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The Sunday Critic is a theatre-first, DC-forward newsletter of cultural criticism from D.R. Lewis.

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The One With All the O's

On Octet, Oedipus, O'Neill's Anna Christie, and more

Prologue: Thorntons and Johns

Welcome to "A Walk on the Wilder Sider: A Queer Reading of Thornton Wilder" by D.R. Lewis

Part One: The Intimate Wilder

The first installment of "A Walk on the Wilder Side: A Queer Reading of Thornton Wilder"

Part Two: Artists, Laymen, and the “Failure in Living”

The second installment of "A Walk on the Wilder Side: A Queer Reading of Thornton Wilder"

Part Three: Wonderful Woman

The third installment of "A Walk on the Wilder Sider: A Queer Reading of Thornton Wilder"

Postscript: Eleven O’Clock in a Grover’s Corners Gay Bar

Final thoughts on "A Walk on the Wilder Side: A Queer Reading of Thornton Wilder"

Bibliography

Sources for "A Walk on the Wilder Side: A Queer Reading of Thornton Wilder"

Have Yourself a Merry (Messy) Little Christmas

On Rules for Living, Ella McCay, and Top 10 Shows of 2025

Something is Eternal

On the 50th anniversary of Thornton Wilder's death, Guys and Dolls, Merrily We Roll Along on film, and Hamnet

'Tis the Season to (Not) Be...Married?

On ho ho ho ha ha ha ha, Liberation, Beau: The Musical, A Case for the Existence of God, Stephen Fry, In Good Company, and A Man of No Importance