The Stranger, October 21st, 2004
If this clumsy production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town is what Intiman's five-year classic play initiative, pompously titled "The American Cycle," is going to be about, I want none of it. The decision to cast minor television-celebrity Tom Skerritt in the role of the Stage Manager may rake in the box-office cash, but it also rakes the rest of the cast over blistering coals. Skerritt can barely keep his lines straight, much less convince us that he can conjure infinitely detailed worlds and usher the dead into the realm of the living. His is the only artificially amplified voice, and as his mu...
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