‘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?
8 / 10
And though some of the effectiveness of the revival is clearly the result of Kenny Leon’s swift and unsentimental direction, and of a fine cast led by the mercilessly acute Jim Parsons as the Stage Manager, we must begin with wonder and admiration for the play itself. In its portrait of “the life of a village against the life of the stars,” as Wilder described it, the monumental is always expressed in the miniature, and the miniature is always crushed by the monument.
| 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 |