‘Our Town’ review: Bland Broadway revival starring Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes doesn’t hit home
2 / 10
So, why, if it is Our town, is director Kenny Leon’s staging of “Our Town” among the most uninvolving and anemic I have ever seen?
2 / 10
So, why, if it is Our town, is director Kenny Leon’s staging of “Our Town” among the most uninvolving and anemic I have ever seen?
7 / 10
Leon’s staging is lovely, but I found myself craving a daring challenge to the idea of convention rather than simply an inclusive version of it. Why should the picture of a “typical American life” remain so narrow? Why stuff it with more types of people rather than pull it apart? That’s a job for other storytellers — whose repudiation of norms will hopefully become the new one.
| 1938 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1944 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1969 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1988 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2002 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2009 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway Revival Off-Broadway |
| 2017 | Regional (US) |
Benefit Reading Production Regional (US) |
| 2019 | West End |
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre London Revival West End |
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design of a Pla | Dede Ayite |
| 2025 | Drama League Awards | DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE | Ephraim Sykes |