Thornton Wilder

For Thornton Wilder fans, "The Big Meal" might also have been inspired by his earlier one-act play, "The Long Christmas Dinner," which followed a family through numerous generations sharing their Christmas meal.

Monmouth Film Festival selected "Shadow of a Doubt," being the only produced screenplay written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. Wilder's novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," is being adapted for the stage by Two River Theater, with shows beginning February 17.

At the same time, she could be terribly needy, requiring constant reassurance from both artistic collaborators such as Thornton Wilder and women with whom she became emotionally involved.

Scenes in which characters spoke directly to audiences would inspire more recent playwrights such as Thornton Wilder and Neil Simon, Roberts said.

She was also the first female composer to be invited to join the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1974, thirteen years after receiving an award from them for her three-act grand opera, The Akestiad, written on a libretto by Thornton Wilder).

In 1938, Thornton Wilder's play ''Our Town'' was performed publicly for the first time in Princeton, New Jersey.

Thornton Wilder's Our Town is at St Edburgha's Church from Thursday to Saturday at 7.30pm.

It is a mark of the strength and continuing relevance of this Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 play by Thornton Wilder that technologically-savvy young people in the 21st century can still be affected by its universal themes about what it means to be human.

He met the playwrite Thornton Wilder while at Yale through Wilder's nephew, who was resident faculty at the university, and today Greenwald is treasurer of the Thornton Wilder Society, an organization he helped found.

Questo articolo mette in luce l'importanza che la scoperta del teatro di Thornton Wilder ebbe nell'elaborazione vittoriniana di una poetica narrativa che, da Conversazione in poi, si lascio plasmare sempre di piu dalle riflessioni che lo scrittore siracusano andava conducendo sul contributo rivoluzionario che il teatro avrebbe apportato alla creazione di un linguaggio narrativo fortemente innovativo e alla diffusione di una nuova coscienza politica e culturale.

When Wilder, the younger sister of Thornton Wilder, came into the group in the 1930s (having met Scott at the writers' colony, Yaddo), she soon benefited from the feedback of the others and reciprocated with her own suggestions, especially to Scott.

The theater's marquee proclaims a run of Our Town, Thornton Wilder's depressing play about life in the fictional Grover's Corners.

In her latest effort, Niven sets her sights on playwright (Our Town) and novelist (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) Thornton Wilder.

Thornton Wilder's classic about love, life and death in one small New England town takes to Venice Theatre's Stage II, March 14-30.