Howard Sherman discusses what makes for a classic play and if all plays should be considered to be about the human condition ...

Mr. Wheeler was encouraged to enroll in the Yale School of Drama by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and novelist, Thornton Wilder ... plays and musicals, to poetry, novels, humor books, a ...

He later served as a student pilot in the Navy and, in 1961, enrolled in the Yale School of Drama, where, at the encouragement of the writer Thornton Wilder, whom he met at a staging of Mr. Wilder ...

In the final act of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” as Emily Webb resigns herself ... Prayer has long been phased out of American schooling, but its replacement—poetry—has also dissolved from our ...

With so much turmoil in the world, it’s at least a little comforting that things haven’t changed much in Grover’s Corners, ...

One of director Kenny Leon’s distinctive gifts is his ability to take a canonical American play and make it feel like it was ...

The Monadnock Center for History and Culture will host “Downtown in Our Town: A Thornton Wilder Walking Tour” in Peterborough on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 10:30 a.m.

The new production of the canonical American play, directed by Kenny Leon, sees the classic through through a contemporary ...

Beth Fertig went along for the ride. BETH FERTIG: Thornton Wilder based the mythical Grover's Corners on the very real small town of Peterborough, N.H. That's where the cast and crew of the new ...

Kenny Leon’s emotionally charged revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre has opened with an engaging if stylistically varied ...