George Gibbs and Emily Webb are just an ordinary boy and girl, going through the pains and joys of growing up in an ordinary town. Except, seen through the tender, observant lens of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, their lives don’t seem that ordinary at all. This classic of American theatre tore up dramatic convention when it was first produced in 1938, treating the highs and lows of ordinary folks with the care and attention usually reserved for kings and queens. This bitte... See more >