In an age obsessed with the unusual and the bizarre, the neurotic and the psychotic, Wilder turns his attention to the attributes and universality of the ordinary citizen. Deceptively simple in structure and tone, the play represents many of the author's humanistic views. Our Town pays tribute to traditional American hometown values. Our Town remains a perennial favorite among directors, particularly in small-town productions. First produced at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, on January 22, 1938, the play wavered in Boston, was moved to New York, and, to the surprise of both the playwright and his collaborators, won a Pulitzer Prize as the best play of the season. Translated and produced throughout the world, it has been called a poetic chronicle of life and death. Thornton Niven Wilder's Our Town is a major work in the canon of American theater.
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