Our Town Tickets

Our Town Tickets

If you're looking for Our Town tickets, you're planning to see one of the defining works of American theater. Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has been performed continuously for more than eight decades, from Broadway revivals to regional, community, and educational productions around the world, and remains widely regarded as one of the greatest American plays ever written.

This page covers everything you need — from what the show is and what to expect, to finding the right seats and buying with complete confidence.

Show Information

Our Town premiered on January 22, 1938, at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, before opening on Broadway on February 4, 1938, at Henry Miller's Theatre. Written by Thornton Wilder, the original Broadway production was directed and produced by Jed Harris. The play is an original three-act American drama, not an adaptation, and its bare-stage design and direct audience address were groundbreaking for American theater of its time.

The production is a staple of the American theatrical repertoire, staged by professional, regional, community, and educational theaters worldwide. Our Town is typically performed as a three-act play with a runtime of approximately 2 hours to 2 hours 15 minutes, usually including one or two intermissions depending on the production. Recent activity includes a 2024 Broadway revival that brought Wilder's classic to contemporary audiences.

Our Town won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and has earned additional recognition across its many revivals, including Tony recognition for its productions. Its original Broadway run lasted 336 performances, and the play has since been translated into numerous languages, adapted for film, television, and radio, and produced thousands of times annually. A 2003 PBS/Broadway revival starred Paul Newman as the Stage Manager, and the play remains a perennial fixture of high school and university drama programs.

If you're searching for Our Town tickets or want to check the current Our Town show schedule, Box Office Ticket Sales carries inventory across available performance dates and productions.

Story Summary

Our Town is set in the fictional small town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 and 1913. Guided by the Stage Manager, the play follows the everyday lives of the town's residents through three acts titled "Daily Life," "Love and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." At the center are the neighboring Gibbs and Webb families, especially young George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose courtship and marriage become the emotional heart of the play.

The story begins with the rhythms of ordinary life: breakfast, school, chores, church, family conversation, and the routines that make up a community. As the play moves forward, Wilder turns those familiar details into something larger, reflecting on love, marriage, mortality, eternity, and the fleeting beauty of each moment. The Stage Manager serves as narrator, guide, commentator, and participant, breaking the fourth wall and inviting the audience to imagine Grover's Corners with only minimal scenery and props.

You do not need any prior knowledge to understand Our Town. The play is self-contained and designed to be universally accessible, with the Stage Manager leading the audience through the story in a way that makes its themes of family, memory, love, and time land across ages and backgrounds.

Story Highlights

These signature moments show why Our Town has remained such a powerful live theater experience for generations:

• "Act I: Daily Life" — The Stage Manager introduces Grover's Corners and walks the audience through an ordinary morning. The scene establishes the play's small-town world, its direct-address style, and its focus on the meaning hidden inside everyday routines.

• "Emily and George's Soda Fountain Scene" — George and Emily share a tender, awkward moment over an ice cream soda as they begin to realize their feelings for each other. It is one of the beloved centerpieces of the "Love and Marriage" act, capturing the vulnerability and sweetness of young love.

• "The Wedding" — George and Emily's marriage in Act II is framed by the Stage Manager's reflections on love and the passage of time. The scene blends joy with bittersweet foreshadowing, reminding the audience that life's happiest moments are also fleeting.

• "Act III: The Cemetery" — The dead of Grover's Corners sit quietly in rows of chairs, creating one of the play's most haunting images. The moment shifts the play into a meditation on eternity, memory, and the distance that comes after life.

• "Emily's Return to the Living" — Emily chooses to relive her twelfth birthday and is overwhelmed by how little the living notice life's beauty while it is happening. This emotional climax includes the play's famous question about whether anyone truly realizes life while they live it.

Other Theater Shows You Might Like

If Our Town is your kind of show, the following productions tend to appeal to audiences who appreciate classic American drama, intimate storytelling, and richly drawn characters.

• The Glass Menagerie Tickets
• Death of a Salesman Tickets
• A Streetcar Named Desire Tickets
• The Crucible Tickets
• Long Day's Journey Into Night Tickets
• Picnic Tickets
• The Skin of Our Teeth Tickets
• A Raisin in the Sun Tickets
• Spoon River Anthology Tickets
• Harvey Tickets

How Much Do Tickets to Our Town Cost?

Our Town ticket prices vary by seat location, performance date, venue, and production type, including whether the performance is part of a Broadway revival, regional engagement, community staging, or educational production.

Our Town ticket prices vary based on venue, city, seat location, date, and performance time. Premium orchestra and front sections are in high demand, while rear and upper-level sections offer excellent value.

Pricing can also shift based on weekend versus weeknight performances, market strength, and how much inventory remains for a specific date. Buying earlier usually gives you a better selection of orchestra, mezzanine, and balcony seats, especially when a revival or popular local production is attracting strong interest.

No hidden fees. At Box Office Ticket Sales, the price you see is the price you pay. All fees are shown before checkout — no surprise charges when you reach the final step.

