Articles about Our Town
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The bare stage in Our Town could be a reflection of how we come into and leave the world. With nothing. Thornton Wilder's classic piece is having a 75th year celebration at Ford's Theatr…
The stark visual eloquence of Ford's Theatre's revival of "Our Town" informs Thornton Wilder's portrait of the ordinary joys and sorrows of fictional Grover's Corners, N.H. But the picture p…
You have to love life to have life and you have to live to love it. But so few of those who have life even realize that they have it let alone love it. That dawning realization flashes throu…
The prospects looked grim during the Boston tryouts for Our Town. Business at the box office was poor, and puzzled Bostonians walked out during the performances. After all, there was no scen…
A nontraditional cast takes on the timeless Thornton Wilder play Our Town, featuring actress Portia as The Stage Manager, in a new 75th-anniversary production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning c…
FEBRUARY 4, 2013AT FORD'S THEATRE
ROCCO LANDESMAN TO RECEIVETHORNTON WILDER PRIZE
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The Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables is among the titles announced for Surflight Theatre's 64th season of "Broadway at the Beach" in Beach Haven, NJ.
New biography sheds light on Thornton Wilder, the influence of his childhood and his love of Chicago
striver Amos Parker Wilder, had a sophisticated and peripatetic, if perennially impecuni…
The Huntington Theatre Company is remounting the 2009 Off-Broadway production with Obie Award winner Cromer reprising his role as Stage Manager (through December 30) and imparting his contem…
A multiracial, nontraditional cast will take on the timeless Thornton Wilder play Our Town, featuring actress Portia as The Stage Manager, in a new 75th-anniversary production of the Pulitze…
Bare bones, determinedly unhokey, and intimate, director David Cromer's matter-of-fact approach does away with the irritatingly self-conscious fussiness that afflicts so many productions.
Therese Plaehn, David Cromer, and Derrick Trumbly in Our Town. Photo: T. Charles Erickson.This is just an early warning to fans of the Hub Review regarding the Huntington's re-mounting…
David Cromer's Obie Award-winning 2009 Off-Broadway staging of Our Town officially opens Dec. 12 at Boston's Calderwood Pavilion. Derrick Trumbly, Therese Plaehn, Stacy Fischer and C…
Derrick Trumbly, Therese Plaehn, Stacy Fischer and Christopher Tarjan join actor-director David Cromer for the Huntington Theatre Company production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Cromer…
Derrick Trumbly, Therese Plaehn, Stacy Fischer and Christopher Tarjan will join David Cromer for the Huntington Theatre Company production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Cromer brings hi…
David Cromer will play the Stage Manager through December 30 in his own production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town at The Huntington Theatre Company's Roberts Studio Theatre. Joel Cololdner wi…
I have many irrational (thus heartfelt) reasons for loving Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner Our Town. One is that I lived for two months in the studio in which Wilder wrote…
"Very ordinary town, if you ask me." Mr. Webb, Our Town by Thornton Wilder On July 12, the NEA announced the 2012 Our Town grant recipients, and whether or not Wilder's eponymous paean to sm…
Given that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman has a theatre background, it should come as no surprise that he named one of his signature initiatives after a T…
While the clarion call is "Let's put on a show!" Barnyard Theatre doesn't harken back to musicals of the '30s (kind of too bad in a way). These precocious kids – who are young adults at…
I have finally had an opportunity to take a look at the NEA's announcement of the 2012 Our Town grants, and a quick overview makes me pleased. First of all, the press release very explicitly…
Our Town is one of the most delectable chestnuts of the American stage and also one of its great paradoxes — a thoroughly life-affirming play that, when done well, makes you sad.In pro…
Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company offers a sturdy version of Thornton Wilder's masterpiece outdoors, in parks and public spaces across the region. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro r…
Firth Hall, University of Sheffield: Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is revived by the Shota Rustaveli company and proves a highlight of this year's ISDF programme…
Berry Gordy Jr. was in town last month meeting with agents, theater owners and producers about an autobiographical musical using his Motown catalog of hits.
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