Our Town, the Glossary

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1. 132 relations: Aaron Copland, American Repertory Ballet, American Sign Language, Ancestry.com, Ann Patchett, Appendix (anatomy), Barrow Street Theatre, Berlin, Booth Theatre, Boston, Broadway theatre, Buffalo, New York, Chicago Tribune, Compton, California, David Cromer, Deaf West Theatre, Dogville, Dorothy McGuire, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival, Ed Begley, Edward Albee, Elizabeth Hartman, Ephraim Sykes, Eric Stoltz, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Eva Marie Saint, Fourth wall, France, Frances Conroy, Frank Sinatra, Gateway Theatre (Edinburgh), Glynnis O'Connor, Hal Holbrook, Harvey Evans, Helen Hunt, Henry Fonda, Homework, Ice cream float, IMDb, Jane Curtin, Jason Butler Harner, Jayne Atkinson, Jed Harris, Jim Parsons, Jimmy Van Heusen, John Craven (actor), Julie Halston, Katie Holmes, Kenny Leon, Lincoln Center, ... Expand index (82 more) »

2. 1938 plays
3. Coward-McCann books
4. Fiction set in 1901
5. Fiction set in 1904
6. Fiction set in 1913
7. Plays by Thornton Wilder
8. Plays set in New Hampshire
9. Plays set in the 1900s
10. Plays set in the 1910s

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist and later a conductor of his own and other American music.

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American Repertory Ballet

The American Repertory Ballet (ARB) is an American ballet company based in New Jersey.

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American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author.

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Appendix (anatomy)

The appendix (appendices or appendixes; also vermiform appendix; cecal (or caecal, cæcal) appendix; vermix; or vermiform process) is a finger-like, blind-ended tube connected to the cecum, from which it develops in the embryo.

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Barrow Street Theatre

Barrow Street Theatre is the name of both a 199-seat Off-Broadway theatre located in New York City's historic Greenwich House at 27 Barrow Street and a production company of the same name.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Booth Theatre

The Booth Theatre is a Broadway theater at 222 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Compton, California

Compton is a city located in the Gateway Cities region of southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles.

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David Cromer

David Cromer (born October 17, 1964) is an American theatre director, and stage, film, and TV actor.

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Deaf West Theatre

Deaf West Theatre is a non-profit arts organization based in Los Angeles, California, US.

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Dogville

Dogville is a 2003 arthouse experimental avant-garde film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan with John Hurt narrating.

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Dorothy McGuire

Dorothy Hackett McGuire (June 14, 1916 – September 13, 2001) was an American actress.

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival is presented by the Drama Desk, a committee of New York City theatre critics, writers, and editors.

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Ed Begley

Edward James Begley Sr. (March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970) was an American actor of theatre, radio, film, and television.

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Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994).

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Elizabeth Hartman

Mary Elizabeth Hartman (December 23, 1943 – June 10, 1987) was an American actress of stage and screen.

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Ephraim Sykes

Ephraim Manessah Sykes (born July 17, 1985, in St. Petersburg, Florida) is an American actor and singer.

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Eric Stoltz

Eric Stoltz (born September 30, 1961) is an American actor, director and producer.

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Ethel Barrymore Theatre

The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theater at 243 West 47th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Eva Marie Saint

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American retired actress of film, theatre, radio and television.

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Fourth wall

The fourth wall is a performance convention in which an invisible, imaginary wall separates actors from the audience.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Frances Conroy

Frances Hardman Conroy (born March 15, 1953) is an American actress.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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Gateway Theatre (Edinburgh)

The Gateway Theatre was a Category C listed building in Edinburgh, Scotland, situated on Elm Row at the top of Leith Walk.

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Glynnis O'Connor

Glynnis O'Connor (born November 19, 1956) is an American actress of television, film, radio, and theater.

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Hal Holbrook

Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor.

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Harvey Evans

Harvey Evans (January 7, 1941 – December 24, 2021) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in the original Broadway productions of West Side Story, Follies, and Hello, Dolly!, among others.

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Helen Hunt

Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress and director.

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Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood.

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Homework

Homework is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed at home.

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Ice cream float

An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as a spider in Australia and New Zealand, is a chilled beverage that consists of ice cream in either a soft drink or a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Jane Curtin

Jane Therese Curtin (born September 6, 1947) is an American actress and comedian.

