Our Town

American  

noun

1. a play (1938) by Thornton Wilder.

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Our Town Cultural  

1. (1938) A Pulitzer Prize –winning play by Thornton Wilder, dealing with everyday life in a small town in New England.

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Example Sentences

“No, I mean our town. Churchill. We build a city right in the middle of the polar bears’ migration route, and then we spend all this time and money and energy trying to keep them out,” said Owen.

From Literature

But Our Town is thought to have inspired Dylan Thomas's Welsh masterpiece Under Milk Wood and, recognising its depiction of small-town community life, Sheen and director Francesca Goodridge decided to move Grover's Corners to Wales.

From BBC

Our Town opens in Swansea, the new company's home city, before touring to north Wales and ending in south-west London at the Rose theatre, the show's co-producer.

From BBC

Our Town has been partly funded by a recent one-man tour by Matthew Rhys, another of Wales's biggest acting names.

From BBC

For the major costs of shows like Our Town, he put his funds down as a guarantee if no other money was available.

From BBC