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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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The Color Purple The Musical
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (6/25 - 6/30) | |
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Witness for the Prosecution
New Hazlett Theater (5/3 - 5/12) | |
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Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (7/9 - 7/14) | |
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School of Rock: The Musical
Geyer Performing Arts Center (5/16 - 5/19) | |
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A...My Name is Still Alice
New Hazlett Theater (5/17 - 5/26) | |
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West Side Story
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (6/11 - 6/16) | |
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The Kite Runner
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (5/7 - 5/12) | |
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