The new production of the canonical American play, directed by Kenny Leon, sees the classic through through a contemporary lens.

With so much turmoil in the world, it’s at least a little comforting that things haven’t changed much in Grover’s Corners, the place that gives Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938 report from Smalltown USA, its name. People there are born, love and die without so much as looking up to savor what they have. That’s life.

One of director Kenny Leon’s distinctive gifts is his ability to take a canonical American play and make it feel like it was written about all Americans.

Thornton Wilder’s parable of small town America gets a starry but unfocused Broadway revival, featuring Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, and Richard Thomas.

The fifth Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's classic "Our Town" opened Thursday, and outside the Barrymore Theatre, the show's producers have very wisely posted rave blurbs about the play. What makes these very upbeat words different from the usual huzzahs delivered by critics is that they come from two famous playwrights.

The first act of “Our Town” takes place in Grover’s Corners on May 7, 1901. Nothing much happens in the fictional New Hampshire village that day, except that two local teenagers, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, fall in love completely unaware that they do so under the shadow of the granitic pillars of time.

Kenny Leon's production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town celebrates its opening night on Broadway tonight! The production marks the first major Broadway revival of the classic play in nearly 25 years. Read the reviews!

Jim Parsons gives standout performance in predictable story. Even before Parsons speaks his first bout of meta-dialogue, it’s clear that the entiret