Backstage at the Broadway play, they’re frying up the aroma of breakfast — part of a long tradition of adding scents to plays and movies. Meghan Abel, the head of the Barrymore Theater’s prop ...

Wendy Maples is an actress, director, playwright, and teacher, and she can now add “Stage Manager” to her resume. At least as the main character of that title in “Our Town,” playing February 28-March ...

The revival also stars Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Ephraim Sykes, and more. “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it — every, every minute?” So goes the question asked and answered by ...

With so much turmoil in the world, it’s at least a little comforting that things haven’t changed much in Grover’s Corners, the place that gives Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938 report from ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Pick The Thornton Wilder classic returns to Broadway, still brutal and avant-garde after 86 years. Jim Parsons as the Stage Manager in the Broadway revival of “Our Town ...

Sometimes — very rarely — a director does something so striking with a play that interpretation seems to fuse with bone structure, and it’s damnably hard to clear the board for future explorations.

Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s depiction of rural New England life in the early 1900s, is among the most frequently performed plays in the U.S. Making the classic feel fresh is no easy feat. But an ...

I loved Our Town when I was sixteen and played Emily at school, but I didn’t remember much about it. I knew that Thornton Wilder’s play was a sweetly moving evocation of small-town American life at ...

The play "Our Town" is an American classic. It was written in 1938, and it's still staged all over the country in high schools and regional theaters. And now it's back on Broadway, after a journey ...