The middle of July is bringing the heat with a series of comedy events, 80s music from Bristol Riverside Theatre, and a virtual production from Quintessence. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
Josh, John, and Chris disagree again about Thorton Wilder. Then, they chart a path forward.
Two American dramedies, one classic and the other newly minted, affirm humanity's indomitable ability to renew in the face of chaos. The post From Massachusetts: The Skin of Our Teeth and Te…
Westfield News Group Review: Berkshire Theatre Group's The Skin of Our Teeth starring Harriet Harris.
For a play that requires lots of scenery chewing, The Skin of Our Teeth has sadly lost much of its bite
The 2019 season also includes the previously announced world-premiere musical Rock and Roll Man: The Alan Freed Story.
Millennial Notes Thornton Wilder Imagines Hilarious Apocalypse by Tyler Jeffreys If the audience is laughing…they're listening.    "V. Cate (playwright) You've heard that laug…
Thornton Wilder's Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.
Thu, June 14 thru Sat, June 16 @ Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts, presented by Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts
The WTG production succeeds largely because it heightens the absurdity of a play that takes a comic look at catastrophe.
Thornton Wilder's shaggy 1942 play renders chaos as timeless.
Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth serves as a mammoth of a play, covering time between the ice age to the post-apocalyptic future. Creating this hilarious, poignant, and heart-warming …
At the end of this clever, engaging play by Thorton Wilder (Pulitzer Prize, 1943), I was left wondering if this had been the genesis of the idea for Dr. Who. While there is no proof of this,…
Thornton Wilder’s allegorical paean to humanity’s survival “by the skin of our teeth” has itself become a marvel of endurance. First staged in 1942, when times were d…
You know things are going to start getting weird when the woolly mammoth and the dinosaur show up at the front door. Indeed, Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth may be a classic, but …
This revival of Thornton Wilder's strange and strangely prescient play feels as bizarre as it does familiar.
Global climate change, cataclysmic hurricanes, the threat of world war " with headlines like those, who wouldn't want to escape to the theater? Kidding aside, Remy Bumppo has picked a fine t…
THORNTON WILDER'S SURVIVAL SAGA It's a play for all seasons and all sorrows: Writing during the uncertainty of a world war, Thornton Wilder intended The Skin of Our Teeth to be a three…
Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" with its benign belief in the resilience of the human condition is unlike any other American play you are likely to see. Both heavily influenced by …
Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth premiered in 1942, just 10 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor launched the U.S. into World War II. Clearly tapping into the zeitgeist of the mome…
by JK Clarke Humankind has been plagued with apocalyptic visions and foreboding since the dawn of civilization. Earliest organized groups of humans created…
by Samuel L. Leiter Thornton Wilder's 1942, Pulitzer Prize-winning "tragicomedy" The Skin of Our Teeth has received only two Broadway revivals (1955 and 1975) and a Central Park staging in 1…
A stunningly staged, timely revival of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning absurdist saga. . . Read More
Theatre for a New Audience mounts a massive revival of Thornton Wilder's epic play about everything.
The Theater for a New Audience's revival of Thornton Wilder's apocalyptic comedy feels surprisingly appropriate for a world threatened by climate issues and packed with refugees.