Katie Holmes and Jim Parsons Will Lead Broadway Revival of ‘Our Town’
The first Broadway production in nearly 25 years of Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town will open in September, featuring a raft of stars of stage and screen, including Katie Holmes, Jim Parsons, Richard Thomas, Zoey Deutch, Billy Eugene Jones, Julie Halston, Ephraim Sykes, and Michelle Wilson.
The much-loved and performed play—about life in the town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 and 1913—was first performed in 1938, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama that year. Its 1988/89 Broadway revival received a Tony Award.
Kenny Leon will direct the 28-strong cast in the new revival, in which Parsons will play the Stage Manager/narrator, with Holmes as Mrs. Webb, Thomas as Mr. Webb, and Deutch as Emily Webb.