- Our Town was first performed on radio May 12, 1939, on The Campbell Playhouse. The cast included Orson Welles as the Stage Manager, John Craven, of the original stage production, as George Gibbs, and Patricia Newton as Emily Webb.
- Our Town (1940 film), an adaptation starring Martha Scott as Emily and William Holden as George Gibbs, with an original music score composed by Aaron Copland. Four members of the original cast repeated their roles in this film, although the ending was changed so that Emily lived.
- Our Town (1940 radio): on May 6, 1940, a radio version was performed by many of the same film actors for Lux Radio Theater.
- Our Town (1946 radio): on September 29, 1946, a radio version was performed on the Theatre Guild on the Air featuring Thornton Wilder himself as the Stage Manager and Dorothy McGuire as Emily.
- In 1953, The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, broadcast live on both the CBS and NBC television networks, featured a scene from Our Town, including performances by Mary Martin and Oscar Hammerstein II. The Ford show attracted an audience of 60 million viewers. Forty years after the broadcast, television critic Tom Shales recalled the broadcast as both "a landmark in television" and "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s."[27]
- Our Town (television), a live musical 1955 television adaptation on Producers' Showcase starring Frank Sinatra as the Stage Manager, Paul Newman as George Gibbs, and Eva Marie Saint as Emily. The first and only musical version of the play to be telecast. The song "Love and Marriage" was written for this production by Jimmy van Heusen and Sammy Cahn.
- Our Town,[28] a 1977 television adaptation of the play, starring Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager, Robby Benson as George Gibbs and Glynnis O'Connor as Emily Webb.
- Grover's Corners, a 1987 musical adaptation with music and lyrics by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt was performed at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
- Our Town,[29] a 1989 telecast of a Lincoln Center stage production starring Spalding Gray, Frances Conroy, Penelope Ann Miller, and Eric Stoltz.
- In 1994, Philip Jerry choreographed a balletic adaptation set to the music of Aaron Copland which the American Repertory Ballet in Princeton, New Jersey, has performed in the decades since its premiere.[30]
- OT: Our Town, a 2002 documentary by Scott Hamilton Kennedy about a production of the play by Dominguez High School in Compton, California.
- Our Town, a 2003 television film adaptation starring Paul Newman as the Stage Manager. It was shown on PBS as part of Masterpiece Theatre after first being shown on the cable channel Showtime. It was filmed at the Booth Theatre in Manhattan, where it played on Broadway in 2002.[20]
- Our Town (opera), an operatic version of the play with music by Ned Rorem.
- Wonder has a mention of the play, but only the beginning and end scenes are depicted.
- The style of the play is mimicked in the 2003 Lars Von Trier film Dogville.
- A performance of Our Town is central to Ann Patchett's 2023 novel Tom Lake.
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