Palm Beach Dramaworks's 2014-2015 season will continue its tradition of presenting classic American and British dramas and musicals, a few familiar, some rarely if ever done by professional …
Les Waters' production of this minimalist classic breathes timeless & universal vitality into Thorton Wilder's "Our Town."
Les Waters' production features the play's small joys like the intangible warmth that love exudes most notably in the honesty that REBEBAH BROCKMAN brings to her role as "Emily."
Thornton Wilder's Our Town, produced by Carroll Community College, directed by John Moletress, reviewed by Hannah Eyler for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 2 Inst…
The past few years have seen a wealth of new theatre companies in the Washington area, bringing brand-new approaches"new to us, at least. It's especially heartening to see the growth of …
Faction of Fools brings their devilish sense of humor to a new Commedia dell'Arte workshop staging of an American classic: Thorton Wilder's Our Town. Wilder’s work was wildly inv…
Artistic Director Les Waters is pleased to announce that the 50th Anniversary Season continues with Thorton Wilder's "Our Town" starring veteran BRUCE McKENZIE as the "Stage Manager" and in …
As in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," Darrah Cloud's new play, "Our Suburb," attempts to catalogue the waves of joy, anxiety, hope and loss that lap up in an average American community and, in…
The artful simplicity of "Our Town," at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, is enhanced by staging both beautiful and thoughtful.
Playwright Thornton Wilder did not offer "Our Town" as a picture of life in a New Hampshire village. Rather, he wrote, "it is an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest even…
November, it seems, is “Our Town” month in the Lower Hudson Valley. Each weekend from now to Nov. 23, four high schools will present Thornton Wilder’s paean to small-town l…
Even as our values have changed over the 75 years that have passed since it was written, there remains a bedrock foundation of independence and values upon which America was built—the prim…
- it does spruce up a bit what is generally regarded as the play's famously embraced minimalism.
Nisi Sturgis and Jordan Coughtry star in Thornton Wilder's classic
In so many ways, American life has changed in the past 100 years, but the basics are the same: we're born, we grow up, we develop relationships, we cope with life, then we die.
SITE-SPECIFIC IS NOT SO SPECIFIC La Jolla Playhouse supported the trend of site-specific and immersive theater by presenting a four-day program of over 20 different performances in and aroun…
(Actors warm up before a performance of Our Town at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining May 31, 2013. The performance was part of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, a prison-arts progr…
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning drama about the lives, loves and deaths in Grover's Corners has been around since 1938, and Insight Theatre is celebrating the play's 75th anniversar…
Three towns share $250,000 from $4.7 million fund to support creative placemaking
On July 13 and 14 the Paley Center will once again participate in the New York Musical Theatre Festival with a sampler of musicals, including two written specifically for television and a pa…
Mirror Repertory Company and The Greensboro Arts Alliance and Residency announced its summer season, which will include Our Town, The Music Man and a benefit concert featuring Tony Award win…
King's Head Theatre, London: It seems remarkable that Thorton Wilder's sentimental look at small town America still plays at least once somewhere in the US every day. In its 75th annive…
We've all seen those crushing casting calls: "Wanted: Actor with 3+ years' experience and Drama UK accreditation. Must be able to lie still and portray a dead body for an entire scene." It c…
Thornton Wilder won the second of his three Pulitzer Prizes for Our Town in 1938 and the play has been performed somewhere in the United States every night since.
George Street Playhouse and artistic director David Saint have announced four of the five plays comprising the New Brunswick theatre's 40th season.