Our Town
Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town continues to leave audiences awestruck with wonder and a shared sense of our humanity. Guided by an amiable stage manager, the theatre becomes turn-of-the-century Grover’s Corners, where the occurrences of everyday life reveal universal truths about community and love, life, and death. “A hauntingly beautiful play” (The New York Times), Our Town is both deeply allegorical and endlessly captivating. Directed by STC’s Associate Artistic Director Alan Paul (Camelot), Our Town will celebrate the artists who call the DMV-area home.
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Reviews
“A TRIUMPHANT PRODUCTION filled with vitality, consequence, appeal and everyday gumption…Takes on new resonance and depth in the capable hands of an extraordinary ensemble.” –BroadwayWorld
“The uniformly EXCELLENT performances, directed BEAUTIFULLY by Alan Paul, made me feel lucky to live in an area where such skill and artistry are available to us on a regular basis.” –DC Theater Arts
“★★★★…Reflecting on the eternal and the ephemeral, Our Town hits every note in Thornton Wilder’s classic symphony of Americana.” –Metro Weekly
“STELLAR…Our Town showcases depth of D.C. acting talent.” –The Washington Post
“FRESH…INSPIRATIONAL…You will fall in love.” –MD Theatre Guide
“The HEART of this production is Holly Twyford as the omniscient Stage Manager, who with great warmth and compassion sets the scenes…Chinna Palmer and Jake Loewenthal give GLOWING performances, individually and together, as Emily and George.” –Talkin’ Broadway
“EMOTIONAL…It’s a perfect pairing of story and casting.” –Two Hours’ Traffic
Health and Safety
For the run of Our Town, STC will require that all patrons provide proof of vaccination to attend any performances or events. In addition to audiences, STC has mandated COVID-19 vaccinations for all performers and theatre staff. Please visit our Health and Safety page for full guidelines about providing proof of vaccination at the theatre.
Only performers and people invited onstage for talkbacks will be unmasked. We ask that attendees remain masked while within our venues, including during performances, unless they are eating and drinking in designated lobby areas. STC is committed to the safety and wellbeing of everyone in our spaces, and we are monitoring the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and will make adjustments as needed. Thank you for your understanding.
THORNTON WILDER (1897–1975) was a pivotal figure in the literary history of the twentieth-century. A novelist and a playwright, his works celebrate the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. He is the only writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for both drama and fiction: for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and two plays, Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth. His other novels include The Cabala, The Woman of Andros, Heaven’s My Destination, The Ides of March, The Eighth Day, and Theophilus North. His other major dramas include The Matchmaker (adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!) and The Alcestiad. The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Pullman Car Hiawatha, and The Long Christmas Dinner are among his well-known shorter plays. He enjoyed enormous success as a translator, adaptor, actor, librettist, and lecturer/teacher and his screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day. Wilder’s many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. More information on Thornton Wilder and his family is available in Penelope Niven’s definitive biography, Thornton Wilder: A Life (2013) as well as on the Wilder Family website 