Most great plays are about death, but Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” is the most likely American play of the 20th century to have you walking out of the theater determined to do things a little differently in your day-to-day existence — most importantly,

The new production of the canonical American play, directed by Kenny Leon, sees the classic through through a contemporary lens.

Whatever else Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (Barrymore Theatre, booking to Jan. 19) is, it isn’t as honeyed a classic as it is sometimes imagined. Kenny Leon’s celebrity-filled Broadway revival is a brisk,