This past summer, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival produced Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN with a company of 3 professional actors and 36 citizen actors from towns dotted around the theatre’s performance-space home in Garrison, NY.
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Dámaso Rodriguez on directing The Skin of Our Teeth at Artists Rep in Portland, OR
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What makes Thornton Wilder such a hit with tweens and teens? Why did Wilder never marry? And what do Wilder and George Bernard Shaw share in common? Tappan Wilder spoke with director Molly Smith whose production of OUR TOWN, opens at The Shaw Festival this week.
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Goodman Theatre revives The Matchmaker, Thornton Wilder’s rarely seen 20th Century farce, through a 21st Century lens.
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Program notes from the Yale School of Drama's recent production of The Skin of Our Teeth
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Luke Harlan, a graduate student at The Yale School of Drama, talks about directing The Skin of Our Teeth for his directing thesis.
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As the playwright reminded fans over and over, Our Town is not about small town life but Life itself – “it’s about everywhere.” And “everywhere” would certainly seem to describe the rich diversity of the play’s sources, as well as the variety of locations where the playwright did his work.
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When we performed the play for the population of the prison, the unnamed dead, in their state green uniforms, were wearing, of course, exactly the same thing as the audience.
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