The cast of OUR TOWN , Daniel Rader I didn't know it was possible to make so many terrible decisions about this beautiful piece. OUR TOWN is widely considered not just one of the greatest American plays, but one of the greatest plays ever written. Experimental for its time, Thornton Wilder's piece, written in 1938, uses an all but bare stage and mimed action to examine the very nature of human existence. Divided into three "acts" (in practical terms the show is an hour and a half with no intermission... these "act" breaks do not denote actual breaks...) "Daily Life", "Love and Marriage" and "Death and Eternity", a Stage Manager takes us through the everyday lives o...