‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ Broadway Review: Thornton Wilder Classic Needs a More Radical Update
The current Broadway season has offered a few good revivals of plays and a couple of great revivals: Paul Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive” and Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s “Lackawanna Blues.” That winning streak ended on Monday with the opening of “The Skin of Our Teeth” at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont.
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A Glorious “The Skin of Our Teeth” Invites Us to Reflect on How Far We’ve Come
The events that take place in Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth practically cover the entire history of humankind, from the prehistoric ice age to 1950s New Jersey, to the immediate present. Thanks to Lileana Blain-Cruz’s inspired directorial vision and playwright Brandon Jacob Jenkins’ new material, an already prophetic text turns into something that’s […]
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This ‘Funny Girl’ Has Laughs but No Lushness
Before we get to my thoughts on the Beanie Feldstein-led revival of Funny Girl, there are some things I have to confess. I used to love Glee. I loved Lea Michele on Glee. I loved Lea Michele as Rachel Berry as Fanny Brice in a (fictional but prescient) Broadway revival of Funny Girl on Glee. […]
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