Shoshana Greenberg, Tappan Wilder, and Jackson Bryer at the Thornton Wilder Strategy Meeting in November
On Thursday, November 16th, members of the Thornton Wilder Society board attended the Thornton Wilder Strategy meeting in NYC. It was wonderful seeing people from all over the Wilder arena. After all our updates, we all chatted about the upcoming Broadway revival of Our Town with its producer. We all left feeling energized for a 2024 full of Wilder.
Visit Playbill.com to read the Our Town Broadway announcement.
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We also held three Zoom Readings.
- In March, Thornton Wilder Society members and enthusiasts gathered for a reading and discussion of Wilder’s
Pulitzer-winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey. - “It was wonderful to have Thornton’s nephew Tappy [Tappan Wilder] and niece Dixie [Catharine Guiles] join the
discussion–as close as we can come to getting answers from Thornton himself.” — Lincoln Konkle - In August, Thornton Wilder Society members and friends read Wilder’s short plays “The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden” and “Queens of France,” and we had a wonderful discussion afterward.
- “What a treat! I so enjoyed being with the Wilder reading group. It was the
post-reading discussions that delighted me most. Being in the company of scholars who shared their literary and academic perspectives on the plays provided me with deeper understandings of Wilder’s brilliance. I am ever more aware now of his skillful juxtaposing of life and death realities through the most subtle of dialogue interactions.” — Peggy Heller - And in December, Thornton Wilder Society members and enthusiasts gathered for our annual Zoom reading of The Long Christmas Dinner and Virtual Holiday Party.
- “I’m always impressed dramatically about how Wilder could wring pathos out of cliché! It’s both old and new every time.” — David Scharff
Be sure to join the Zoom Reading email list by emailing thorntonwildersociety@gmail.com to be the first to get the info on all the Zoom readings.
The recent Zoom Reading of The Long Christmas Dinner
Thornton Wilder Journal Issue 1 Cover
Published by Penn State University Press
Additionally, the sixth issue of the Thornton Wilder Journal, featuring previously unpublished Wilder correspondence with Canadian novelist and playwright Timothy Findley, and the seventh issue have now been published.
For more information on the Journal, please visit our Journal page.
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We look forward to sharing Wilder with you in 2024!