Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN is officially back on Broadway!

The cast of Our Town on stage

If there was ever a question about the durability of art, OUR TOWN is the answer. Throughout its 86 years, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer prize-winning play has proven itself resonant time and time again, and its latest Broadway production helmed by Tony winner, Kenny Leon, is no exception. Star-studded as ever, this visit to Grover’s Corners welcomes such familiar faces as Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, and of course, Jim Parsons, who guides the story as our omniscient Stage Manager. 

It’s 1901, we are somewhere, nowhere, and everywhere, as two families go about their day, two teenagers fall in love, and eventually, many cope with the concept of loss. The three act classic is brisker than ever, raw in its emotion and sincere in its sentimentality. Wilder’s words are simple, striking, and fraught. The theatre feels immense and each viewer oh so small, because life is huge and weighty and brief, and that is as true as ever; need you a reminder, Our Town can provide, packing the same punch as it always has.