About the Show
The Group Rep Presents OUR TOWN Now – December 21, 2025
The Group Rep is proud to present Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning classic American play OUR TOWN, directed by Mareli Mitchel-Shields and produced by Cynthia Payo and Tamir Yardenne.
Emily Webb begins the play overjoyed at a successful speech she gave at school. She interacts briefly with her possible suitor/next-door neighbor George Gibbs, and suddenly they’re getting married. After giving birth to their second child — and through a strange twist of fate — Emily gets to relive a special day of her life, but finds the experience illuminating and simultaneously tormenting, realizing she took her wonderful life for granted. OUR TOWN beautifully and poetically re-creates a theatrical picture of small town, USA and the precious nature of life we all seem to take for granted. Themes of family, home, cycles, and the value of c
