NEW YORK — Most great plays are about death, but Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” is the most likely American play of the 20th century to have you walking out of the theater determined to do ...

With so much turmoil in the world, it’s at least a little comforting that things haven’t changed much in Grover’s Corners, the place that gives Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938 ...

Promoted as an “Our Town” for “our time,” the new Broadway production of Thornton Wilder ’s play has overlooked an olfactory trigger warning—odd given the sometimes comical list of ...

A soulless decision by Major League Baseball to eliminate 42 of its minor-league affiliates is what led Will Bardenwerper to ...

In the course of his career, Thornton Wilder wrote plays, novels and essays — but none as enduring as Our Town. Wilder biographer Penelope Niven attributes the play's success to its universal ...

Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’ to Return to Broadway Next Fall A new production, directed by Kenny Leon, will feature a diverse cast and will aim to speak to contemporary America.

Few eyes are dry by the time the curtain falls. “Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’ in my mind stands at the top of the Mount Rushmore of great American Theatre,” said Leon.

Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, directed by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon, opened on Thursday, October 10 at the Barrymore Theatre where the production is running for a strictly limited engagement.

Thornton Wilder, who won Pulitzer Prizes for his 1928 novel “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” and his 1938 play “Our Town,” is shown in 1968. (File photo by the Associated Press) ...

Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Our Town" uses a narrator, flashbacks and dialogue to explore life, love and death in the fictional town of Grover's Corners, N.H., which represents ...