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Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
This is a definitive edition of Thornton Wilder's best-known and most frequently performed play. First produced and pub- lished in 1938, at which time it won the Pulitzer Prize, its reputation...
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Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" may be the best known, most widely produced and deceptively simple of American plays. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "OUR TOWN")
Our Town, drama in three acts by Thornton Wilder, produced and published in 1938. It won a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1938. The play is considered a classic portrayal of small-town American life.
Our Town, a play by Thornton Wilder, was first performed in 1938 and has since become a staple of American theater. The play is a three-act exploration of life, love, and death in the fictional town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire.
A minimalist theatrical style sets apart the 1938 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Wilder’s greatest and best-known work as a playwright, Our Town opens with the Stage Manager’s introduction to Grover’s Corners, a fictional town based on Peterborough, New Hampshire where Wilder often spent his summers.
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This timeless drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, has become an American classic with universal appeal. Thornton Wilder's most frequently performed play, Our Town appeared on Broadway in 1938 to wide acclaim, and won the Pulitzer Prize.