Intiman Theatre, recipient of the 2006 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, will continue its 35th season with Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, directed by Artistic Director Bartlett Sher. The Skin of Our Teeth opens at the Intiman Playhouse, 201 Mercer Street at Seattle Center, on Friday, May 4 at 8 pm and runs through Saturday, June 2 at 8 pm. Low-price preview performances are April 28 and 29 and May 1 and 2. The pay-what-you-can performance is May 3. For a complete schedule of performances and special events, please see the Fact Sheet at the end of this release.
"Thornton Wilder received Pulitzer Prizes for both Our Town (produced at Intiman as the first American Cycle production in 2004) and The Skin of Our Teeth, a comedy about a typical American family—in a not-so-typical American family drama. Wilder's allegorical Everyfamily live in a world continuously at risk of being trampled by a dinosaur, threatened by an iceberg, ravaged by a flood and ruined by war," according to press materials. Wilder began writing The Skin of Our Teeth in 1940. Sher's production is set in 1942 (the year the play was completed and produced) and features scenic and costume designs by Michael Yeargan and Catherine Zuber, his Tony Award-winning collaborators on The Light in the Piazza. The creative team also included lighting designer Marcus Doshi, composer and sound designer Peter John Still and dialect coach Alyssa Keene. The stage manager is Lisa Ann Chernoff.Videos