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OUR TOWN opens Cleveland Playhouse’s Season from September 7 - 28th. Tickets on sale now.

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Meet George Marvin Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, and one of Thornton Wilder’s most memorable characters.

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

OUR TOWN BROADWAY’S FIELD TRIP TO PETERBOROUGH & MACDOWELL

Credit: Jenny Anderson

The skin of our teeth at lincoln Center

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WATCH: Our Town: A Wilder Moment or 60 seconds with Tappan Wilder on his uncle’s Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic.

 

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The Matchmaker @hvshakespeare is a New York Times Critics Pick.! “The play is hardly old-fashioned – or to put it another way, it’s eternal. (Wilder, the author of “Our Town,” is always interested in the eternities.)&rdq
Happy Birthday Ernest Hemingway! Wilder and Hemingway first met in Paris in 1926 and their friendship continued for many years afterwards. Wilder called him “the hot sketch of all time.” And Hemingway invited Wilder to “K.West&rdqu
On this day in fiction, in 1714, “the finest bridge in all Peru broke.” And so begins Wilder’s 1927 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. In celebration of this literary moment, we bring you one of our favorite
This week from the Our Town archives, we’re looking at the 2022 production @shakespeareindc This production was directed by Alan Paul. Pictured is Maisie Ann Posnet as Rebecca Gibbs. #thorntonwilder #ourtown #fromthearchives #productionphoto
Jaws turns 50 this year. Wilder, who had a home on Martha’s Vineyard, was there in 1974, the summer it was filmed. He wrote to his neice Catherine Dix Wilder: “The actor Robert Shaw [pictured] is here, star of JAWS which is being interm
It’s time for summer reading which means it’s time for Wilder’s best beach read - Theophilus North. The last of Thornton Wilder’s works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the im
In honor of #nationalpostagestampday may we present Carol Channing and “the first lick” of the Thornton Wilder commemorative stamp issued @uspostalservice in honor of Wilder’s 100th birthday on April 17, 1997. To learn more about th

 

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