Our Town – Thornton Wilder

General Resources:

• The official website of the Thornton Wilder family

• The Thornton Wilder Society

Media:

PODCASTS

• "'Our Town' — The Greatest American Play?" from The Short Fuse Podcast

• "S1E3: Our Town by Thornton Wilder" from Second Stage Podcast

• "Thornton Wilder's Our Town" from We Speak Volumes: A Bards Alley Bookshop Podcast

VIDEOS

• “'Our Town' for Our Time" from LIbrary of America

• "Shakespeare Hour Live Episode 51: OUR TOWN" from ShakespeareInDC

• "Theater Talk: Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town'" from CUNY TV

• "Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes and Kenny Leon on Broadway’s 'Our Town'" from Amanpour and Company

Online Articles:

• • "The birth and life of an American classic: ‘Our Town’" by Bud Kliment for The Pulitzer Prizes

  • "The great message of ‘Our Town’: Nostalgia and regret come with age. So do grace and compassion." by Valerie Schultz for America Magazine

  • "Is Our Town everybody’s town?" by Thomas G. Long for The Christian Century

  • "Looking Back on Our Town" by Annie Graves for NewEngland.com

  • "Thornton Wilder's Our Town is America's answer to Shakespeare" by Howard Sherman for The Guardian

  • "The Utterly Civilized Wilder: A writer of his time—and ours" by Jonathan Leaf for Humanities

  • "Why ‘Our Town’ Springs Eternal, but Especially Now" by Howard Sherman for American Theater

Critical Articles:

• • "In Our Living and in Our Dying" - Arthur H. Ballet

  • "Teaching Our Town in Our Town" - Jennifer A. Haberling and Brian White

  • "Whose Town Is It, Anyway? A Reconsideration of Thornton Wilder's Our Town" - Bert Cardullo

  • "Witnessing the Trauma of Our Town" - Robert Vork