Read Kim Jackson's review of Henderson Players' production of OUR TOWN.
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OUR CELEBRATION This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Thornton Wilder. As part of the Wilder125 celebration, about 150 productions of his plays are being staged worldwide, in…
Thorton Wilder's iconic play, "Our Town," directed by Alan Paul, is currently playing at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Some feel that "Our Town" is the greatest American play, but it is d…
The 125th anniversary of Thornton Wilder's birth (April 17, 1897) will be observed throughout 2022 with nearly 150 productions of his plays worldwide"including Our Town, a new production of …
Millennial Notes Thornton Wilder Summons Ghosts of 1900s America by Alex Stimmel As a Los Angeles native, I'm a stranger to the small-town dynamic. Yet Center REP's version of "Our Town" imm…
"Our Town" by Thorton Wilder might arguably be the play that most captures small town America. Although written in 1938 about the imaginary New England town of Grover's Corners sometime …
The first William Redfield (1927-1976) performances I ever saw were among his last (and I figure my experience is not unusual). He was the persnickety "Harding" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's…
Thornton Wilder's Time Travelers Turn into Glorious Ghosts by Barry David Horwitz When I moved to Berkeley in 1960 for school, I thought I'd landed in Thornton Wilder's ideal small town. We …
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Our Town, by Thornton Wilder A P…
The Peterborough Players, which first performed Thornton Wilder's play in 1940, brings a diverse cast and a whole new outlook to its latest production.
These days, I'm not in a mood to be comforted in the theater by either toasting or roasting chestnuts.
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Welcome back, regional theatre! For the past 16 months, we've been sporadically seeing a variety of virtual and drive-in plays, musicals, and revues, but it's great to get back to live, in-p…
