"Act I:Â No curtain. No scenery. The audience, arriving, sees an empty stage in half-light." Thornton Wilder (Photo: New York Public Library) Audiences accustomed to the realism of Clifford Odetts or the spectacle of the Ziegfeld Follies were baffled by the blank canvas Thornton Wilder made of Our Town, a play about life, death and everything in between in the anywhereville of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PM on October 7, 2024