Thornton Wilder’s play became a blockbuster musical, but a production under an upstate tent makes the case for its ...

“Thornton Wilder is my favorite writer,” said McCarter, “a restless innovator, an enviable stylist, a genius with an uncanny ability to see the cosmos and our tiny-but-enormous place in it.

Houston Matters How a playwright unearthed a lost Thornton Wilder play and brought it to the stage in Houston. Kirk Lynn talks about tracking down an unfinished work from the great playwright ...

Thornton Wilder has written 13 shows including The Trumpet Shall Sound (Playwright), The Merchant of Yonkers (Playwright), The Skin of Our Teeth (Playwright), The Matchmaker ...

The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder (Harper & Row; $6.95) Thornton Wilder's career is one of the oddest in American letters. After the publication of his first two novels in the twenties, he was ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Most great plays are about death, but Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” is the most likely American play of the 20th century to have you walking out of the theater determined to do ...

American writer and playwright Thornton Wilder is shown in March 1968. Credit: APIn the late writer's letters, drafts and notebooks, Lynn sometimes found references to an unproduced third play, ...

Launching A Noise Within’s 2024-25 “True Grit” season in Pasadena is “The Skin of Our Teeth,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder. The play is co-directed by Julia Rodriguez ...

While Thornton Wilder wrote many of the most revered novels in the American literary canon, Wilder only wrote two full-length plays: Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth. Both plays won Pulitzer Prizes.

With interest in Thornton Wilder surging, the estate guarding the author's works has named its first non-family Literary Executor in 28 years. Skip to main content. Open Mega Menu ...