Showtime's 'Our Town': Newman's Own by Tom Shales
The play was filmed on a stage -- the stage of the Booth Theatre in New York -- but without an audience. What you get may be good theater, but it is not particularly good television; the theatrical devices have not been translated into cinematic or video devices. And so the film, premiering at 8 tonight, never gets us as close to the play as it could. It doesn't even get us very close to the actors, since a lot of it…