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"Jim Parsons is perfectly cast. He charms!"

Variety

Aramide Tinubu

"Kenny Leon’s specialty is invigorating classic texts with fresh electricity, and he does beautiful and evocative work on Our Town."

The Washington Post

Naveen Kumar

"Our Town just might be Thornton Wilder’s greatest contribution to American drama, a case Kenny Leon’s production makes with conviction."

Deadline

Greg Evans

"An Our Town for all of us."

The New York Times

Jesse Green

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4.6

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not what I hoped for a classic

"Besides Jim Parsons, the rest of the cast was barely audible. You could not understand hardly any of the dialogue. When a play is a drama with no music or set changes and/or action, this becomes a monotony of sounds. The play just dragged and my significant other fell asleep. I am not sure that it would have happened if you could understand what they were saying. To be honest, on top of all that, I am not sure that hearing all the dialogue would have improved it much. Finally, I saw " A long day's Journey into Night " last year. Again, it was a drama with no music or real action but it was fantastic."

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george n from Cockeysville on Jan 13, 2025

About Our Town

Our Town, the timeless drama of life in the village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, has become an American classic with universal appeal. Thornton Wilder’s most frequently performed play, Our Town appeared on Broadway in 1938 to wide acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize. This production will be the first major Broadway revival of the play in nearly 25 years.

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