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Thornton Wilder

Easy Reader: Thornton Wilder's Biography By Penelope Niven Is a Must Read

David Finkle | Posted 01.25.2013 | Books
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David Finkle

Were Thornton Wilder notable for only explicating one thing -- he's notable for many -- it would be the hope for the human race he promotes in the 1938 play 1938 Our Town and in the 1942 Pulitzer-Prize-winning Skin of Our Teeth.

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Lively, Versatile Performances Carry Thornton Wilder One-acts at Aurora

Leo Stutzin | Posted 11.12.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: San Francisco Around Town, Aurora Theatre, Berkeley, Wilder Times, Thornton Wilder, Wilder Times Show, San Francisco Theater, Wilder Times Program, San Francisco News
Leo Stutzin

In the late 1950s Thornton Wilder started a project that was to become a series of short plays depicting the fabled Seven Ages of Man. The first two works, Infancy and Childhood, sparkle on Aurora Theatre's intimate stage in Berkeley.

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The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History

Dave Astor | Posted 10.08.2011 | Books
Read More: Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Bronte, William Thackeray, Classic Novels, Emily Bronte, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Theodore Dreiser, Herman Melville, Honore De Balzac, Charlotte Bronte, Five Year Plan, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Great Authors, Alexandre Dumas, Willa Cather, Thornton Wilder, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

They were unplanned "Five-Year Plans" for the ages: the amazing proliferation of classic novels published from 1846 to 1851 and from 1922 to 1927. And, believe it or not, one author had a book in both those periods!

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Astoria Characters: The Dedicated Doctor

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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 | Politics
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 | Entertainment
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 | Entertainment
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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The Scottsboro Boys: New Kander-Ebb Musical, Old Kander-Ebb Formula

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: The Skin of Our Teeth, Samuel Liebowitz, Brandon Victor Dixon, Jason Robert Brown, Chicago, Kurt Weill, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sharon Washington, The Visit, Manuel Puig, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Leo Frank, Jerome Kern, Hal Prince, Parade, Musical Comedy, John Cullum, Cabaret, Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Foster, Thornton Wilder, Susan Stroman, Fred Ebb, Berlin Stories, Edna Ferber, David Thompson, Show Boat, John Kander, The Scottsboro Boys, Bertolt Brecht, Vineyard Theatre, Christopher Isherwood, Colman Domingo, Forrest McClendon, New York News
David Finkle

Time was, audiences went to musicals--more often called musical comedies then--to see famous entertainers sing great songs written by first-rate lyric...

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Willem Dafoe: The Village Idiot and Our Town

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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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Straight Up News on Gay Plays

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Deep Blue Sea, Next Fall, Anne Nichols, Terence Rattigan, Theater, Daniel Talbott, Tennessee Williams, Abie's Irish Rose, Geoffrey Nauffts, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Contemporary Theater, Edward Albee, Emlyn Williams, Paul Rudnick, Thornton Wilder, William Shakespeare, Jeffrey, Slipping, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Two plays opened recently in Manhattan in which gay love affairs are observed with keen and perceptive eyes and ears -- Geoffrey Nauffts's Next Fall and Daniel Talbott's Slipping.

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