Thornton Wilder's The Emporium tickets
About Thornton Wilder's The Emporium
See the final play by one of America's greatest dramatists, Thornton Wilder. The Emporium plays for a limited run only this spring at Classic Stage Company downtown, beginning performances in April. The story of one man and his life-changing journey, The Emporium off Broadway promises to be a singular story whether audiences are a longtime Wilder fan or encountering his esteemed work for the first time.
Experience The Emporium in New York to see this special production that brings to life the final play by Wilder, known for his classics including Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth. After a banner year including The Baker's Wife, CSC concludes its season with the New York premiere of a master American playwright's final work, adapted and completed by Kirk Lynn (Lipstick Traces) and directed by Rob Melrose (Born with Teeth). Don't miss this gorgeous work examining one man's unique life.
Thornton Wilder's The Emporium cast and creative team
By: Thornton Wilder, adapted and completed by Kirk Lynn
Director: Rob Melrose
Producer: Classic Stage Company
Cast list: Candy Buckley (as Bernice), Mahira Kakkar (as Mrs. Frisbee), Eva Kaminsky (as Miss Coley), Patrick Kerr (as Mr. Benjamin), Derek Smith (as Mr. Foster), Joe Tapper (as John), Cassia Thompson (as Laurencia)
Sets: Walt Spangler
Costumes: Alejo Vietti
Lighting: Cat Tate Starmer
Sound: Darron L West
More information about Thornton Wilder's The Emporium
In The Emporium, a young man journeys through the city and beyond, where he encounters a world of wonder, meaning, and all the elusive truths of life itself. Thornton Wilder’s long-unseen masterpiece is finally ready to be discovered, offering a rare chance to experience a fresh work from a legendary voice.
“Launched in 1947 amid a storm of rising acclaim and honorable artistic duties and distractions here and abroad, Thornton Wilder (who appeared on the cover of Time in January 1953) struggled unsuccessfully for a decade to complete a major new drama. Thanks to enticing and regular press coverage, its title was known far and wide: The Emporium,” said Tappan Wilder, nephew to Thornton Wilder, in a statement.
He went on to say, “The Wilder family can’t be too grateful to Kirk Lynn for exploring the known published and little-known vast unpublished archival record of this work, grounded in Wilder’s passionate post-WWII encounter with existentialism, and then agreeing to complete a play exploring the loneliness of the American experience in all its humor, sadness, hope — and freedom."
What to watch for
- Classic Stage Company is known for its revivals of beloved works but also for, as with this play, resurfacing more obscure works for a wider audience.
- Thonrton Wilder won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth.
- Kirk Lynn us no stranger to working with older texts; his work has included reworking a number of Shakespeare productions.
- Rob Melrose is the current Artistic Director of Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas.
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