Category: Our Town

Theater Review: ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’

NEW YORK—I was jotting down some notes between acts one and two of the Broadway revival of “The Skin of Our Teeth” when a woman asked what I was doing. When I explained I was a theater critic, she looked me in the eye and asked, “Can you explain the play to me?” Explaining Thornton Wilder’s…


Some Lessons From Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’

Around the age of 55, I discovered I could no longer trust myself to read certain poems to my students without the risk of tears. I don’t recollect what poem I was reading aloud to the class on that day of revelation. What I knew at the time was that my voice was cracking and…