Our Town Cast & Creative

Kenny Leon directs a new production of Thornton Wilder's classic play.

This production will begin in the fall of 2024.

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Show Overview

About Our Town

Our Town explores the relationship between two young Grover’s Corners neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. When Emily loses her life in childbirth, the circle of life portrayed in each of the three acts of Our Town–growing up, adulthood, and death–is fully realized. Wilder offers a couple of chairs on a bare stage as the backdrop for an exploration of the universal human experience. The simple story of a love affair is constantly rediscovered because it asks timeless questions about the meaning of love, life and death. In the final moments of the play, the recently deceased Emily is granted the opportunity to revisit one day in her life, only to discover that she never fully appreciated all she possessed until she lost it. “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you,” she says as she takes her place among the dead.

Creative

Written by
Thornton Wilder
Director
Kenny Leon
Set Designer
Beowulf Boritt
Costume Designer
Dede Ayite
Lighting Designer
Allen Lee Hughes
Sound Designer
Justin Ellington
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