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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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SUCH THINGS ONLY HAPPEN IN BOOKS Plays The Clurman Theatre 10/6-11/14
by BWW News Desk - Oct 6, 2009


Five years after receiving a Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival of a Play for their production of Pullman Car Hiawatha, two short plays by Thornton Wilder, Keen Company (Artistic Director Carl Forsman, Executive Director Wayne Kelton) kicks of their tenth anniversary season with the New York professional premiere of Such Things Only Happen in Books, an evening of short plays by Thornton Wilder directed by Carl Forsman and Jonathan Silverstein.

SUCH THINGS ONLY HAPPEN IN BOOKS Plays The Clurman Theatre 10/6-11/14
by Gabrielle Sierra - Sep 11, 2009


Five years after receiving a Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival of a Play for their production of Pullman Car Hiawatha, two short plays by Thornton Wilder, Keen Company (Artistic Director Carl Forsman, Executive Director Wayne Kelton) kicks of their tenth anniversary season with the New York professional premiere of Such Things Only Happen in Books, an evening of short plays by Thornton Wilder directed by Carl Forsman and Jonathan Silverstein.

Stage West Presents Thornton Wilder's THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH 9/3
by BWW News Desk - Sep 3, 2009


A wife who looks after the home. A husband who is an inventor. Two growing children. A knowing and unreliable maid, and two pets.

Stage West Presents Thornton Wilder's THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH 9/3
by Gabrielle Sierra - Aug 25, 2009


A wife who looks after the home. A husband who is an inventor. Two growing children. A knowing and unreliable maid, and two pets.

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH Opens At Whole Backstage Theater 5/1
by BWW News Desk - May 1, 2009


The Whole Backstage Theatre presents an American classic, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'The Skin of Our Teeth.' Ignoring the limits of time and space, a host of characters and three acts are used to review the history of mankind.

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH Opens At Whole Backstage Theater 5/1
by Gabrielle Sierra - Apr 1, 2009


The Whole Backstage Theatre presents an American classic, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'The Skin of Our Teeth.' Ignoring the limits of time and space, a host of characters and three acts are used to review the history of mankind.

All About Us: Missing Its Wisdom Teeth
by Jan Nargi - Apr 24, 2007


The Joseph Stein/Kander & Ebb musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 'The Skin of Our Teeth' lacks the sharp bite of the ground-breaking Pulitzer Prize-winning original

Casting Announced for Intiman Theatre's Skin of Our Teeth
by BWW News Desk - Apr 16, 2007


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

Kander and Ebb's All About Us to Play CT in April '07
by BWW News Desk - Aug 15, 2006


The Kander and Ebb musical All About Us, based on the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth, will be presented at the Westport Country Playhouse in CT from April 10th through 28th, 2007.

After the Fall
by Adrienne Onofri - Nov 26, 2003


With 'Omnium Gatherum' closing this weekend, Adrienne reflects on 9/11 plays and speculates on why none has emerged as an unqualified critical and commercial success.

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 3 productions including Broadway which opened in 1942, Broadway which opened in 1955 and Broadway which opened in 1975.
What awards has The Skin of Our Teeth been nominated for?
The Skin of Our Teeth has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (The Pulitzer Prize) for Thornton Wilder.
What awards has The Skin of Our Teeth won?
The Skin of Our Teeth has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (The Pulitzer Prize) for Thornton Wilder.

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