NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE -- Imagine Thornton Wilder's Our Town infected by a love bug, and you've pretty much got the idea of Wilder's The Matchmaker.

One needn't be a forensic detective to see Wilder's hand in this giddy celebration of love and life, for the playwright's fingerprints are all over the scene of the crime -- in this case Yonkers and New York City, circa 1880, recreated on the stage of the Shaw Festival's Festival Theatre by designer William Schmuck, where The Matchmaker opened last night.
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