num_pages: 143
description: Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play." In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.
language: English
title: Our Town
titlecomplete: Our Town
characters: Professor Willard, Simon Stimson, Si Crowell, Three Baseball Players, Mrs. Myrtle Webb, Joe Crowell, Jr., Joe Stoddard, Mrs. Julia Gibbs, Emily Webb, Stage Manager, Rebecca Gibbs, Constable Warren, George Gibbs, Woman in the Balcony, Sam Craig, Dr. Frank F. Gibbs, Mr. Charles Webb, Howie Newsome, Man in the Auditorium, Mrs. Louella Soames, Wally Webb, Lady in the Box
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, Plays, Read For School, High School, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 51915
places: New Hampshire, Grover's Corners, New Hampshire
awards: awardedAt: -1009814400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama, awardedAt: -1009814400000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Avon Books