OUR TOWN

By Thornton Wilder, Directed by Jennifer Dean
Show Producer: Amy Sutton & Gary Chiles
Associate Show Producers: The Vivian L. Smith Foundation and The Strake Foundation

November 21 - December 20, 2025

Winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

OUR TOWN follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through daily life, love, and loss. With minimal props and a stage manager as narrator, it tells the story of the Webb and Gibbs families as their children grow up, marry, and face mortality.

“One of the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre.”
– New York Post

“Thornton Wilder's masterpiece... An immortal tale of small town morality... a classic of soft spoken theater.” —The New York Times

“No play ever moved me so deeply.” – Alexander Woolcott, The New Yorker

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Industry Night
(Pay-What-You-Will)
Monday, December 15 @ 7:30PM
The performance is approximately 2 hours including an intermission.
OUR TOWN | Full Program
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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was a novelist and playwright whose works celebrate the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. He is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes 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, www.thorntonwilder.com