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Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. Wilder uses metatheatrical devices, setting the play in the ...
Thornton M. Niven. Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
The cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of Our Town took a field trip on Monday, Aug. 12 to Peterborough, N.H. — the quaint New England locale where Thornton Wilder penned his timeless play.
Our Town. (2003 film) Our Town is a 2003 American made-for-television film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder starring Paul Newman, who was nominated for both an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding acting. It was filmed at the Booth Theatre in Manhattan, where it played on Broadway in 2002.
“Our Town is my favorite play in the world,” says Julie Halston, a lucky thing considering the celebrated actress will be playing Mrs. Soames in the Broadway revival of the Thornton Wilder ...
Wilder's draw is as strong as ever, with a starry revival of “Our Town” scheduled for Broadway this fall with Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Richard Thomas and Ephraim Sykes.