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What the popular press said...

CHARLES ISHERWOOD for NEW YORK TIMES says, "Modest but highly rewarding production,"

JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ for NEW YORK DAILY NEWS says, "Riveting new production."

FRANK SCHECK for NEW YORK POST says, "Wonderful production."

JOHN SIMON for BLOOMBERG says, "Cromer’s version ...strikes me as a mindless demolition job."

ADAM R.PERLMAN for BACK STAGE says, "I didn't feel like I was watching American life, but a foreign concept of it. The play may still be called Our Town, but it feels far from it."

MICHAEL KUCHWARA for ASSOCIATED PRESS says, "Astonishingly reinvented by director David Cromer in an intimate yet unsentimental production that resonates with a clarity that breathes new life into one of the 20th century's great American plays."

MARILYN STASIO for VARIETY says, "The avoidance of sentimentality is admirable, but the almost complete lack of emotion in this performance style is so extreme it amounts to anti-sentiment."


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Production Details
Venue: Barrow Street Theatre
Genre: Drama
Previewed: 17 Feb 2009
Opened: 26 Feb 2009
Closed: 26 Feb 2009
Written: by Thornton Wilder
Directed: David Cromer
Synopsis: Charts the range of human experience in a tale of two families in small-town Grover's Corners, NH, 'just across the Massachusetts line,' between 1901-13.
Closing Cast: Elizabeth Audley (Mrs. Soames), Jeremy Beiler (Simon Stimson), Robert Beitzel (Howie Newsome), Kati Brazda (Mrs. Webb), Will Brill (Joe Crowell, Jr), David Cromer (Stage Manager), Nathan Dame (Sam Craig), Roger E. DeWitt (Joe Stoddard), Ann Dowd (Mrs. Gibbs), Emma Galvin (Rebecca Gibbs), Jennifer Grace (Emily Webb), Mark Hattan (Constable Warren), Jake Horowitz (Wally Webb), David Manis (Mr. Webb), Scott Parkinson (Professor Willard), James McMenamin (George Gibbs), Jeff Still (Doc Gibbs), Jason Yachanin (Si Crowell), with Dana Jacks, Lynn Laurence, Kathleen Peirce, Keith Perry and Mark Shock.

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