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The Hypocrites’ lauded 2008 revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town opens off-Broadway 2/26, at the Barrow Street Theatre in Greenwich Village. Directed by Chicagoan David Cromer–who also appears onstage as the Stage Manager, narrating Wilder’s story of life and death in a small New Hampshire town at the start of the 20th century–the production is a joint effort between Barrow Street and producer Jean Doumanian, a former Saturday Night Live writer-producer who helped bring Steppenwolf’s August: Osage County to Broadway last season.
Interestingly, some of Cromer’s earliest directing efforts here were seen at the now-defunct Big Game Theater in Rogers Park, co-founded by Anna D. Shapiro, who is directing Lookingglass Theatre‘s new production of–yes–Our Town, opening 2/21. Cromer and Shapiro both studied theater at Columbia College (where I teach).
