Casting has been announced for the 2016 Shaw Festival. The season, which is the last for artistic director Jackie Maxwell, will include Alice in Wonderland, A Woman of No Importance, Sweeney…
The Bergen County Academies Theatre Department will stage 'Our Town,' written by Thornton Wilder at the school auditorium, located at 200 Hackensack Ave. in Hackensack.
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If Thornton Wilder were still kicking up his heels on our hot little third rock from the sun, I'm thinking he'd appreciate the purity of the Blank Canvas Theatre production of "Our Town…
The opening scene of George Schaefer's TV adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, starring Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager. It was originally telecast by NBC on May 30, 1977: (This is th…
Thornton Wilder's experiments were gentler than those of the French wild man Alfred Jarry, whose manic and profane "Ubu Roi" scandalized Paris and prefigured Dada in 1896. Both men are being…
Thornton Wilder's experiments were gentler than those of the French wild man Alfred Jarry, whose manic and profane "Ubu Roi" scandalized Paris and prefigured Dada in 1896. Both men are being…
The endearingly minimalist Our Town by Thornton Wilder gets a Commedia dell'Arte treatment from Faction of Fools. Does a Commedia troupe have anything special to bring to the Pulitzer Prize …
Updated 6/1/5: Before seeing Faction of Fools’ Commedia dell'arte interpretation of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in full production (I’d previously seen it in a worksho…
Faction of Fools does it again with an innovative production of Thornton Wilder's revolutionary and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town, which originally debuted in 1938 about a New Hampshi…
It looks more and more likely that "Enchanted April," which received its premiere three years ago at Hartford Stage, will make it to Broadway. Molly Ringwald and Elizabeth Ashley have already been mentioned to star but now add Jayne Atkinson to the quartet of women who seek to warm their soul at an Italian retreat.
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Joseph Stein is working on a revised script to the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical "Over and Over." The title is now "The Skin of Our Teeth," which makes sense because it's the title of the Thornton Wilder work on which it is based.
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Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!
