num_pages: 121
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 In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.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: Lady in the Box, Sam Craig, Mrs. Myrtle Webb, Joe Stoddard, Woman in the Balcony, George Gibbs, Man in the Auditorium, Rebecca Gibbs, Stage Manager, Mr. Charles Webb, Constable Warren, Emily Webb, Simon Stimson, Mrs. Julia Gibbs, Dr. Frank F. Gibbs, Mrs. Louella Soames, Professor Willard, Howie Newsome, Three Baseball Players, Wally Webb, Si Crowell, Joe Crowell, Jr.
genres: Literature, Classics, School, Drama, Plays, High School, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Read For School, Theatre
ratings_count: 51920
places: Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, New Hampshire
awards: awardedAt: -1009814400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama, awardedAt: -1009814400000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: HarpPerenM