Our Town: Michael Sheen stars in ‘beautiful’ Thornton Wilder classic

Having lost its Arts Council funding, National Theatre Wales folded in 2024. Risen from its ashes, said Dominic Cavendish in The Telegraph, is the new Welsh National Theatre, with the actor Michael Sheen “valiantly serving” as the company’s core funder and artistic director. He also takes the lead in its curtain-raiser – a touching staging of “Our Town”, Thornton Wilder’s 1938 classic about small-town life in America. The text is unchanged, and the design is faithful to the play’s setting – Grover’s Corners...