Film Screening: Our Town

This kick-off event to The Big Read, a national effort to encourage community-wide reading projects, presents the 2003 film of Thornton Wilder’s novel Our Town, presented by the Westport Country Playhouse and starring Paul Newman.  Newman plays the Stage Manager, who narrates the immortal tale of Grover’s Corners, USA, and its citizens.  Organizers of The Big Read grant project will be on hand to introduce the project, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.  Admission is free.