Academy Award nominee and stage vet Michael Shannon will assume the role of the Stage Manager in the hit off-Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, beginning February 23. He is set to replace Stephen Kunken, who will depart on February 19. Our Town enters its second year at the Barrow Street Theatre on February 17, directed by David ...

Age: “Slightly older than Emily.”

Hometown: Herington, Kansas

Currently: Entering her second year as feisty Emily Webb in the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Our Town.

Small-Town Girl: A military kid, Grace spent her high school years in a Kansas town much like Thornton Wilder’s fictional village. “The population is almost the same as Grover’s Corners, and the town ...

Jason Butler Harner will replace David Cromer in the central role of Stage Manager in Cromer’s staging of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. The Obie-winning actor will begin performances in the revival on August 25. Cromer is departing the company to begin rehearsals for the Broadway productions of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound.

Harner’s ...

David Cromer, the helmer behind off-Broadway’s acclaimed Our Town and Broadway’s forthcoming revivals of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, will bring his work to Lincoln Center Theater as well. The actor and director has been tapped to direct LCT's upcoming American premiere production of Andrew Bovell’s When the Rain Stops Falling. The ...

The off-Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town may be headed for Broadway, according to The New York Times. Producers Barry Weissler and Ken Davenport are reportedly separately in talks to transfer the show from its current home at the Barrow Street Theatre to Circle in the Square after The Norman Conquests ends its limited engagement.

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