Review: A New Jersey Family Survives an Ice Age and More in The Skin of Our Teeth

Yet The Skin of Our Teeth retains an urgency worth paying attention to. A couple of changes have been made from Wilder’s 80-year-old script: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has made modest additions to the text (works of bell hooks and Maya Angelou receive mention) to offset the play’s relevant but musty quotes from the likes of Aristotle and Spinoza. And in an inspired take, Blain-Cruz has cast the Antrobuses as a Black family, which, like other families of color, has survived through the centuries despite the destructive societal forces that have conspired to break it apart.