It's kind of a tossup these days whether Matthew R. Wilson is more newsworthy because he's leaving as artistic director of Faction of Fools, the Commedia dell'arte company he founded, to tea…
Written in 1938, Our Town remains one of the most enduring works of American drama. Here, Tappan Wilder, nephew of Thornton, discusses the play’s legacy, and its lasting sign…
Travis Ramirez has played it serious, as the haunted church organist Simon Stimson in “Our Town.” He played it madcap backstage in “Fiddler on the Roof,” playing all …
The MacArthur "genius" grantee talks about his new play 'Pocatello' at Playwrights Horizons, and why the Olive Garden makes a great metaphor for family and community.
Almeida, LondonThornton Wilders 1938 portrayal of small-town life could hardly be bettered even if it keeps its subjects at arms length Continue reading...
A STUNNING SIMPLICITY, A HUMAN HEART Only the dead see life clearly. Â In the last strange simple minutes of this undramatic drama, half of Thornton Wilder’s citizens b…
Almeida Theatre, London: The award-winning American actor-director David Cromer brings his 2009 Off-Broadway hit revival of this classic play about small-town life to north London. In the pr…
After Little Revolution interrogated ideas of community and how it divides us, Thornton Wilder's Our Town moves into the Almeida after its successful run in New York, and examines the everyd…
Almeida, LondonDavid Cromers cooly observant narrator leads a radically reworked version of Thornton Wilders classic that taps into collective folk memory Continue reading...
A template of the American theatre gets dusted off to quietly devastating effect in Our Town, the 1938 Thornton Wilder play that has never been especially beloved in Britain even as it gets …
For such a seemingly simple play, Our Town requires the audience to generously invest their attention and imagination. Thornton Wilder's classic set in a small town in New Hampshire only wor…
This Wednesday, October 8, previews for the first show of the Long Wharf Theatre's 50th anniversary season begin. And that first show is an American classic: Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Not …
For the season opener of Long Wharf Theater's 50th anniversary season, artistic director Gordon Edelstein wanted a work that not only made an artistic statement about the theater but one tha…
