The Skin Of Our Teeth

When I re-read Thornton Wilder’s amazing play while preparing for one of Remy Bumppo’s adult-education classes about three years ago, I couldn’t believe how the ideas sprang off the page, both as playfully meta-theatrical and as urgently relevant and contemporary…

During the first months of 2017, I was directing a production of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn, New York. While we were in rehearsal, a beauty pageant judge was inaugurated President; an…

Below, Dámaso Rodriguez on directing The Skin of Our Teeth at Artists Rep in Portland, OR in conversation with Tappan Wilder of the Thornton Wilder Family.