Archival PhotosCelebrate Our Town With a Look Back at Past Broadway ProductionsThe Thornton Wilder play debuted on Broadway January 22, 1938.
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Playbill Staff
January 22, 2018
Thornton Wilder called the theatre “the greatest of all the arts,” and many have called his play Our Town one of the greatest American plays of all time.
Eighty-two years after its premiere on Broadway, the show is performed at least once every night somewhere in the United States, and throughout the world.
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Look Back at Past Performances of Our Town on Broadway
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.