Our Town

Theater Review: Our Town in Santa Monica

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Helen Hunt, Our Town, Barrow Street Theatre, Off-Broadway, Thorton Wilder, Santa Monica, Tony Award, Los Angeles, New York, David Cromer, Arts News
Hoyt Hilsman

Thorton Wilder's play is arguably the greatest work in American dramatic literature. It combines elements of the mundane and universal, the quotidian and the divine, the parochial and the eternal.

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Astoria Characters: The Dedicated Doctor

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Astoria, Bronx, Pied Piper, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, Oncology, Tom Moulton, Walkathon, Brimfield, Orchid, Montefiore Medical Center, Our Town, Sickle Cell Thalassemia Patients Network, Phalaenopsis, Hematology, Case Western Reserve University, Brendan Fay, Soda Bread, Thornton Wilder, New York News, Dominican Republic, Cat, Peanut Brittle, Krakow, Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Nancy Ruhling, Columbia University, Cleveland, Poland, St. John''s in the Village Episcopal Church, Bagels, Dignity/USA, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Dr. Tom Moulton arrives cradling an orchid in one hand and a loaf of home-made soda bread in the other. My white phalaenopsis is wilting, so he rushed right over.

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You've Got to Be Carefully Taught

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Our Town, Immigration Reform, South Pacific, Entertainment, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall, Race, New York, Thornton Wilder, Ground Zero Mosque, Arts, Politics News
Michael Winship

As citizens of the nation continue through the summer, distracting themselves by howling at the moon and one another, I spent this past weekend in Manhattan seeing revivals of two classic period pieces of American theater.

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Theater Review: "Our Town" With Helen Hunt Still Shines

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yank! A WWII Love Story, Helen Hunt, Our Town, Theater, Off Broadway, Thornton Wilder, David Cromer, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Unlike most productions of Our Town, this one comes much closer to the heart of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.

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Michael Shannon Channels Kim Fowley in Runaways

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oliver Stone, Punk Rock, Prohibition, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Bug, Boardwalk Empire, The Runaways, Joan Jett, Marshall Fine Interview, Our Town, Kim Fowley, Floria Sigismondi, William Friedkin, Tom Snyder, Revolutionary Road, World Trade Center, Michael Shannon Interview, Sam Mendes, Thornton Wilder, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

The Los Angeles punk music scene is at the center of The Runaways, which opened in limited release on March 19 and goes wider in a couple of weeks.

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Willem Dafoe: The Village Idiot and Our Town

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Our Town, The Public Theater, Diot Savant, Thornton Wilder, Willem Dafoe, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

There's been talk that the much lauded production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town will move to Broadway. While the producers deliberate this move, let me say, you can really smell the bacon in this play.

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Forget the Facebook Quizzes: This'll Tell You Who You Are

Suzanne Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Our Town, Eudora Welty, Reading, Re-Reading, Francois Mauriac, Hemingway, Facebook Quizzes, Ana Akhmatova, A Moveable Feast, Books News
Suzanne Morrison

Shut down your Facebook page. Do it now, and give this a try.

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