Most great plays are about death, but Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” is the most likely American play of the 20th century to have you walking out of the theater determined to do things a little differently in your day-to-day existence — most importantly,

With so much turmoil in the world, it’s at least a little comforting that things haven’t changed much in Grover’s Corners, the place that gives Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938 report from Smalltown USA, its name. People there are born, love and die without so much as looking up to savor what they have. That’s life.

Whatever else Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (Barrymore Theatre, booking to Jan. 19) is, it isn’t as honeyed a classic as it is sometimes imagined. Kenny Leon’s celebrity-filled Broadway revival is a brisk,

Kenny Leon's production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town is now officially open on Broadway and the critics have had their say and we've rounded them up. Read all the reviews for the production, marks the first major Broadway revival of the classic play in nearly 25 years.

In Kenny Leon's adaptation of Thorton Wilder's classic play, "Our Town" Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes are fantastic as citizens of Grover's Corners.

The first act of “Our Town” takes place in Grover’s Corners on May 7, 1901. Nothing much happens in the fictional New Hampshire village that day, except that two local teenagers, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, fall in love completely unaware that they do so under the shadow of the granitic pillars of time.

So goes the question asked and answered by Thorton Wilder’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, a text just as resonant 86 years after it was penned. The short answer is, of course, no. And the long answer is once again unfolding on Broadway, under the direction of Tony winner Kenny Leon.

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The new Broadway revival of “Our Town,” which opened Thursday night at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, puts all its chips on “Our.” Theater review OUR TOWN .review-block-star --review-block-star--empty-color: #585858;