![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It does so economically - with 10 actors instead of the usual 23, and with a twist - casting a female actor as the Stage Manager, a historically male role. Theatrical Outfit makes an inspiring choice in opening its 43rd season with this certifiable American classic. That’s what makes Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 masterpiece so elusive, so eloquent and, ultimately, so moving. Our Town is nothing less than the eternal story of humanity, something that, in eons of existence, we’ve never really quite put our fingers on. “This is the way we were,” the Stage Manager (Mary Lynn Owen) tells us early on, “in our growing-up, in our marrying, in our doctoring, in our living and in our dying.” Mary Lynn Owen, quietly, certifiably in charge as the Stage Manager You can feel it in the electricity that dances through the hall as the performance moves toward its curtain call. You can see it in the way the actors carry themselves. ![]()
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