A SPECIAL STAGED READING OF OUR TOWN- 

Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town in 1938 to be performed on a bare stage—no scenery, no props, just actors and the audience's imagination—which makes a staged reading not a stripped-down version of the play but something close to its truest form. Following the ordinary residents of Grover's Corners through a morning, a wedding, and a funeral, it builds to Emily's aching question: "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?" That question lands even harder today, in a world engineered to keep our attention everywhere except the room we're actually in. Nearly ninety years on, Our Town remains one of the most-produced plays in America—not out of nostalgia, but because every generation rediscovers it was written about them. For one night only, with a special cast on the Kaplan Family Stage, it's a reminder of the thing live theater does that nothing else can.