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Monday, December 23, 2024
Every year, there are huge hits, big flops, news makers and fan favorites, scandals and groundbreaking ideas in the theater scene. And when we pause to review the year just ending, we always think of things tha…
Friday, December 20, 2024
2024 in Review: Our Favorite Design Elements (6 Categories + 2 Special Citations) We were fortunate enough to see 23 different productions in 2024: 20 Broadway, 2 off-Broadway, and 1 regional; these are the sh…
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
2024 in Review: Our Favorite Writing & Direction (6 Categories) We were fortunate enough to see 23 different productions in 2024: 20 Broadway, 2 off-Broadway, and 1 regional; these are the shows we consid…
Monday, December 16, 2024
As the newest New York production of Our Town proves -- yet again over its 86 years –this acclaimed work is a reliable property whether it’s being done by this Broadway cast led by Jim Parsons or by your ki…
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Backstage at the Broadway play, they’re frying up the aroma of breakfast — part of a long tradition of adding scents to plays and movies.
Monday, December 9, 2024
"Let’s keep spreading awareness and opening doors for accessibility so that Deaf and hearing audiences can share the same experiences."—John McGinty, Our Town on Broadway.
Zoey Deutch recently visited Good Morning America to discuss the new production of Our Town. On the show, her co-star Katie Holmes surprised her with a special video asking her about her experience with the pla…
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Julie Halston, who plays Grover’s Corners' delightfully gossipy Mrs. Soames in the current Broadway revival of Our Town, welcomed The Broadway Show behind the scenes of the production. Featured on the tour: …
Welcome to Grover’s Corners! Join Julie Halston for a backstage tour at OUR TOWN.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
It's a week of Broadway classics and long-running favorites on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal! See what's in store on the latest episode. See Audra McDonald, Broadway's latest legendary Momma Rose, ta…
The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…
Don't miss our Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale! Click HERE. It ends today!! My most recent theater excursion to the Big Apple ended up being a solo trip at the last minute. While it wasn't the first time I've …
Monday, December 2, 2024
Don't miss our Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale! Click HERE. It ends today!! The leaves have fallen, and colder breezes are here. It has even snowed some places! I enjoy the winter months. As a theater-goer, t…
Sunday, December 1, 2024
“Our Town” by Thorton Wilder is recognized as a classic, and the revival now playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, directed by Kenny Leon is the perfect example of why it has achieved that sta…
Friday, November 29, 2024
Katie Holmes visited The Tonight Show to discuss the new production of Our Town, which is currently running at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. On the show, she shared some of her pre-show rituals that help her get…
Saturday, November 23, 2024
No Bazinga here: A reunion of The Big Bang Theory cast was in store as Kaley Cuoco recently visited former co-star Jim Parsons on Broadway. In a sweet Instagram Story shared earlier today, the Based on a True S…
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
On Saturday, November 16th, the cast of the Paramount+ upcoming series “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” took in a performance of Our Town together at the Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. See photos!
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Zoey Deutch visited TODAY with Hoda and Jenna to discuss the new production of Thornton Wilder's Out Town, which is currently playing at the Barrymore Theatre. Watch the interview now!
A guide to every show on Broadway, including new musicals, Tony winning-dramas, quirky hits and veterans like “Hamilton” and “Chicago.”
Friday, November 15, 2024
Dive into the art of direction with Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon (Purlie Victorious, Our Town)! Join us as Kenny shares his creative process and mentors emerging directors in this exclusive Master Cla…
TDF will host an autism-friendly performance of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in January, tailored for families with members on the autism spectrum or with other developmental or cognitive disabilities.
