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A 2024 WILDER GIFT GUIDE
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Celebrating Thornton Wilder: A Legacy of Humanity and Connection
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Cast of OUR TOWN Celebrates TOM LAKE Author Ann Patchett
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An Our Town for All of Us
Seattle Rep swings big with surreal classic 'The Skin of Our Teeth'
Seattle Rep swings big with surreal classic 'The Skin of Our Teeth'
Off-Broadway's Public Adds Skin of Our Teeth Musical to 2025 Slate
Off-Broadway's Public Adds Skin of Our Teeth Musical to 2025 Slate
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Our Town's Town
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Yesterday's Broadway Warhorses, Saddles with Today's Concerns
Our Town Broadway Heads to Grover's Corners
Our Town Broadway Heads to Grover's Corners
The American Academy of Arts & Letters Presents the 2024 Wilder Prize for Translation
The American Academy of Arts & Letters Presents the 2024 Wilder Prize for Translation

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Meet George Brush — Don Quixote comes to Main Street in the Great Depression — one of Wilder’s most memorable characters.

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Happy 90th publishing birthday to Wilder’s novel Heaven’s My Destination. First published on this day in 1934, Wilder’s novel features one of his most memorable characters. Meet George Brush - a traveling textbook salesman and a fe
In celebration of @ourtownbroadway we’ve created a curated collection of perfect pairings with Wilder’s classic for gifting inspiration this holiday season. Whether it’s a pair of Pulitzer Prizes, two for the 21st Century, Our Town
If Our Town was a superhero, then Wilder’s Classic One Acts would be the origin story. Here, Concord’s Acting Edition is paired with the acting edition of Classic One Acts that includes Long Christmas Dinner, Queens of France, Pullman Car
This week from the Our Town Archives, we’re highlighting the 2011 production at Tokyo’s New National Theatre. Directed by Miyata Keiko and with a translation by Mizutani Hachiya, this production featured Kosakai Kazuki as the Stage Manage
We like to think that no bookshelf would be complete without a pair of Pulitzer Prizes. Wilders won his first Pulitzer for The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) and his second for Our Town (1938). True American classics, these books are exceptional examp
@ourtownbroadway inspired us to create our 2024 holiday gift guide as a series of perfect pairings with Our Town. We’re kicking it off with two of our favorites from Concord Theatricals who underscore that even at 86, this play is very much a
Today in 1942, Wilder’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, premiered on Broadway at The Plymouth Theatre (now the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre and home to The Notebook). The production, directed by Elia Kazan, featured Fre
On this day in 1969, the second Broadway revival of Our Town opened at the ANTA Playhouse (now the August Wilson Theatre and home to Cabaret). Featuring Henry Fonda as the Stage Manager, this production was directed by Donald Driver. Pictured here a

 

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