Michael McKean, of Broadway's >Superior Donuts and Hairspray, returns to the acclaimed Off-Broadway run of Our Town on Aug. 3. After an earlier summer engagement in the Greenwich Village staging, McKean again plays the classic's narrator and guide, the Stage Manager, now to Aug. 22.
Audiences tend to think that "Our Town" is dated and boring. Luckily, a damn good production in town has arrived to remind us of the play's original brilliance.
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…
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.