Review of the Saturday, November 9, 2024 matinee performance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City. Starring Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Richard Thomas, …
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Dive into the art of direction with Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon (Purlie Victorious, Our Town)! Join us as Kenny shares his creative process and mentors emerging directors in this exclusive Master Cla…
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met today, for the first time this season, to confirm the eligibility status of 11 Broadway productions for the 2024-25 season. The productions discussed were: Home; Oh,…
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
In a new interview, Jim Parsons admitted that he hadn't seen or read Our Town before he became involved with the production which is currently playing at Barrymore Theatre. Watch Parsons discuss his experience …
Friday, November 1, 2024
5 Favorite Classic Plays If this was called the Friday 6, Our Town would have made today's list. After purchasing tickets to this season's revival, I got to thinking about older plays that I love. I'm not tal…
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Tony Award winner Andrew Burnap, Kimber Elayne Sprawl and more will join Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in Broadway’s Othello. Directed by Kenny Leon, the production begins performances at the Barrym…
EXCLUSIVE: The Broadway revival of Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal has added to the cast with Andrew Burnap (The Inheritance, Disney’s upcoming live-action Snow White), Anthony Michael …
Monday, October 28, 2024
U.S. service members will have the opportunity to attend the play in November.
The current Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, directed by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon, is launching a partnership with TDF’s Veterans Theatregoing Program. Learn more!
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Wilder’s experimental play uses no scenery except for two tables, some chairs, a piano and usually two ladders for the upstairs bedroom windows of the young people. Here, however, Leon and set designer Beowul…
Friday, October 25, 2024
By: Paulanne Simmons October 27, 2024: At the very beginning of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town, the Stage Manager, who narrates, tells us, “The name of the town is Grover’s Corners, New Hampshi…
By: Samuel L. Leiter October 25, 2024: The minute I walked in the door at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to see director Kenny Leon’s much-lauded revival of Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938 classic, Our Town, …
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Thornton Wilder won a Pulitzer Prize for “Our Town” in 1938, it was one of his three Pulitzers. It went on to become a staple of American theater, but sometimes we forget its powerful gut punch. It’s impo…
Everything That Would Be Copy for Nora Ephron Nowadays by Elyse Sommer Nora Ephron and her three sisters were raised by parents who were successful screenwriters. All became writers, but it was Nora who most …
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
We grow up, seek partners and then we die. That’s the storyline of “Thornton Wilder’s Our Town”. There’s very little cutesy and kitschy about the play which begins in 1901 in Grover’s Corners, New H…
Monday, October 21, 2024
BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet for the opening night of Our Town, starring Katie Holmes, Jim Parsons and more! See what the cast members had to say about the opening of the show, and learn more about the p…
Friday, October 18, 2024
The show: ”Our Town” by Thornton Wilder at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre. What makes it special?: The production stars Jim Parsons, best known for his TV role in the popular “The Big Bang Theory.” Bu…
By: Isa Goldberg October 18, 2024: In Thoreau and Emerson lie the roots of theater in America. So, it is blissfully discovered in Kenny Leon’s contemporary staging of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. By beg…
By: Carol Rocamora October 17, 2024: Kenny Leon’s extraordinary Our Town is more than just a revival – it’s a momentous event, one that unites us all in these contentious times. Thornton Wilder’ s…
Faster than a speeding bullet! No, we’re not talking about a revival of that Superman musical. Instead, let’s first talk aboutthe rapid pace that...Continue Reading The post OUR TOWN IS A VERY, VERY NIC…
5 Favorite Designs by Beowulf Boritt Six-time Tony nominee and two-time winner, Beowulf Boritt burst on to the Broadway scene in 2005 with his scenic design for The 25th Annual Putnam County County Spelling B…
Thursday, October 17, 2024
What most surprised me about director Kenny Leon’s production of “Out Town” were not his distinctive touches. What most surprised me is how emotionally I reacted to this “Our Town” – not just th…
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Kenny Leon lands his 28 member multiracial cast down in a version of Grover’s Corners that is futuristic in its inclusiveness; a world that is a wish, where interracial romance is de rigueur and every citizen…
Kenny Leon's subtly reimagined revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town opened on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre on October 10. The cast is led by Jim Parsons, who conducts the small-town proceedings as the S…
Hit the opening night red carpet with Katie Holmes, Jim Parsons, director Kenny Leon and the cast of OUR TOWN. Get tickets to OUR TOWN: https://www.broadway.com/shows/our-town-2024/
This week, The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal celebrates some of Broadway's newest arrivals while looking back on a few of last season's highlights. Our Town, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning Ame…
The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet for the opening night of Our Town, starring Katie Holmes, Jim Parsons and more! See what the cast members had to say about the opening of the show, and learn more about the p…
On Sunday, October 13, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett attended a production and met with the cast of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town at the Barrymore Theatre. See photos!