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Jason Butler Harner

Jason Thomas Butler Harner (born 1970 or 1971) is an American actor known for his role as FBI Special Agent Roy Petty in Ozark.

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Jayne Atkinson

Jayne Atkinson (born 18 February 1959) is a British-American actress.

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Jed Harris

Jed Harris (born Jacob Hirsch Horowitz; February 25, 1900 – November 15, 1979) was an Austrian-born American theatrical producer and director.

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Jim Parsons

James Joseph Parsons (born March 24, 1973) is an American actor.

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Jimmy Van Heusen

James Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990) was an American composer.

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John Craven (actor)

John Craven (June 22, 1916 – November 24, 1995) was an American actor in theater, film, and television.

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Julie Halston

Julie Halston (born December 7, 1954) is an American actress and comedian who appeared on television, film, and theatre.

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Katie Holmes

Kate Noelle Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress.

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Kenny Leon

Kenny Leon is an American director and producer.

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Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Lincolnshire, Illinois

Lincolnshire is a village in Vernon Township, Lake County, in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Love and Marriage

"Love and Marriage" is a 1955 song with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jimmy Van Heusen.

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Lux Radio Theatre

Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55).

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MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop)

MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Manuel Dominguez High School

Manuel Dominguez High School is a four-year public high school located in Compton, California.

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Margaret Hamilton (actress)

Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American actress and educator.

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Marriott Theatre

The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois is a respected Chicago area regional theatre.

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Martha Scott

Martha Ellen Scott (September 22, 1912 – May 28, 2003) was an American actress.

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Mary Martin

Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Masterpiece (TV series)

Masterpiece (formerly known as Masterpiece Theatre) is a drama anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston.

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McCarter Theatre

McCarter Theatre Center is a not-for-profit, professional company on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Metatheatre, and the closely related term metadrama, describes the aspects of a play that draw attention to its nature as drama or theatre, or to the circumstances of its performance.

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Michael McKean

Michael John McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, composer, singer, and musician known for various roles in film and television such as Lenny Kosnowski in Laverne & Shirley, David St.

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Michael Shannon

Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor.

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Monologue

In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.

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Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor.

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Morosco Theatre

The Morosco Theatre was a Broadway theatre near Times Square in New York City from 1917 to 1982.

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Ned Rorem

Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Center

New York City Center (previously known as the Mecca Temple, City Center of Music and Drama, and the New York City Center 55th Street Theater) is a performing arts center at 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) director in musical theater for nearly 40 years.

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OT: Our Town

OT: Our Town is a 2002 documentary film directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy.

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Our Town (1940 film)

Our Town is a 1940 American drama romance film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George Gibbs.

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Our Town (opera)

Our Town is a three-act opera by composer Ned Rorem and librettist J. D. McClatchy.

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Our Town (Producers' Showcase)

"Our Town" is a 1955 episode of the American anthology series Producers' Showcase directed by Delbert Mann and starring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint.

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Palm Beach Daily News

The Palm Beach Daily News is a newspaper serving the town of Palm Beach in Palm Beach County in South Florida.

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Pasadena Playhouse

Pasadena Playhouse is a Tony Award-winning historic performing arts venue located 39 S. El Molino Avenue in Pasadena, California.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Penelope Ann Miller

Penelope Ann Miller (born Penelope Andrea Miller; January 13, 1964), sometimes credited as Penelope Miller, is an American actress.

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Peterborough, New Hampshire

Peterborough is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Playbill

Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Producers' Showcase

Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC.

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Prop

A prop, formally known as a (theatrical) property, is an object actors use on stage or screen during a performance or screen production.

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. Our Town and Pulitzer Prize for Drama are Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning works.

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Richard Thomas (actor)

Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor.

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Robby Benson

Robby Benson (born Robin David Segal; January 21, 1956) is an American actor, director, and musician.

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Rockport, Massachusetts

Rockport is a seaside town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Sammy Cahn

Samuel Cohen (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993), known professionally as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist, songwriter, and musician.

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Samuel Steward

Samuel Morris Steward (July 23, 1909 – December 31, 1993), also known as Phil Andros, Phil Sparrow, was an American tattoo artist and pornographer.

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Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Scott Hamilton Kennedy (born 1965) is an Academy Award nominated documentary director, as well as a writer, producer, cameraman, and editor.

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Scouts BSA

Scouts BSA (Until 2019 previously known as Boy Scouts) is the flagship program and membership level of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) for boys and girls between the ages of typically 11 and 17.

