The Skin of Our Teeth Revival 2017

Ages: 6+
Opened: February 14, 2017
Closing: March 19, 2017

The Skin of Our Teeth - 2017 - Off-Broadway History , Info & More

Theatre for a New Audience
262 Ashland Pl Brooklyn, NY 11217

Thornton Wilder won three Pulitzers — the only author to win for a novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and two plays, Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, which was written just before America entered WWII. The play is about fortitude and the fate of humanity, both at the moment Wilder wrote it and this moment now and at millions of earlier moments over thousands of years. And in a thousand years, if people are still on earth, the play will be about them too.

The Skin of Our Teeth takes place in a prehistoric world and the New Jersey suburbs. The Antrobus family–George and Maggie, their children, Gladys and Henry, and Sabina, a maid who is also George’s mistress–survive the Ice Age, the Flood, and war. Combining tragedy with comedy, wit, intelligence, imagination, and scenic surprise, the play, as Francis Ferguson wrote, is a “marriage of Plato and Groucho Marx.

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The Skin of Our Teeth FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What productions of The Skin of Our Teeth have there been?
The Skin of Our Teeth has had 1 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 2017.
What awards has The Skin of Our Teeth been nominated for?
The Skin of Our Teeth has been nominated for Directing at the Obie Awards for Arin Arbus.
What awards has The Skin of Our Teeth won?
The Skin of Our Teeth has won the Directing award (Obie Awards) for Arin Arbus.

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