In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwrightâs definitive version of Our Town . This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting...
Welcome to a new collection of Thornton Wilder's last plays - a series of one-acts that were part of his extravagantly ambitious project to creat two one-act play cycles based on the Deadly Sins and the Ages of Man. Published for the first time in...
This collection of Wilderâs most famous one act plays includes, The Long Christmas Dinner , The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden , Pullman Car Hiawatha , Queens of France , Such Things Only Happen in Books , and Love and How to Cure...
In this provocative, sometimes chilling comedy, Wilder renders a child's-eye view of the grown-up world, as a father, a mother and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe in which the children pretend to be orphans. Startling truths...
The play tells the story of two young bucks who, having spent all their money by living too well, leave London and roam from town to town in search of love and fortune. In order to find a wealthy heiress for at least one of them, they pose as master and...
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a...
Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prizeâwinning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's...
Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is...
Conversations with Thornton Wilderedited by Jackson R. BryerKnown today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably Americaâs most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer...