What makes Thornton Wilder such a hit with tweens and teens? Why did Wilder never marry? And what do Wilder and George Bernard Shaw share in common? Tappan Wilder spoke with director Molly Smith whose production of OUR TOWN, opens at The Shaw Festival this week.
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Goodman Theatre revives The Matchmaker, Thornton Wilder’s rarely seen 20th Century farce, through a 21st Century lens.
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Dan Wackerman, Artistic Director of Peccadillo Theater Company, recently directed A Wilder Christmas and sat down to discuss the experience.
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Stage and screen star Bette Midler has announced that she will play Dolly Gallagher Levi in a Broadway revival of the blockbuster 1964 musical, Hello, Dolly!
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Last week, we lost a great friend and colleague in Tim Vasen who died on Monday, December 28.
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Two rarely seen one-act plays that serve as previews of ‘Our Town’.
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Q & A with Carol Dunne, Northern Stage’s Artistic Director. Ms. Dunne recently helmed Our Town, the inaugural production in the new Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction, VT.
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An interview with Dave Landis on playing Horace Vandergelder in The Matchmaker at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN
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Janie McCauley reviews the Bridge Records CD release of the original English language version of Paul Hindemith's final opera, “The Long Christmas Dinner”," with a libretto by Thornton Wilder.
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Program notes from the Yale School of Drama's recent production of The Skin of Our Teeth
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Luke Harlan, a graduate student at The Yale School of Drama, talks about directing The Skin of Our Teeth for his directing thesis.
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Who has nudged you lately, at your water cooler or watering hole, to ask: “Have you read Thornton Wilder’s prose masterpiece, The Bridge of San Luis Rey?”
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"I would call it comedy of manners with a bite,” Tappan Wilder said of his uncle’s play found in archives at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. “It’s a mystery as to how close he came to finishing it. The third act is not polished. The third act is in his handwriting.”
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When we performed the play for the population of the prison, the unnamed dead, in their state green uniforms, were wearing, of course, exactly the same thing as the audience.
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