With so much turmoil in the world, it’s at least a little comforting that things haven’t changed much in Grover’s Corners, the place that gives Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938 report from Smalltown USA, its name. People there are born, love and die without so much as looking up to savor what they have. That’s life.

The new production of the canonical American play, directed by Kenny Leon, sees the classic through through a contemporary lens.

One of director Kenny Leon’s distinctive gifts is his ability to take a canonical American play and make it feel like it was written about all Americans.

In Kenny Leon's adaptation of Thorton Wilder's classic play, "Our Town" Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes are fantastic as citizens of Grover's Corners.

The first act of “Our Town” takes place in Grover’s Corners on May 7, 1901. Nothing much happens in the fictional New Hampshire village that day, except that two local teenagers, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, fall in love completely unaware that they do so under the shadow of the granitic pillars of time.

Whatever else Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (Barrymore Theatre, booking to Jan. 19) is, it isn’t as honeyed a classic as it is sometimes imagined. Kenny Leon’s celebrity-filled Broadway revival is a brisk,

Kenny Leon's production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town is now officially open on Broadway and the critics have had their say and we've rounded them up. Read all the reviews for the production, marks the first major Broadway revival of the classic play in nearly 25 years.

The fifth Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's classic "Our Town" opened Thursday, and outside the Barrymore Theatre, the show's producers have very wisely posted rave blurbs about the play. What makes these very upbeat words different from the usual huzzahs delivered by critics is that they come from two famous playwrights.