Temple Theaters Presents American Classic OUR TOWN

Temple Theaters presents Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning drama Our Town, directed by Douglas C. Wager. Featuring Donna Snow as the Stage Manager, the production runs March 10-11 and 23-26 in the Tomlinson Theater. Considered one of the finest plays of the twentieth century, Our Town continues to move audiences of all ages.

Set in the fictional town of Grover's Corners at the beginning of the twentieth century, this metatheatrical drama follows the lives of the Gibbs and Webb families. Guided by the Stage Manager (Donna Snow), the audience watches children Emily Webb (Chelsea Aubert) and George Gibbs (Tyler Ivey) fall in love and grow to adulthood. Thornton Wilder's unsurpassed American masterpiece is a meditation on the eternal cycle of life, of love and of loss - and of the enduring hope of the human spirit.

Director Douglas C. Wager is Associate Dean of the School of Theater, Film and Media Arts. Formerly the Artistic Director of Arena Stage in Washington, DC, he has directed a number of plays, including his docudramas In Conflict, about Iraq War veterans, and Odd Girl Out, about relational aggression among teen girls. At Temple, he has also directed The Matchmaker, On the Razzle, The Liar and most recently John Guare's A Free Man of Color, among others.

The production features Head of Undergraduate Acting and Associate Professor Donna Snow in the role of the Stage Manager. An accomplished professional actress, Professor Snow has performed major roles Off-Broadway and regionally at such theaters as The Long Wharf, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory, ACT, The Walnut Street Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, San Jose Repertory, Syracuse Stage, Mauckingbird Theater Company and the Bagaduce Theater. She is supported by a cast of twenty talented undergraduate students led by junior Tyler Ivey and sophomore Chelsea Aubert.

The scenic design is by Professor Fred M. Duer (Temple Theaters' Marat/Sade, Brigadoon, Hair) and lighting design by Temple alumnus Shon Causer, who has worked regionally at Lantern Theatre Company, Inis Nua Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theatre and Delaware Theatre Company. Costume design by third year MFA candidate Ariel Wang (Temple Theaters' The Odyssey, Crumbs from the Table of Joy), with sound design by Daniel Ison (Temple Theaters' Marat/Sade, Crumbs from the Table of Joy) and music direction by Nathan Lofton.

Upcoming, Temple Theaters presents She Love Me: A Concert, April 14-16 at the historic Temple Performing Arts Center. The season closes with twin productions of Caryl Churchill's Love and Information, running April 19-30 in the Randall Theater.

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