num_pages: 103
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 In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.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: A Play in Three Acts
titlecomplete: Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
characters: Emily Webb, Three Baseball Players, Constable Warren, Professor Willard, Dr. Frank F. Gibbs, Sam Craig, Man in the Auditorium, Rebecca Gibbs, Mrs. Louella Soames, Si Crowell, Howie Newsome, Joe Stoddard, Mrs. Myrtle Webb, George Gibbs, Joe Crowell, Jr., Wally Webb, Mrs. Julia Gibbs, Stage Manager, Lady in the Box, Simon Stimson, Woman in the Balcony, Mr. Charles Webb
genres: Read For School, Literature, Theatre, Drama, High School, Fiction, Classics, School, Historical Fiction, Plays
ratings_count: 51945
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: HARPERCOLLINS @ PUBLISHERS