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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", it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
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A curated collection of the very best videos about Wilder's eternally classic play, Our Town.
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A short summary of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Our Town.
Our Town, a play by Thornton Wilder, was first performed in 1938 and has since become a staple of American theater. The play is a three-act exploration of life, love, and death in the fictional town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire.
“Our Town’s” significance was not immediately obvious, nor did it have an easy birth. The play’s long journey to Princeton, and the genesis of Wilder’s mythical town, began in 1920, in Rome. Wilder, 23, was a student at the American Academy, studying Italian, Latin and, notably, archaeology.
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.
Paul Newman stars as the Stage Manager in a sterling restaging of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about life in a small New Hampshire town in the early 1900s.
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