Video: Katie Holmes, Jim Parsons & More OUR TOWN Cast Members on the Red Carpet
Hear from director Kenny Leon, and many more.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Oct. 15, 2024
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Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, directed by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon, is now officially open at the Barrymore Theatre. BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet for the opening night! See what the cast members had to say about the opening of the show, and learn more about the production!
Katie Holmes shared, "To celebrate it tonight, with all of these people who I feel so close to is just so exciting. It feels like Christmas Eve."
Jim Parsons shared, "Between the 27 other cast members and Kenny, there wasn't a single person in the room I'd ever worked with before. And to meet and get to know that many people under the umbrella of a play like this, which is about us forming a town and a community, it's been wonderfully intense."
Thornton Wilder’s Our Town features 28 actors led by Emmy, Golden Globe & Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Jim Parsons as “Stage Manager”, Zoey Deutch as “Emily Webb”, Katie Holmes as “Mrs. Webb”, Obie & Audelco Award-winner and Drama Desk-nominee Billy Eugene Jones as “Dr. Gibbs”, Tony & Grammy Award-nominee Ephraim Sykes as “George Gibbs”, Tony & Drama Desk Award-nominee and Emmy-Award-winner Richard Thomas as “Mr. Webb”, Tony & Drama Desk-nominee Michelle Wilson as “Mrs. Gibbs”, 2021 Special Tony Award-winner and Drama Desk-nominee Julie Halston as “Mrs. Soames”, Donald Webber, Jr. as “Simon Stimson”, as well as Ephie Aardema Sarnak, Heather Ayers, Willa Bost, Bobby Daye, Safiya Kaijya Harris, Doron JéPaul, Shyla Lefner, Anthony Michael Lopez, John McGinty, Bryonha Marie, Kevyn Morrow, Hagan Oliveras, Noah Pyzik, Sky Smith, Bill Timoney, Ricardo Vázquez, Matthew Elijah Webb, Greg Wood and Nimene Sierra Wureh.
Our Town, the timeless drama of life in the village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, has become an American classic with universal appeal. Thornton Wilder’s most frequently performed play, Our Town appeared on Broadway in 1938 to wide acclaim, and won the Pulitzer Prize.
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