Thornton Wilder, on more than one occasion, played the stage manager in this play of his
The Stage Manager's first and most obvious function is to provide exposition of... [DOC] [TLE] THEATER VIEW - The Darker Shores of Thornton Wilder - NYTimes ... [PAR] Dec 11, 1988 ... As Mr. Schneider recalled in his autobiography, Wilder had seen ... two full-length 
plays, several adaptations and a number of one-acts - he was a more cynical and 
less whimsical dramatist than is generally acknowledged.