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'Our Town' shines with wit, intelligence, casting.(Time Out!)(On theater)

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From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Date: 20050304
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Byline: Jack Helbig

Today Thornton Wilder's 1938 play "Our Town" is something of a chestnut in American theater. But there was a time when the play was considered daring and even a little experimental. Instead of telling a single story, like most plays of the time, Wilder borrows a page from Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," and presents a series of scenes of daily life in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire.

What makes this play especially remarkable is how fresh it seems after nearly 70 years, especially when it is done well, as it is in the production currently ...

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