In one of the most original and provocative plays ever composed by an American writer, Thornton Wilder uses the seemingly ordinary events in an ordinary turn-of-the-century New Hampshire town to give his audience rare insight into life's most extraordinary miracles and tragedies: birth and death; inspiring generosity and corrosive gossip; love and loss.  Each of life's moments is extraordinary, Wilder warns us.  We must savor each of our moments before all are gone forever.