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Set construction

Set construction is the process undertaken by a construction manager to build full-scale scenery, as specified by a production designer or art director working in collaboration with the director of a production to create a set for a theatrical, film, or television production.

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Showtime (TV network)

Showtime, also known as Paramount+ with Showtime (with "Showtime" being the former name of its main channel from 1976 to 2024, but still used for certain marketing and channel branding contexts), is an American premium television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.

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Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 –) was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist.

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Stage management

Stage management is a broad field that is generally defined as the practice of organization and coordination of an event or theatrical production.

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Stephen Kunken

Stephen Michael Kunken (born April 30, 1971) is an American actor.

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Stephen Sondheim Theatre

The Stephen Sondheim Theatre, formerly Henry Miller's Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 124 West 43rd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Story within a story

A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a literary device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of a second story (within the first one).

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Suicide by hanging

Suicide by hanging is the intentional killing of oneself (suicide) via suspension from an anchor-point such as an overhead beam or hook, by a rope or cord or by jumping from a height with a noose around the neck.

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Temperance movement

The temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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The Big Door Prize

The Big Door Prize is an American comedy television series based on the book of the same name by M. O. Walsh that premiered on Apple TV+ on March 29, 2023.

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The Campbell Playhouse (radio series)

The Campbell Playhouse (1938–1940) is a live CBS radio drama series directed by and starring Orson Welles.

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The Ford 50th Anniversary Show

The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, also known as The American Road, was a two-hour television special that was broadcast live on June 15, 1953, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Ford Motor Company purchased two hours of prime time from both NBC and CBS for an entertainment extravaganza celebrating the company's 50th anniversary.

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The United States Steel Hour

The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963.

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Theatrical scenery

Theatrical scenery is that which is used as a setting for a theatrical production.

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Thomas W. Ross

Thomas W. Ross (22 January 1875, Boston – 14 November 1959, Torrington, Connecticut) was an American stage and film actor.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Three-act structure

The three-act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts (acts), often called the Setup, the Confrontation, and the Resolution.

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Tom Lake

Tom Lake is a 2023 novel by Ann Patchett.

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Tom Shales

Thomas William Shales (November 3, 1944 – January 13, 2024) was an American writer and television critic.

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Tony Award for Best Revival

The Tony Award for Best Revival was given to the best play, musical or non-musical, which had already appeared on Broadway in a previous production.

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Tony Awards

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Victor Carin

Victor Carin (1 October 1933 – 2 January 1981) was a Scottish actor, director, and translator, who wrote for radio, television, film, and the stage.

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Wilbur Theatre

The Wilbur Theatre is a historic performing arts theater at 244–250 Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

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William Holden

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.

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Wonder (film)

Wonder is a 2017 American coming-of-age family comedy-drama directed by Stephen Chbosky, who co-wrote the screenplay with Steven Conrad and Jack Thorne.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion.

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Zoey Deutch

Zoey Francis Chaya Thompson Deutch (born November 10, 1994) is an American actress.

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See also

1938 plays

• Abe Lincoln in Illinois (play)
• Banana Ridge (play)
• Bossemans et Coppenolle
• Caligula (play)
• Casey Jones (play)
• Daybreak (play)
• Dear Octopus
• Death on the Table
• El gesticulador
• Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
• Gas Light
• Geneva (play)
• Good Hunting (play)
• How to Get Tough About It
• Jeu du Saint Sang
• L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara
• Les Parents terribles
• Love from a Stranger (1938 TV play)
• Men Without Wives
• Music at Night (play)
• Not About Nightingales
• On the Frontier
• One-Third of a Nation
• Our Town
• Purgatory (drama)
• Quiet Wedding (play)
• Rocket to the Moon (play)
• Shadow and Substance
• Song of Songs (Giraudoux)
• Spring Meeting (play)
• Still Stands the House
• The Corn Is Green
• The Fabulous Invalid
• The Innocent Party
• The Merchant of Yonkers
• The Mother (Čapek play)
• The Plot to Overthrow Christmas
• The Waltz Invention
• These Foolish Things (revue)
• Thieves' Carnival
• Tony Draws a Horse (play)
• Vagif (play)
• What a Life (play)
• When We Are Married
• Wives Have Their Uses

