Our Town Is More Than Ever: Thornton Wilder's Our Town at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, by Deborah Brown

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Will Rogers, Emma Rosenthal in Our Town at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

Our Town

by Thornton Wilder

Williamstown Theatre Festival
July 28 – August 8
Directed by Nicholas Martin

Scenic Design by David Korins
Costume Design by Gabriel Berry
Lighting Design by Kenneth Posner
Sound Design by Drew Levy

Cast:

Becky Ann Baker
Dylan Baker
Kevin Cahoon
Nancy E. Carroll
Sam Crane
Jeff Cuttler
Zackary Grady
Jessica Hecht
Brie Larson
Adam Lerman
Brian Lewis
Bryce Pinkham
Gayle Rankin
Will Rogers
Emma Rosenthal
Graham Rowat
John Rubinstein
Campbell Scott
Jon Patrick Walker

Thornton Wilder’s Our Town

 lives and breathes and gently enlarges how we see ourselves way beyond the confines of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire or small town America — thanks to the current production at the Williamstown Theater Festival directed by Nicholas Martin.  Martin has staged it exactly as it was written and first produced in 1938 at the McCarter Theater in Princeton and a month later on Broadway. The text is verbatim and the notes for no scenery — only wooden straight-backed chairs (quite an enormous number here hang off the backdrop), two round wooden tables and no props — are followed to a T.
Read the full review on the Berkshire Review for the Arts!

Michael Miller