We close out The Skin’s 75th Anniversary Year, pinching ourselves that we are still alive to celebrate this milestone, with a few quotes: one from the author and others from those who love the play and are brave enough to produce and write about it.
Read MoreSDC Journal asked director Kate Powers to speak with several directors who have worked on the play,
Read MoreThe Wilder Family and Samuel French present a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel, director Laurie McCants and actress Linda Powell about the influence of Thornton Wilder’s one-acts on their work.
Read MoreBette Midler is extending a complex theatrical legacy that stretches back more than 175 years—one in which twentieth–century American playwright Thornton Wilder is the pivotal figure.
Read MoreFor the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Douglas, Arizona was a place to “refresh the wells” and drive into the sunset.
Read MoreSeveral admirers of the play spoke recently about why “The Skin of Our Teeth” endures, what makes it problematic and why this could be a ripe time for its resurgence. Here are edited excerpts from those interviews.
Read MoreThis past summer, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival produced Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN with a company of 3 professional actors and 36 citizen actors from towns dotted around the theatre’s performance-space home in Garrison, NY.
Read MoreDámaso Rodriguez on directing The Skin of Our Teeth at Artists Rep in Portland, OR
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