Teeth
1 hour and 55 minutes with no intermission
Teeth - 2024 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
Playwrights Horizons
416 West 42nd St.(between 9th & 10th Aves) New York, NY 10036
Dawn O’Keefe is an evangelical Christian teen with a powerful secret not even she understands – when men violate her, her body bites back. Literally. From Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winner Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) and Anna K. Jacobs (POP!), Teeth, based on the cult classic film of the same name, is a fierce, rapturous, and savagely entertaining new musical crackling with irrepressible desire and ancient rage – a dark comedy conjuring the legend of one girl whose sexual curse is also her salvation.
Teeth - 2024 - Off-Broadway Cast
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Teeth, Where Purity Culture Leaves Bite Marks
6 / 10
While it’s tempting to go big and brazen, Teeth loses something as it bursts its seams. But what it’s got is still, in so many moments, lava-hot and canines-sharp. Underneath the fire and blood, the mythical battles and severed dicks — inside the promise ring and the cheap paneled walls of the church rec room — is the real horror show.
Teeth Review
6 / 10
But “Teeth,” opening tonight at Playwrights Horizons, seems likely to turn off at least as many theatergoers as it would draw in: It’s deemed “appropriate for audiences ages 17+,” and it’s impossible to see how It could be otherwise, given that it’s an adaptation of a 2007 horror movie of the same name about a woman who has lethal teeth in her vagina. What’s most disappointing about “Teeth” is not its excesses, although these are deliberately in-your-face — the aggressively vulgar lyrics, the gory severed penises – but how the various elements of the show don’t completely hold together.
Teeth History
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Teeth - 2024 Off-Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | Michael R. Jackson |
| 2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical | Steven Pasquale |
| 2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Michael R. Jackson |
| 2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | Teeth |
| 2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Sarah Benson |
| 2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Musical | Teeth |
| 2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Anna K. Jacobs |
| 2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Costume Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Enver Chakartash |
| 2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Alyse Alan Louis |
| 2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | Teeth |
| 2024 | The Lortels | Outstanding Choreographer | Raja Feather Kelly |
| 2024 | The Lortels | Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical | Steven Pasquale |
| 2024 | The Lortels | Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical | Alyse Alan Louis |
| 2024 | The Lortels | Outstanding Musical | Teeth |
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