We thank our promotional partners: The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW) the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Concord Theatricals Miami New Drama NYU/Skirball Center the Thornton Wilder Estate the Writers Guild Foundation. We join Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder’s nephew and literary executor director Michel Hausmann, creator of Miami’s acclaimed trilingual production in Spanish, Haitian Creole, and English and the Sorbonne’s Julie Vatain-Corfdir, translator and director of a French production, for a conversation about the twenty-first-century global rediscovery of Wilder’s greatest play. Pick up a copy of the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder and join us in person to discuss it.

How is it that this quintessentially American masterpiece continues to resonate so profoundly in places where both “our” and “town” mean radically different things? Two early versions of Thornton Wilders Our Town - 1939 radio version starring Orson Welles and audio from the 1940 movie starring William Holden. Audio An illustration of a 3.5' floppy disk.

He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day. May 3, 2022-Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, is one of the most-produced classics in the American repertory. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. Wilder depicts the cycle by having two young citizens of Grovers Corners spontaneously disclose their love for each other. Our Town leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable. Buy the eBook Our Town, A Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder online from Australias leading online eBook store. Thus, love and marriage, a natural phenomenon which perpetuates the human race, dominate the second act. Buy a cheap copy of Our Town: A Play in Three Acts book by Thornton Wilder. Our Town for Our Time: How Thornton Wilder’s Play Speaks to a Changing America and Around the World LOA Live: A conversation with Tappan Wilder, Michel Hausmann, and Julie Vatain-Corfdir Act II presents the second cycle of daily life in a town.

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