Theater Talk: Thornton Wilder's "Our Town"

Episode devoted to Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," one of the most frequently performed plays in the world. Guests include Wilder nephew and expert, Tappan Wilder; writer Jeremy McCarter of "Newsweek" and David Cromer, director of the 2009 revival.
Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins.
The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week's show. (Of course, Theater Talk is no stranger to CUNY TV, since the show is taped here each week before its first airing on Thirteen/WNET.)
The series is produced by Theater Talk Productions, a not-for-profit corporation and is funded by contributions from private foundations and individuals, as well as The New York State Council on the Arts.
Watch more at www.tv.cuny.edu/series/theater...

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To add another Thornton Wilder endeavor if you're interested, he wrote the screenplay to Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" which was Hitchcock's own favorite of his movies. Great suspense film, with a small town setting, with Joseph Cotton and Teresa Wright

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Yes, the choir loft!

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Our town is true theater

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Our Town you know what life is like.

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Now a staggering 1,715,000,000 for Gangnam Style, and only a couple of thousand more for Thornton Wilder, but that's part of life too...

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Gangnam Style 49,484,668
Thornton Wilder 2,601

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There's so much more to this play; if the older film with William Holden isn't doing it for anyone, there's another one (cited below) with Paul Newman: ua-cam.com/video/5pBZGi5fa9E/v-deo.html
And then there is the beautiful music written for it:
ua-cam.com/video/obwF-mhW8MM/v-deo.html

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While I love Paul Newman, I find he is distracting in this role - because he is Paul Newman. I think the two best productions (and the Thornton Wilder Society agrees with me) are: The 1977 production with Hal Holbrook, and the 1988 production was Spalding Gray, both available on UA-cam.

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Two words Star Wars 😂

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MichaelDean Marbach paul Newman our town

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@@laurietyree7221 So glad you say this: ua-cam.com/video/5pBZGi5fa9E/v-deo.html