The Wilder Family
Thornton Wilder’s Desert Oasis
For the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Douglas, Arizona was a place to “refresh the wells” and drive into the sunset.
Staging Wilder – A Live Stream Conversation April 24, 2017 at 7pm ET
As Hello, Dolly! returns to Broadway, The Wilder Family and Samuel French present a conversation on staging Thornton Wilder’s works
THE NEW YORKER: Thornton Wilder’s Optimistic Catastrophe: ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’
From the Culture Desk of The New Yorker: Almost any evening, somewhere in America, the curtain is going up on
REVIEW: Village Voice – Joys Great and Small: A Spectacular ‘Skin of Our Teeth’
The Village Voice reviews Theatre for a New Audience's production of The Skin of Our Teeth.
Why Thornton Wilder Matters in the Trump Era
Several admirers of the play spoke recently about why “The Skin of Our Teeth” endures, what makes it problematic and why this could be a ripe time for its resurgence. Here are edited excerpts from those interviews.
Happy 2017 from Wilder Central
“The gift to the public of laughter without malice is one of the most useful things a man can do,”
Fresno and Modesto to Present Our Town Opera
Fresno Grand Opera is excited to announce the company will host a community event around its production of the opera
Performing Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey at Fairfield Ludlow High School
“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the