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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.
Our Town is a 1940 American drama romance film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George Gibbs. The cast also included Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee and Frank Craven. It was adapted by Harry Chandlee, Craven and Wilder, and directed ...
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.
Our Town marks a Broadway return for Holmes, who made her debut in the 2008 revival of All My Sons, and later starred in the 2012 play Dead Accounts. Holmes noted that Our Town is a particularly ...
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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 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.
Wilder's two previous full-length plays — “Our Town” and “The Skin of Our Teeth” — each won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. His novel “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” won the fiction ...