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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As the playwright reminded fans over and over, Our Town is not about small town life but Life itself – “it’s about everywhere.” And “everywhere” would certainly seem to describe the rich diversity of the play’s sources, as well as the variety of locations where the playwright did his work.
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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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The "Nine City" legend has its roots in Thornton Wilder's classic novel, Theophilus North, which was first published in 1973. Lace up your best sneakers. You're going to be padding around nine parallel worlds that are layered within this coastal town of only about 26,000 people.
Read MoreThe Thornton Wilder Family recently received an exciting note from Abigail Sánchez, the dramaturg on a production of Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha which will open in March 2015 at Mexico City's Sergio Magaña Theater, directed by Alejandra Aguilar and Cristian José García.
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After a delay of sixty-seven years, audiences will have an opportunity to witness a "new" adaptation of a theatrical classic by a team of gifted American playwrights who stand tall for Restoration drama, Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig, who both separately and now as one explore ways to stage this classic drama for the 21st century audience.
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Edelstein also wanted his version of the play, which is set in 1901 in the fictitious town of Grover's Corners, N.H., to have relevance to today — and especially to New Haven, which is made up of a myriad mix of classes, cultures, faiths and races. He also cast it with actors who have been associated with the theater over the decades.
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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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