The Skin of Our Teeth at University of Puget Sound

Authors

• Adolph Green
• Betty Comden
• Cesar Alvarez
• Leonard Bernstein
• Thornton Wilder
• Wayne Horovitz

The Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened on October 15, 1942 at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1942. It was produced by Michael Myerberg and directed by Elia Kazan. The play is a three-part allegory about the life of mankind, centering around the Antrobus family of the fictional town of Excelsior, New Jersey.