In his foreword to the 2003 Perennial Classics edition of Our Town, Donald Margulies wrote that Wilder’s play is “anything but dated, it is timeless; it is simple, but also profound; it is full of genuine sentiment, which is not the same as its being sentimental; and, as far as its being uneventful, well, the event of the play is huge: it’s life itself. Like many works of great art, its greatness can be deceptive: a bare stage, spare language, archetypal characters” (Wilder, Our Town xiv). Practically the same words could be used to describe Margulies’s newest play, Lunar Eclipse, which had its world premiere at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, on September 17 after previews on the 15th and 16th. The two-hander starred Tony winner Reed Birney (Stephen Karam’s The Humans on Broadway) and screen legend Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark) as...

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