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Our Town Broadway’s last weekend!

 
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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
Our Town Broadway Heads to Grover's Corners
Our Town Broadway Heads to Grover's Corners
The American Academy of Arts & Letters Presents the 2024 Wilder Prize for Translation
The American Academy of Arts & Letters Presents the 2024 Wilder Prize for Translation

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Hello, Dolly! at Arizona Broadway Theatre

from January 17 - February 21

Book of the month

In this extraordinary collection of letters, eavesdrop on Wilder’s conversations with Hemingway, Stein, Olivier, Albee, and many more!

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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: It’s Time - dive into this brand documentary short about Wilder’s life and works

WATCH: LOA Live: How Thornton Wilder’s Play Speaks to a Changing America and Around the World

 

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Happy 77th birthday to The Ides of March! Thornton Wilder’s celebrated epistolary novel was published on this day in 1948. As Jeremy McCarter says, this tale of Caesar’s life is so much more than just togas and declensions: “it f
Doffing our cap for #nationalhatday and to the extraordinary cast, crew and creative team @ourtownbroadway. Just a handful of performances left for this wonder of a production! #thorntonwilder #tippinghat #vintagephotography #ourtown #lastchance
Happy Birthday Isabel Wilder! Thornton’s sister Isabel attended some thirteen schools by the time she was twenty. As a result, she never attended college. She was, however, a member of the first graduating class @geffenyale (1928). Of all the
This week from the Our Town Archives, we’re highlighting the 2018 production @milwrep Brent Hazelton directed this production, featuring Laura Gordon as the Stage Manager (pictured here with the cast). Photo by Michael Brosilow. To learn more
On this day in 1938, Wilder’s play The Merchant of Yonkers, opened on Broadway. Directed by Max Reinhardt, the production featured Percy Waram and Jane Cowl (pictured here). In 1954, Wilder made what he later termed “minor revisions&rdqu
Today from the Our Town Archives, we’re heading to Miami Beach and the landmark 2017 multilingual production @miaminewdrama Directed by Michel Hausmann (the 2022 recipient of the Wilder Award), this production included translations by Nilo Cr
The best of 2024 sounds pretty great to us!! Thanks @nytimes and the wonder that is @ourtownbroadway #thortonwilder #ourtown #onbroadway #thebest #bestoftheyear #nowplaying

 

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