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Our Town (Bilingual) Now Available for Licensing to North American Professional Theatres
Our Town (Bilingual) Now Available for Licensing to North American Professional Theatres
Happy Birthday, Gertrude Stein!
Happy Birthday, Gertrude Stein!
A 2024 WILDER GIFT GUIDE
A 2024 WILDER GIFT GUIDE
Celebrating Thornton Wilder: A Legacy of Humanity and Connection
Celebrating Thornton Wilder: A Legacy of Humanity and Connection
Cast of OUR TOWN Celebrates TOM LAKE Author Ann Patchett
Cast of OUR TOWN Celebrates TOM LAKE Author Ann Patchett
An Our Town for All of Us
An Our Town for All of Us
Seattle Rep swings big with surreal classic 'The Skin of Our Teeth'
Seattle Rep swings big with surreal classic 'The Skin of Our Teeth'
Off-Broadway's Public Adds Skin of Our Teeth Musical to 2025 Slate
Off-Broadway's Public Adds Skin of Our Teeth Musical to 2025 Slate
Our Town's Town
Our Town's Town
Yesterday's Broadway Warhorses, Saddles with Today's Concerns
Yesterday's Broadway Warhorses, Saddles with Today's Concerns

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Hello, Dolly! at Arizona Broadway Theatre

from January 17 - February 21

Book of the month

Head to the Mediterranean Sea with The Woman of Andros - Wilder’s sophisticated and short novella set in Antiquity on a fictional island.

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The wilder Family

The Wilder family made marks across generations. Learn more about their contributions to society that span many fields.

Broadway's Our Town Took A Field Trip to Peterborough

Credit: Jenny Anderson

The skin of our teeth at lincoln Center

 
 

WATCH: Thornton Wilder & Jose Quintero at a rehearsal for Plays For Bleecker Street

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Happy 86th birthday to The Merchant of Yonkers! On this day Wilder’s indelible character Dolly Gallagher Levi was put in print for the first time. More than a decade after its run on Broadway, Tyrone Guthrie asked Wilder to make what Wilder ca
With Our Town (Bilingual) now available for North America professional licensing @concordofficial we’ve been in the archives looking at images from Our Town (Multilingual). This production shot is from the 2022 production @dallastheatercenter d
On this day in 1938, Our Town opened on Broadway for the very first time. The rest is history. Pictured here are John Craven and Martha Scott in that original production at the Henry Miller Theatre (now the Stephen Sondheim Theatre and home to &amp
Happy Birthday Gertrude Stein. A generation apart in age, Wilder and Stein met in 1934. Their close friendship and remarkable correspondence lasted until Stein’s death. In one of the first letters between the two, Stein wrote: “Here we
This week from the Wilder Archives we’re taking a look back at the 2016 production of The Matchmaker @goodmantheatre directed by Henry Wishcamper and starring Liz Lauren as Dolly Levi (pictured here). This iconic character was first introduced
Now Playing: OUR TOWN @teatrul.tineretului teatrul.tineretului in Neamț, Romania in a translation by Radu Lupan. The show concept is by Teodora Petre and Velica Panduru and the production is directed by Teodora Petre. It runs through March 1. #thorn
Happy Birthday Tallulah Bankhead. She is pictured here as Sabina in 1942, in the original Broadway production of The Skin of Our Teeth, directed by Elia Kazan. She won a Variety Award and the New York Drama Critics Award for her work. The Skin of O
Wilder knew everybody, and this collection of letters vividly document the range of his friendships. Readers will find him roller-skating with Walt Disney, hanging out at the White House, describing his life as a soldier in 2 World Wars, mentoring

 

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