Q: When and where did Our Town open?
A: Our Town opened on January 22, 1938 at the McCarter Theater, Princeton, New Jersey. The play was produced and directed by Jed Harris. Our Town is the featured work in our upcoming newsletter, where you can find a letter detailing Wilder's own reaction to the performance (he had a running discussion with Harris about lights) and a negative review featured in Variety. Wilder was immediately optimistic; Variety was not. The play moved to New York, where it opened at the Henry Miller Theater on February 4, 1938
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Professor Lincoln Konkle, our resident Wilder expert, is an Associate Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. He teaches courses in American drama and creative writing, as well as an undergraduate seminar on Thornton Wilder's drama and fiction. He has published articles and reviews on Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee and a number of American writers. Currently he is working on a book showing the influence of American literary and cultural traditions, beginning in the seventeenth century, on Wilder's drama and fiction.
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