Among the refreshing aspects of Penelope Niven’s new biography, “Thornton Wilder: A Life,” is its startling sexlessness, the paucity of the kind of dish that sometimes has seemed to drive the market ...

Tonight, it's been rumored for decades that Playwright Thornton Wilder based his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Our Town" in Peterborough. In fact, it was performed by The Peterborough Players in 1940 ...

Kirk Lynn talks about tracking down an unfinished work from the great playwright called “The Emporium,” which is making its world premiere at Houston’s Alley Theatre. There have only been two world ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. According to Mr. Wilder, the Managing Member of the Wilder Family LLC and Thornton ...

My family and I had the opportunity to see The American Theater Group’s production of Thornton Wilder’s classic play “Our Town,” and the experience surpassed my expectations, with a cast whose talent ...

Most great plays are about death, but Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” is the most likely of all American plays of the 20th Century to have you walk out of the theater determined to do things a little ...