Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
1938 first edition cover from the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division
Frank Craven as the Stage Manager in the original Broadway production of Our Town (1938)
Frank Craven, Martha Scott and John Craven in the original Broadway production of Our Town (1938)
Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager in the 1977 television adaptation.
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
Wilder in 1948
Wilder in his 1920 Yale College graduation photo
Frank Craven, Martha Scott, and John Craven in the original Broadway production of Our Town, published in 1938, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth in 1948