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Completed by the author less than a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, The Skin of our Teeth (1942) broke from established theatrical conventions and walked off with the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Combining farce, burlesque, and satire, and elements of the comic strip, Thornton Wilder depicts an Everyman Family as it narrowly escapes one end-of-the-world disaster after another, from the Ice Age to flood to war.
Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5,000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve: the two Antrobus children, Gladys (perfect in every way, of course) and Henry (who likes to throw rocks and was formerly known as Cain); and their garrulous maid, Sabina (the eternal seductress), who takes it upon herself to break out of character and interrupt the course of the drama at every opportunity (“I don’t understand a word of this play!”)
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Smooth Summer Sessions: Paul Brown with Sharon Rae North
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Million Dollar Quartet
Pittsburgh Musical Theater (4/18 - 5/12)
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School of Rock: The Musical
Geyer Performing Arts Center (5/16 - 5/19) | |
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Seussical
Byham Theater (7/30 - 8/4) | |
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West Side Story
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (6/11 - 6/16) | |
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Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (7/9 - 7/14) | |
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Smooth Summer Sessions: Christian De Mesones
The Youngstown Playhouse (7/12 - 7/12) | |
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