The Matchmaker is a 1954 Broadway play by Thornton Wilder, a rewritten version of his 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers.
The Matchmaker theatrical set drawing by Bernard Gray
Theatre decor of ACT 2
A production of The Matchmaker at the Thwaits Empire Theatre, in Blackburn, England
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