Our Town at Hypocrites

From Chris Jones's review: "David Cromer brilliantly revisionist and generally astounding new production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” at The Hypocrites is his masterwork to date.....“He’s going on like this about Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town?’” you must be thinking. “That hoary small-town staple of the high school repertory?” Ah, but you’ve never seen it done like this before. Here is what Cromer (who plays the stage manager along with directing) does: He removes every last shred of sentimentality from the piece, replacing it with a blend of cynicism and simple human truth. But—and here’s the rub—he does so without removing the vitality and sincerity. Like many great revivals (the current “South Pacific” at Lincoln Center is in my mind), it’s neither archly conceptual nor a subversion of a great American play, but an explication for the modern age. I’m telling you, it’s that revelatory a show."