Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. First produced in 1938, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Our Town has become an American stage treasure and is Wilder's most renowned and frequently performed play. Set at the turn of the 20th century, the play reveals the ordinary lives of the people in the small town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, U.S.A. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives.