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.

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.

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.

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.

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Amid the last claps of his standing ovation, director Kenny Leon had some final (and colorful) words for his audience at Barrymore Theatre: “Our-Fucking-Town!” Indeed, Leon—along with his star-studded cast of Jim Parsons,