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Monday, January 19, 2026

‘I can’t waste this’: Michael Sheen on his riskiest role yet – saving Wales’s national theatre

Stage | The Guardian: Since Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town in 1938, it is said that not a day has passed when the Pulitzer prize-winning show hasn’t been performed. “Every time I read it, I come away with the feeling of having been woken up,” says Michael Sheen, star of the upcoming touring production of Wilder’s play about a close-knit community in small-town America. “With this urgent sense of ‘I have to not waste this.’”

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