Remember how much you’ve always liked Thorton Wilder’s Our Town, first performed in 1938? Were you aware that the inspiration for this play was the poetic masterpiece Spoon River Anthology, first published 100 years ago, decades before Our Town ever hit the stage? In this work, the ghostly voices of the departed in the cemetery […]
Find out more »Remember how much you’ve always liked Thorton Wilder’s Our Town, first performed in 1938? Were you aware that the inspiration for this play was the poetic masterpiece Spoon River Anthology, first published 100 years ago, decades before Our Town ever hit the stage? In this work, the ghostly voices of the departed in the cemetery […]
Find out more »Remember how much you’ve always liked Thorton Wilder’s Our Town, first performed in 1938? Were you aware that the inspiration for this play was the poetic masterpiece Spoon River Anthology, first published 100 years ago, decades before Our Town ever hit the stage? In this work, the ghostly voices of the departed in the cemetery […]
Find out more »Remember how much you’ve always liked Thorton Wilder’s Our Town, first performed in 1938? Were you aware that the inspiration for this play was the poetic masterpiece Spoon River Anthology, first published 100 years ago, decades before Our Town ever hit the stage? In this work, the ghostly voices of the departed in the cemetery […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.