How to Buy Our Town Tickets

Getting your Our Town tickets through BoxOfficeTicketSales.com is fast and straightforward. Here's how the process works:

• Browse Our Town productions — Search for Our Town tickets and select the production, city, and date that work for your schedule
• Pick your seats — Use the interactive seating map to compare sections, rows, views, and real-time pricing side by side
• Secure checkout — Pay with a credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay, or Affirm for flexible payment options
• Receive your tickets — Digital tickets are delivered to your email or mobile wallet before the show, ready to scan at the theater entrance

Every order is backed by our 100% verified ticket guarantee and on-time delivery promise. Once your order is confirmed, you'll receive an email with your invoice and everything you need before curtain time.

Our Town Seating Guide

Our Town is performed in theater venues of varying sizes, from Broadway houses to regional and educational stages. Because the play often uses a minimalist visual style, where you sit can shape how closely you connect with the actors, the Stage Manager's direct address, and the intimate world of Grover's Corners.

Best Seats for Our Town

For the strongest experience, look for seats that give you a clear view of the full stage while keeping you close enough to catch the play's quieter emotional details.

• Best value: upper mezzanine and rear orchestra sections — These seats often provide a full-stage view at a more accessible price point, which works well for a production built around ensemble movement, spoken language, and imaginative staging.
• Closest to the stage: front orchestra sections — Sitting close brings you nearer to the actors' expressions and the Stage Manager's direct connection with the audience.
• Best overall experience: mid-orchestra and front mezzanine sections — These areas typically offer the best balance of proximity and perspective, especially for a play that uses simple chairs, tables, ladders, and open space to suggest entire homes and town settings.
• For groups: coordinate contiguous seats early, since blocks in popular orchestra and mezzanine sections can sell through quickly for well-attended productions and revivals.

Our Town Seating Chart

You can view an interactive seating map for Our Town productions directly on BoxOfficeTicketSales.com while browsing available listings. The map lets you compare sections, check row depth and distance from the stage, and see real-time pricing for what's currently available — all before committing to a purchase.

Can I See Where My Seats Are?

Yes. The interactive seat map on BoxOfficeTicketSales.com shows your exact section and row placement before you buy. Use it to understand your angle to the stage, your distance from the front, and whether you're in the orchestra, mezzanine, or balcony — so the seats you choose match exactly what you're looking for before the curtain rises.

Getting Ready for Show Night

Once your tickets are confirmed, a little preparation makes the full experience run smoothly from arrival through the final bow.

• Download your tickets before you leave. Cell service around the venue can be congested on busy performance nights. Save your tickets to your phone's wallet or screenshot them before heading out so you're ready at the door without needing a signal.
• Charge your phone fully. Digital ticketing is standard at most theaters. A portable battery pack is worth having, especially if you're combining the show with dinner or other activities.
• Arrive at least 30 minutes before curtain. Theater doors open well before the show begins; arriving early gives you time to find your seats and settle in before the house lights go down — and avoids the disruption of late seating, which many theaters restrict.
• Plan for the intermission. Our Town is typically performed in three acts with one or two intermissions, so expect an act break during the performance. Lines for concessions and restrooms can build immediately after intermission begins.
• Know the venue's phone and photography policy. As with most professional theatrical productions, audiences are asked to silence phones and refrain from recording or photographing during the performance.
• For families and students. Our Town is appropriate for most ages and is a mainstay of school productions, though its meditative themes on life and death can be especially resonant for older students and adults.

Is Box Office Ticket Sales Legit?

Yes — Box Office Ticket Sales is a fully verified, secure ticketing platform that has served over 1 million customers since 2012. When you buy Our Town tickets through BoxOfficeTicketSales.com, here's what backs every purchase:

• 100% verified ticket listings — every listing is authenticated before it reaches you
• On-time delivery guarantee — your tickets arrive before the event, or we make it right
• All seats together unless explicitly noted otherwise in the listing
• SSL-encrypted checkout — your payment information is protected at every step
• 24/7 TrustGuard monitoring — active security oversight around the clock
• Access to 125,000+ live events nationwide, from Broadway and touring productions to concerts and major sports
• BoxOfficeTicketSales.com has been selling tickets for 21 years and is BBB accredited

Our Town is one of the most consistently in-demand classic plays in live theater, and Broadway revivals, regional productions, and weekend performances can sell through fast. The best-value listings disappear first. If you have a specific date or city in mind, acting sooner gets you better seats at better prices. Browse Our Town tickets now and lock in your seats before inventory moves.

Need Help With Your Our Town Tickets?

Our support team is available before, during, and after your purchase. Reach us through any of these channels:

• Live chat: Log in to your account at BoxOfficeTicketSales.com to chat with an agent
• Email: customersupport@boxofficeticketsales.com
• Phone: Call the number on your order confirmation invoice
• Buy by phone: Call 1-800-515-2171 to purchase tickets directly with a representative