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OUR TOWN, directed by Mary Zimmerman, opens Cleveland Playhouse’s Season from September 7 - 28th. Tickets on sale now.

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In this remarkable collection of Wilder’s letters, eavesdrop on conversations with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edward Albee, and Mia Farrow to name a few.

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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

Credit: Julieta Cervantes

 

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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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In 1929, Robert Maynard Hutchins, the newly minted president of the University of Chicago, offered his longtime friend Thornton Wilder the opportunity to teach annually on a part-time basis.  Despite Wilder’s international acclaim as a nov
Meet George Marvin Brush — Don Quixote come to Main Street in the Great Depression, and one of Wilder’s most memorable characters. Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good life.
On this day in 1955, the Broadway revival of The Skin of Our Teeth opened at the ANTA Playhouse, now the August Wilson Theatre (currently home to Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club). The production was directed by Alan Schneider, the cast included Helen Ha
Happy Birthday Alfred Hitchcock! Hitchcock knew he wanted the man who wrote Our Town to write the screenplay for his film A Shadow of A Doubt. And in 1942, Wilder went to Hollywood to work on it with him. The opening credits of the film include
We’re getting excited for The Seat of Our Pants - Ethan Lipton’s adaptation of The Skin of Our Teeth, directed by Leigh Silverman @publictheaterny in October. So this week from the Archives we’re featuring the 2017 production, dire
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

 

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