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The Matchmaker is a 1954 Broadway play by Thornton Wilder, a rewritten version of his 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers . History. Theatre decor of ACT 2. The play has a long and colorful history.
- Thornton Wilder
- 1955
The Matchmaker, comedy in four acts by Thornton Wilder, produced in 1954 and published in 1955. The Matchmaker is more traditional than Wilder’s earlier plays, specifically Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, although it does employ one of the playwright’s favourite nontraditional devices of having.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Matchmaker. Play. Writers: Thornton Wilder. Overview. Show Information. Book. Thornton Wilder. Based on the Play/Book/Film. The Merchant of Yonkers (Thornton Wilder; 1938) Category. Play. Number of Acts. First Produced. 1954. Genres. Comedy, Farce. Settings. Period, Multiple Settings. Time & Place. Yonkers, New York City, 1880s. Cast Size.
The Matchmaker debuted in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 4, 1954, and was already an international success when it opened on Broadway on December 5, 1955. In 1964 Hello, Dolly! , a musical adaptation of The Matchmaker starring Carol Channing in the title role, premiered on Broadway, and ran for seven years.
The Matchmaker. THORNTON WILDER 1954. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY. PLOT SUMMARY. CHARACTERS. THEMES. STYLE. HISTORICAL CONTEXT. CRITICAL OVERVIEW. CRITICISM. SOURCES. FURTHER READING. Thornton Wilder’s play The Matchmaker is a farce in the old-fashioned sense. It uses such time-honored conventions as characters hidden under tables and in closets, men ...
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954. Plot Summary. In The Matchmaker: A Farce in Four Acts, Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Thornton Wilder chronicles the comedic romantic misadventures of a Yonkers, New York, marriage broker and those in her orbit.
The Matchmaker is a 1954 Broadway play by Thornton Wilder, a rewritten version of his 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers. Quick Facts The Matchmaker, Written by ...
