Take a Trip Back to Our Town

It’s time to reserve a mattress-and-breakfast, go to the regional pub, choose a hike, and maybe even go to a smaller, community bookshop. That’s correct, we’re heading back again to Grover’s Corners. A new creation of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Our City is heading for Broadway in October 2024, a.k.a. the excellent period for this meditation on cozy little-town existence and also dying. The cast, introduced April 3, consists of Jim Parsons, fresh off Mother Play, as the stage supervisor. The Webbs will be played by Katie Holmes as Mrs. Webb, Zoey Deutch as Emily Webb, and Richard Thomas as Mr. Webb. Sure, the solid list “Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, and Katie Holmes” appears like an ABC comedy pilot, but, this October, they’re accomplishing a fragile, heartbreaking perform.

The Gibbses are designed up of Billy Eugene Jones as Dr. Gibbs, Ephraim Sykes as George Gibbs, and Michelle Wilson as Mrs. Gibbs. Mrs. Soames will be performed by Julie Halston, though Donald Webber Jr. is using on Simon Stimpson.

The production will be directed by the ever-prolific Kenny Leon, whose observe-up, Othello with Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington, has now been announced. “Thornton Wilder’s Our Town — in my thoughts stands at the major of the Mount Rushmore of great American Theatre,” Leon mentioned in a assertion. “I sense blessed and lucky to have attained the rely on of the Wilder estate to existing this classic to a further technology of theatre fans. It is extended been a burning want to collaborate on a Broadway production of such magnitude that speaks so fantastically and intimately to all individuals about our shared time on the earth.” This production spells a death knell for the formerly declared, Dustin Hoffman–starring creation of the demonstrate that was declared in July 2020, with Bartlett Sher connected to immediate. Our Town will begin previews September 17 at the Barrymore Theatre and opens on Oct 10. That offers you extra than adequate time to visit a modest New England city in excess of the summer months.

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