced Our Town with a company of 3 professional actors and 36 citizen actors from towns dotted around the theater's performance-space …
Augie Praley's new play, entitled Looking Back, It May Not Have Been Ridgefield High's Best Production of Our Town, will run December 4-January 15.
Our TownReviewed by Lovell Estell IIIActors' Co-op, David Schall TheatreThrough Oct. 23 It's been nearly eighty years since Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning paean to small town Ameri…
Almeida, LondonDavid Cromer's cooly observant narrator leads a radically reworked version of Thornton Wilder's classic that taps into collective folk memoryWe are used to seeing old plays gi…
Imagine the strong, proud engine of a steam train, the visible crankshafts and gears like rippling muscles driving the wheels as it pulses along the tracks. It pulls a row of polished passen…
In the 1930s, when Thornton Wilder was unhappy with the state of contemporary theater and felt that something had gone wrong, he created a metatheatrical work that would become an American c…
Co-conceiver and director Tina Landau and book writer Kyle Jarrow give a hint of what audiences can expect from the story of The SpongeBob Musical.
The Broadway-bound show is headed toward a Chicago premiere.
Molly Smith's production of Thornton Wilder's classic will stay with you.
In Part Five of a series of interviews with the cast of Rockville Little Theatre’s Our Town, meet Sandra Cox True. Please introduce yourself and tell where local theatre goers have …
In Part Four of a series of interviews with the cast of Rockville Little Theatre’s Our Town, meet Tracy Husted. Please introduce yourself and tell where local theatre goers have see…
In Part Three of a series of interviews with the cast of Rockville Little Theatre’s Our Town, meet Tristan Poje. Please introduce yourself and tell where local theatre goers have se…
Thornton Wilder's Our Town ambles into DC's suburbia–landing as is has in thousands of other large and small towns across America. One can't miss the signs in the grassy med…
"The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises," so it says in the Bible's Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter One, Verse 5. People, live, people die, life goes on.…
In part two of a series of interviews with the cast of Rockville Little Theatre’s Our Town, meet Allison Howlett. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may…
In Part One of a series of interviews with the cast of Rockville Little Theatre’s Our Town, meet Zoe Bulitt. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may h…
When I walked into the Reston Community Center at approximately 7:30 to see Reston Community Players' production of Our Town, there was an immediate sense of theatricality that was taking ef…
Reston Community Players Presents: OUR TOWN By Thornton Wilder To close their 49th season, Reston Community Players presents the classic drama, OUR TOWN, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize f…
One of the American theatrical classics, Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder, and well-directed by Amanda Hartman, comes to life in a charmingly simplistic and emotionally resonant producti…
After NPR's Bob Mondello used The Music Man to help explain the Iowa caucuses, he wished there was a musical of Our Town so he could do the same for New Hampshire. It turns out there is one.
Casey Llewellyn's play, presented by the Foundry Theater, gives audiences a Grover's Corners concerned with social changes.
Because of technology, our lives move much more quickly than in the past. We can find out information faster, travel places faster, and even have packages arrive at our home faster than we e…
Thornton Wilder, best-known as the author of "Our Town" and the inspiration for "Hello, Dolly" (which is based on his play "The Matchmaker"), used to be considered in the same breath as Mill…
By HowlRound TV. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presents a reading of Gianina Carbunariu's Mihaela, the Tiger of Our Town (Romania) livestreaming on the global, commons-…