The Skin of Our Teeth
Closed 2h 30m
The Skin of Our Teeth
78

The Skin of Our Teeth NYC Reviews and Tickets

78%
(89 Ratings)
Positive
87%
Mixed
11%
Negative
2%
Members say
Ambitious, Great staging, Relevant, Thought-provoking, Great acting

About the Show

Theatre for a New Audience stages Thorton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning, tragicomic paean to human perseverance and indestructibility.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (89)

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403 Reviews | 55 Followers
70
Ambitious, Dated, Disappointing, Excruciating, Slow

See it if you want to be able to say that you saw a production of this play--it's not produced all that often and it is considered a classic.

Don't see it if you want an emotionally involving show. I found it boring despite the sometimes frenetic pace, the fancy set and the hard-working actors.

97 Reviews | 16 Followers
68
Clever, Well acted, Resonant, Disappointing

See it if you like Thorton Wilder, no matter how his plays are directed

Don't see it if you remember Robert Woodruff's production and believe that this could be much grittier, relevant, biting.

151 Reviews | 17 Followers
67
Banal, Great staging, Dizzying, Disappointing, Confusing

See it if You like plays with amazing set design. I thought the sets were amazing.

Don't see it if You want to be able to truly understand what is happening in the show. I was very confused and I didn’t stick around for the third act.

367 Reviews | 40 Followers
62
Confusing, Disappointing, Dizzying, Quirky, Indulgent

See it if you are curious about staging a play unwieldy at best and a missed opportunity to be truly relevant. The concept is awesome; execution not

Don't see it if Loud is not youe idea of relevant and reason is your way of communicating. the characters never truly evolve and it is more performance

277 Reviews | 38 Followers
40
Ambitious, Disappointing, Excruciating, Intelligent, Resonant

See it if highfalutin explorations of archetypes, the exonerating and ineffable power of the human imagination, and cyclical Ages of Man is your cuppa

Don't see it if histrionic overacting, ponderous first halfs, fourth-wall breaking, or jumbled surrealist action (but not thoughts) are not your cuppa. Read more

31 Reviews | 3 Followers
90
Ambitious, Clever, Overrated, Quirky

See it if You like this play, it is a very good production of this play, and Sabine is great. Tiana's is always intriguing

Don't see it if You want consistency in acting across a production, or you don't like this play.

43 Reviews | 34 Followers
88
Absorbing, Great staging, Great acting, Great writing, Relevant

See it if You want to see a refreshing take of a classic play at the perfect moment for a revival. Beautiful acted, directed and designed.

Don't see it if you want to see a piece of escapist theater. While entertaining, it really makes you think about the current state of affairs. Read more

46 Reviews | 7 Followers
88
Thought-provoking, Epic, Edgy, Ambitious, Relevant

See it if you want to see a relevant, well-directed and performed classic of the American theater that is more timely than ever.

Don't see it if you don't like magical realism-type plays.

Critic Reviews (21)