Shoppers' delight -- art, crafts, ski equipment Nov 14, 2009
Stage III Community Theatre will hold auditions for "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder; directed by Dob Wallace, on Sunday and Monday, 7 p.m. each night at Stage III, 900 N. Center St.. Small town life is a portrait of the human condition, from childhood to grave. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Where Wilder's short things are Oct 20, 2009
The sensational revival of "Our Town" may well have whetted our appetite for Thornton Wilder ... The sensational revival of "Our Town" may well have whetted our appetite for Thornton Wilder. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
For the record Oct 7, 2009
Correction: Because of a reporting error, A Reading Life, a column in the Sunday Books section, gave the incorrect title for a Library of America volume of Thornton Wilder s works. The correct title is The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948. (Boston Globe)
‘Thornton Wilder’ and ‘Man Nobody Knows’ harken to days of counter-cultural Catholicism Oct 4, 2009
Thornton Wilder and Man Nobody Knows harken to days of counter-cultural Catholicism - The Boston Globe ... In this respect, the Library of America s just-published second volume of Thornton Wilder s works, Thornton Wilder: The Bridge Over San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948, ($35) could not have entered the house at a more opportune moment, for it includes Heaven s My Destination. (Boston Globe)
• 'The Skin of Our Teeth' provokes laughter, contemplation Sep 18, 2009
The theater's 2009-2010 season opener was written by Thornton Wilder over 60 years ago, but it focuses on the cycles of human existence by exploring themes that will never become outdated. The play follows the Antrobus family through trials, floods, lust and war from the time of the alphabet's invention to the end of World War II. But despite immeasurable pain and hardship, Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus and their children, Henry and Gladys, make up a charming quartet that seems to possess the same... (Juneau Empire)
• Season 31 Sep 10, 2009
Playwright Clifford Odets was first considered, but when none of his plays seemed to fit, his contemporary, Thornton Wilder, was brought in. Wilder is most famous for his 1938 play "Our Town," for which he won the Pulitzer prize for drama, but he also won the prestigious award two other times, for "Skin" and for his novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey.". (Juneau Empire)
Israel Horovitz keeps coming back to Gloucester Aug 28, 2009
It was actually Thornton Wilder who told me that. The combination of course of having the theater and having Gloucester people show up and comment and react. (Boston Globe)
Daily guide to television and radio Aug 13, 2009
Thornton Wilder s tale of a Yale student in 1920s Newport. Anthony Edwards. (Boston Globe)
Bleakness clouds ‘What Is the Cause of Thunder’ Jul 29, 2009
There are additional echoes of Christopher Durang, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, even Thornton Wilder, but Haidle isn t able to push past his influences into original territory. Faced with a play that stubbornly refuses to connect, the audience can at least take pleasure in the production. (Boston Globe)
Shadow of a Doubt meets "The Killer... Jul 16, 2009
Impressed with the Pulitzer-Prize winning dramatic play Our Town's genuine depiction of small-town life, the director called upon its writer Thornton Wilder. Hitchcock explained the story of the murderous uncle who returns home to hide upon a highly-publiced wave of killing widows across the country. (Suite101.com)
The First Ever Theater Blogger Awards Were Given to Top Shows on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway May 30, 2009
Written by Thornton Wilder Directed by David Cromer Produced by Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian, Tom Wirtshafter, Ted Snowdon, Eagle Productions, Dena Hammerstein/Pam Pariseau, The Weinstein Company, Burnt Umber Productions. BEST OFF-OFF BROADWAY PLAY Universal Robots. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Find inner references when job hunting May 17, 2009
Famous people and the rest of us -- are "broken in the wheels of living." That's the phrase Thornton Wilder used to describe the human condition. 1. (Albany Times Union)
Neighborhoods: Word on the street May 7, 2009
Inspired by the Longfellow Neighborhood Council Oral History Project now almost complete, the MCNA is hosting a presentation of Mid-Cambridge s history in the spirit of Thornton Wilder s classic play Our Town that will highlight the richness and vitality of our community. North Cambridge. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Neighbors bound by tragedy - Missoula author Wendy Parciak’s first novel examines how a girl’s mental illness affects 'any street’ Mar 28, 2009
Requiem for Locusts opens like Thornton Wilder s Our Town, with a narrator introducing a neighborhood: Consider a street, any street, in a neighborhood. Place this neighborhood in any town in any country in the world, or, for accuracy, place it in an affluent one, where the ties that bind people together have loosened and often broken apart. (Missoulian, MT)
"Hello Dolly!" Auditions are Sunday Feb 19, 2009
The story is based upon Thornton Wilder s book and play, The Matchmaker and follows the scheming matchinations of the title character, Dolly Levi, who arranges suitable marriages for others, and finds the perfect match for herself as well. As a Broadway production, headliners have been a number of stars including Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey and Ginger Rogers. (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, NC)
