Kenny Leon, the creative force behind a new revival of “Our Town” on Broadway this fall, wasn’t always a fan of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play. ”There was no diversity in the town,” the Tony-winning director recalls thinking after seeing a student production in high school. “I just wasn’t drawn to it. I didn’t see the universal things in it.”
Years later, in 2002, when he founded his nonprofit True Colors Theatre Company, his first move was to make “Our Town” look more like most towns in America. “I’m gonna take ‘Our Town’ and put a lot of people in it — different races, different cultures, across genders, everything,” Leon
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