Our Town Eyes Transfer to Circle in the Square

The off-Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town may be headed for Broadway, according to The New York Times. Producers Barry Weissler and Ken Davenport are reportedly separately in talks to transfer the show from its current home at the Barrow Street Theatre to Circle in the Square after The Norman Conquests ends its limited engagement.

The source for the Times story was Theodore Mann, co-founder of Circle in the Square, who said that Weissler has been in touch with him about moving Our Town uptown. Meanwhile another source told the paper that Davenport has been talking separately with the Our Town producers about transferring the show to the same venue.

“There is multiple interest in moving Our Town to Circle in the Square, but nothing is official yet,” Mann told the Times. “Talks are underway. We would love to have it here, either after Norman concludes its regularly scheduled run or after its extension ends, if it does get extended.”

The Broadway revival of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests, a trilogy of three plays featuring a six-person British cast, is currently scheduled to close on July 25. The production has received seven Tony nominations and multiple awards from critics’ groups.

Directed by and starring David Cromer as the Stage Manager, the off-Broadway production of Our Town opened at Barrow Street on February 26 and is being played in a stripped-down production with audiences sitting on three sides of the acting space, a configuration that would work well at Circle in the Square. Cromer is scheduled to begin rehearsals in mid-August to direct a Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs starring Laurie Metcalf.