Our Town (play)

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play theatrical work

Our Town (play) is a 1938 three-act drama by Thornton Wilder that portrays the everyday lives and profound themes of love, mortality, and community in the fictional small town of Grover’s Corners.

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All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Our Town 4
NBC television production Our Town (1955) 1
Our Town (1955 television production) 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf play ⓘ
theatrical work ⓘ
author Thornton Wilder NERFINISHED ⓘ
awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ
awardYear 1938 ⓘ
broadwayPremiereDate 1938-02-04 ⓘ
broadwayPremierePlace Henry Miller’s Theatre, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
fictionalTownBasedIn New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstPerformanceDate 1938-01-22 ⓘ
firstPerformancePlace McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstPublisher Coward-McCann NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre drama ⓘ
metatheatre ⓘ
hasAdaptation Our Town (1940 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Our Town (opera) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Our Town (television adaptations) NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart Act I: Daily Life NERFINISHED ⓘ
Act II: Love and Marriage NERFINISHED ⓘ
Act III: Death and Eternity NERFINISHED ⓘ
isFrequentlyStudiedIn American colleges ⓘ
American high schools ⓘ
mainCharacter Dr. Gibbs NERFINISHED ⓘ
Emily Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ
George Gibbs NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mr. Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mrs. Gibbs NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mrs. Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ
Stage Manager NERFINISHED ⓘ
narrativeDevice Stage Manager as narrator ⓘ
numberOfActs 3 ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
partOf American theatrical canon ⓘ
publicationYear 1938 ⓘ
setting Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ
settingTime 1901–1913 ⓘ
stylisticFeature breaking the fourth wall ⓘ
minimal scenery ⓘ
pantomimed props ⓘ
theme appreciation of ordinary moments ⓘ
community ⓘ
everyday life ⓘ
family ⓘ
love ⓘ
marriage ⓘ
mortality ⓘ
the passage of time ⓘ
timeSpanCoveredInPlot 12 years ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

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Our Town → basedOn → Our Town (play) ⓘ
Minetta Lane Theatre → hostedProduction → Our Town (play) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Our Town
George Antrobus → relatedWork → Our Town (play) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Our Town
Love and Marriage → televisionDebutContext → Our Town (play) ⓘ
this entity surface form: NBC television production Our Town (1955)
Henry Antrobus → relatedWork → Our Town (play) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Our Town
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hamden, Connecticut, United States → notableWork → Our Town (play) ⓘ
subject surface form: Thornton Wilder
this entity surface form: Our Town
David Cromer → notableWork → Our Town (play) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Our Town (Off-Broadway production)
David Cromer → notableWork → Our Town (play) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre production)
David Cromer → notableRole → Our Town (play) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Stage Manager in Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre)
"Love and Marriage" → originallyWrittenFor → Our Town (play) ⓘ
subject surface form: Love and Marriage
this entity surface form: Our Town (1955 television production)