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- Our Town
Starring four-time Emmy Award® winner Jim Parsons, Our Town returns to Broadway for the first time in over 20 years. Hailed by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Thornton Wilder‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic will shine in a momentous new production. Directed by Tony Award® winner Kenny Leon (Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, Topdog/Underdog, A Raisin in the Sun), this is an Our Town for our time.
The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is the last theatre Lee and J.J. Shubert constructed, and it is the only surviving theatre that the Shuberts built for performers who were associated with them. Designed by Herbert J. Krapp for renowned actress Ethel Barrymore (extremely popular in New York and London), the theatre opened on December 20, 1928. The outside was fashioned on the design of public baths in Rome. The interior design combines Elizabethan, Mediterranean, and Adamsesque styles. 
Barrymore’s debut at her theatre was in The Kingdom of God in December 1928. Over the next twelve years she starred in The Love Duel (1929), Scarlett Sister Mary (1930), and The School for Scandal (1931). Her final performance at her theatre was An International Incident in 1940. Unlike many of the older theatres that have been used for various purposes, the Barrymore Theatre has consistently housed theatrical productions.
In 1940, Ethel Barrymore starred in An International Incident, which was her final performance at the Barrymore Theatre.
