
What is left of Thornton Wilder, our only writer to have won a Pulitzer Prize for both drama twice and fiction, and at one time a kind of semi-official cultural spokesman for America? The Library of America has devoted three volumes to his work—sometimes the kiss of life, sometimes the kiss of death. I myself, in my senior year—back inwhen the play was only ten years old—was attempting, against the odds, to be New Englandy as the Stage Manager.
Thornton Wilder created a substantial body of work but there seems little doubt that his lasting fame depends on Our Town. Since its opening on Broadway 70 years ago this extraordinary play has never really been off the stage. New productions of it open somewhere in the world almost every month.

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Yale, Yale's Beinecke Rare Book Library. I spoke with him after his speech and he called me up by phone a few weeks later saying he wanted to stop over for a drink after the Board Meeting in New Haven He was on the Yale Corporation's Board of Trustees. I was an impoverished apartment superintendent for low income tenants two blocks from Yale on the border of the ghetto.
The abundant annotations and appendices offered are consistently provocative, imparting an additional quality of detail that transforms the two writers' correspondence into a full-scale narrative. An informal collaboration between the two great minds, enhanced by adept editorial stewardship. Fundamentally a chronicle of caring, the 'Letters' are required reading to understand Stein, Wilder and the work fueled by their friendship.


Act I establishes the first order: Deftly handling nuances of character, the ensemble as a whole captures innocence, which arrives like the early summer sun, and depth, with pauses and words that fall, hinting at gravity and the changing, cooler seasons ahead. We meet the Gibbs and Webb families, along with other townspeople. Guided by the Stage Manager the narrator, Madeline H.
Its depiction of ordinary life in rural New Hampshire during the early years of the twentieth century has led many to treat it as a nostalgic, rose-tinted paean to small-town values. Years ago, I made the mistake of expressing this uninformed view to the late American playwright and pioneering gay activist, Doric Wilson. The play no longer moves or even interests me; now all I want out of it is money. Wilder was also unimpressed by the television adaptation of the play, for which the crowd-pleasing interpolations were musical.
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