Coward-McCann books

• A Dram of Poison
• A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich (novel)
• A Subtreasury of American Humor
• Daughter of Earth
• Desolation Angels (novel)
• Ghost Story (Straub novel)
• If Israel Lost the War
• Julia (novel)
• Lay On, Mac Duff!
• Legs (novel)
• Manxmouse
• Mara, Daughter of the Nile
• Moccasin Trail
• Mountain Born
• Mrs. Mike
• Nothing at All (children's book)
• Our Town
• Sexual Heretics
• Shadowland (Straub novel)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (book)
• That Summer (Drury novel)
• The Black-Eyed Stranger
• The Blunderer
• The Case of the Weird Sisters
• The Chocolate Cobweb
• The Five Chinese Brothers
• The Golden Goblet
• The Great Salad Oil Swindle
• The Innocent Flower
• The Joke (novel)
• The Light on the Island
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (novel)
• The Little Locksmith
• The Long Christmas Dinner
• The Poseidon Adventure (novel)
• The Price of Salt
• The Real Majority
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
• The Room on the Roof
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• The Unsuspected (novel)
• Vanity of Duluoz
• Warriors for the Working Day
• What Witches Do
• Zodiac and Swastika

Fiction set in 1901

• 1901 (novel)
• 1901 in science fiction
• City of Light (novel)
• Mandie
• Our Town
• Peter and the Sword of Mercy
• Reilly, Ace of Spies
• Sherlock Holmes: The Musical
• The Billionaire of Dismal Downs
• Village of the Angels

Fiction set in 1904

• 1904 in science fiction
• A Nomad of the Time Streams
• Cheshire Crossing
• Gem of the Ocean
• Lime-iro Senkitan
• Madama Butterfly
• Mandie
• Our Town
• Reilly, Ace of Spies
• Seeing a Large Cat
• Shanghaied in Astoria
• Summerfolk
• Survivors of the Flux
• The Angel of the Revolution
• The Army of a Dream
• The Case of Jennie Brice
• The Lost Boy (novella)
• The Mistress and the Maids
• Ulysses (novel)

Fiction set in 1913

• 1913 in science fiction
• Bedelia (novel)
• Desirous of Change
• Die Fastnachtsbeichte
• Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
• Goodwill to All Men
• High Button Shoes
• Human Nature (Doctor Who)
• JLA: Age of Wonder
• Lost Girls (graphic novel)
• Maigret's First Case
• Our Town
• Parade (musical)
• Rose's Pigeon
• Spring Snow
• Suffs
• Tender Is the Night
• The Beginning of Spring
• The Bolter
• The Family of Blood
• The Ghost Belonged to Me
• The Green Meadow
• The Indian Clerk
• The Makropulos Affair
• The Man Who Planted Trees
• The Stranger's Child
• Word of Honour (Upstairs, Downstairs)

Plays by Thornton Wilder

• Our Town
• The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
• The Long Christmas Dinner
• The Matchmaker
• The Merchant of Yonkers
• The Skin of Our Teeth

Plays set in New Hampshire

• Our Town
• The Devil's Disciple (play)
• The Heidi Chronicles

Plays set in the 1900s

• Ah, Wilderness!
• Carry Nation (play)
• Casey Jones (play)
• Gem of the Ocean
• Gertrud (play)
• Green Grow the Lilacs (play)
• Our Town
• Picasso at the Lapin Agile
• Poor Murderer
• Summer and Smoke
• The Bunyip (musical)
• The Captain of Köpenick (play)
• The Dance of Death (Strindberg play)
• The Empress (play)
• The Flea (play)
• The Glass Cage (play)
• The Good Hope
• The Morality of Mrs. Dulska
• The Orphans' Home Cycle
• The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus

Plays set in the 1910s

• A Disappearing Number
• Beschuit met muisjes (play)
• Black Souls (play)
• Carry Nation (play)
• Dear Mother and All
• Her Naked Skin
• Joe Turner's Come and Gone
• Long Day's Journey into Night
• Look Homeward, Angel (play)
• Make Way for Lucia
• Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper
• Our Town
• Summer and Smoke
• Teahouse (play)
• The Fields of Ambrosia
• The Iceman Cometh
• The Makropulos Affair
• The Orphans' Home Cycle
• The Plough and the Stars
• This Grave Is Too Small for Me
• Tom & Viv (play)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town

Also known as Grover's Corners, Grover's Corners, New Hampshire.

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