Grover’s Corners, according to author Thornton Wilder, represents everyone’s “home town.” In Thursday night’s performance of “Our Town’” by the Eastman School of Music Opera Theatre, the lighting took on a special significance for scene placement as images from Rochester’s past were projected on the back wall of the bleak staging of chairs and ladders. […]
Our Town
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Theater Review: “Our Suburb” at JCC CenterStage
In “Our Suburb,” a new play on stage through March 29 at JCC CenterStage, Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner, “Our Town,” is repurposed for a new generation. Originally set in a fictional New Hampshire town in the early 1900’s, Wilder’s classic dissected family cyclicality and the fragility of life: teenagers growing up, getting married, […]
