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.
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'The Bridge of San Luis Rey,' adapted from the 1927 Thornton Wilder novel, at Two River Theater Company in New Jersey.
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The Village Voice reviews Theatre for a New Audience's production of The Skin of Our Teeth.
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Two rarely seen one-act plays that serve as previews of ‘Our Town’.
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Janie McCauley reviews the Bridge Records CD release of the original English language version of Paul Hindemith's final opera, “The Long Christmas Dinner”," with a libretto by Thornton Wilder.
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Program notes from the Yale School of Drama's recent production of The Skin of Our Teeth
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As the playwright reminded fans over and over, Our Town is not about small town life but Life itself – “it’s about everywhere.” And “everywhere” would certainly seem to describe the rich diversity of the play’s sources, as well as the variety of locations where the playwright did his work.
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Who has nudged you lately, at your water cooler or watering hole, to ask: “Have you read Thornton Wilder’s prose masterpiece, The Bridge of San Luis Rey?”
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After a delay of sixty-seven years, audiences will have an opportunity to witness a "new" adaptation of a theatrical classic by a team of gifted American playwrights who stand tall for Restoration drama, Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig, who both separately and now as one explore ways to stage this classic drama for the 21st century audience.
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