What happens when Lookingglass ensemble members from David Schwimmer to Laura Eason get together for a reading of "Our Town," the Thornton Wilder classic and just the sort of hoary old chest…
David Cromer's acclaimed staging of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town, which stripped the portrait of small-town American life down to its communal essence, concludes its two-year …
The Actors' Gang certainly infuses its mandate to promote "daring interpretations of the classics" into its staging of one of the most iconic works of the American theater. Unfortunately, helmer Justin Zsebe's random rendering of Thornton Wilder's 1938 sojourn within a fin de secle New Hampshire village obliterates the scripter's intention to evoke the simple truths and eternal connections gleaned from the rituals of small-town daily life.
For Helen Hunt, the Stage Manager role in "Our Town" isn't about being male or female; it's about bringing authority to the part.