Age: 29 Hometown: Los Angeles, California Current Role: Zoey Deutch is making her Broadway debut as Emily Webb in Our Town, a revival of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, directed by Kenny…
Broadway Press Day takes listeners inside the press junkets for new productions on the Main Stem.
Monday, October 14, 2024
Zoey Deutch visited CBS Mornings to discuss making her Bradway debut in the new production of Thornton Wilder's Out Town, which is currently playing at the Barrymore Theatre. Watch the interview now!
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Sunday, October 13, 2024
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Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Our Town, The Hills of California, The Counter @ the Laura Pels Theatre, InunDATEd @ York Theatre Company, Mint Theater Company’s production of …
Saturday, October 12, 2024
OUR TOWN has a new look. Integrated. Dr. Gibbs and family are black. And fit in just as natural as the white folks next door. The Webbs. Color doesn’t matter as we all share the same emotions and prob…
Stars came out for the opening of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, directed by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon, on Thursday, October 10 at the Barrymore Theatre. Check out photos of Nina Dobrev, Shaun White, Kaitlyn…
Check out photos of Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, and more on the opening night red carpet of Our Town on Broadway. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets here.
Friday, October 11, 2024
Watch a new look at the Broadway revival of Our Town, starring Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, Julie Halston, Ephraim Sykes, and more. See more here: https://bway.world/pnn8b
Check out phots from the opening night curtain call of Our Town on Broadway, starring Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes and more. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.
Nice town, y’know what I mean? For the first time in nearly 25 years, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town is transporting Broadway audiences to the simple, quiet village of Grover’s Corners, with a production sta…
Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, directed by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon, opened on Thursday, October 10 at the Barrymore Theatre where the production is running for a strictly limited engagement. Get a first loo…
The fall season is underway, and our reviewers think these productions are worth knowing about, even if you’re not planning to see them.
Critics Review ‘Our Town’ Revival; All Lights to Dim for Creel, Smith, and Bailey; A New Sarah for City Center’s ‘Ragtime,’ Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcas…
The Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder‘s “Our Town” opened Oct. 10 to rave reviews. This imaginative restaging of this American classic by Tony-winning director Kenny Leon (“A Raisin in the Sun”) is …
Director Kenny Leon’s slightly modernized revival of the American paragon finds its divine core, but lacks connection.
The Thornton Wilder classic returns to Broadway, still brutal and avant-garde after 86 years.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Director Kenny Leon’s staging of “Our Town” is among the most uninvolving and anemic our critic has ever seen.
With so much turmoil in the world, it’s at least a little comforting that things haven’t changed much in Grover’s Corners, the place that gives Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938 report from Small…
By: David Sheward October 10, 2024: Kenny Leon’s starry revival of Thornton Wilder’s classic 1938 portrait of everyday life, Our Town, features a diverse, multiethnic cast, but doesn’t hit you over the…
The unendurable passage of time haunts both plays. The post The Past Is Always Present: ‘The Hills of California’ and ‘Our Town’ on Broadway appeared first on Slant Magazine.
It takes a great deal of work to make the ordinary enticing, but that’s precisely what director Kenny Leon does in his production of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning “Our Town.” Set in the…
Theatrely's Broadway review of Our Town by Thornton Wilder and directed by Kenny Leon starring Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, and more at the Barrymore Theatre in New York City.
★★★☆☆ Jim Parsons, Richard Thomas, Zoey Deutch and more in director Kenny Leon’s new production The post Our Town: Thornton Wilder’s Classic in Functional (but Less Than Gripping) Revival appeared…
★★★★☆ Parsons, Thomas, Holmes, Jones, Wilson, Deutch, Sykes head stand-out 28-member cast The post Our Town: Kenny Leon Smartly Repopulates Thornton Wilder for 2024 appeared first on New York Stage Re…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Picture the surprise gasp from the audience as the curtain rose on Our Town at its premiere in 1938. The sight of there being no scenery must have shocking since . . . Oh, …
Kenny Leon's production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town celebrates its opening night on Broadway tonight! The production marks the first major Broadway revival of the classic play in nearly 25 years. Read the …
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