Thornton Wilder

Off-Broadway Review: “The Seat of Our Pants” at the Public’s Newman Theater (Closed Sunday, December 7, 2025)

November 24, 2025 | Off-Broadway > | "Seat of Our Pants", "The Skin of Our Teeth", Alex Luong, Allison Ann Kelly, Ally Bonino, Amina Faye, Andy Grotelueschen, Angela Travino, Ben Beckley, Bill Buell, Caroline Englander, Cole Burden, costume design by Kaye Voyce, Damon Daunno, Daniel Kluger, David Roberts, David Ryan Smith, Ethan Lipton, fight direction by Jordan Laroya, Geena Quintos, Joan Marcus, Kelly Belarmino, Leigh Silverman, León Ramos Tak, lighting design by Lap Chi Chu, Micaela Diamond, Michael Lepore, Nat Lopez, Nathan Koci, New York Theatre Reviews, Newman Theater, Prop management by Claire M. Kavanah, Public Theater, Ruth E. Sternberg, Ruthie Ann Miles, Sarah Lunnie, scenic design by Lee Jellinek, Shelley Miles serves as stage manager, Shuler Hensley, sound design by Drew Levy, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Thornton Wilder, Tomoko Akaboshi

Thornton Wilder wrote “The Skin of Our Teeth” in 1942 as the world burned. Ethan Lipton’s musical adaptation “The Seat of Our Pants,” now at the Public Theater, arrives as history repeats itself with eerie precision. The Announcer’s opening number catalogs our contemporary disasters—”We made it through the recession-pandemic-wildfire-oligarchy by the seat of our pants”—and suddenly Wilder’s absurdist chronicle of…

Broadway Review: “Our Town” at the Barrymore Theatre (Closed Sunday, January 19, 2025)

December 1, 2024 | Broadway, Music > | "Our Town", Anthony Michael Lopez, as well as Ephie Aardema Sarnak, Bill Timoney, Billy Eugene Jones as “Dr. Gibbs”, Bobby Daye, Bryonha Marie, casting by Jim Carnahan, costume design Dede Ayite, Daniel Rader, Donald Webber, Doron JéPaul, Ephraim Sykes as “George Gibbs”, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Greg Wood, Hagan Oliveras, Hair, Heather Ayers, Jim Parsons as the Narrator, John McGinty, Joseph Verlezza, Jr. as “Simon Stimson”, Julie Halston as “Mrs. Soames”, Kate Wilson as the dialect coach, Katie Holmes as “Mrs. Webb”, Kenny Leon, Kevyn Morrow, lighting design by Allen Lee Hughes, Matthew Elijah Webb, Michelle Wilson as “Mrs. Gibbs”, New York Theatre Reviews, Nimene Sierra Wureh, Noah Pyzik, Ricardo Vázquez, Richard Thomas as “Mr. Webb”, Safiya Kaijya Harris, scenic design by Beowulf Boritt, Shyla Lefner, Sky Smith, sound design by Justin Ellington, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Thornton Wilder, wig & makeup design by J. Jared Janas, Willa Bost, Zoey Deutch as “Emily Webb”

“Our Town” by Thorton Wilder is recognized as a classic, and the revival now playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, directed by Kenny Leon is the perfect example of why it has achieved that status. It is timeless, appealing to a multi-generational audience, and allows each theatergoer to recognize their own connection to the content. Not only will…

Off-Broadway Review: “Skin of our Teeth” at Theatre for New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center

March 3, 2017 | Off-Broadway, sanctuary city, you will die > | Arin Arbus, Brooklyn, Fredric March, Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Pulitzer Prize, Skin of Our Teeth, Tallulah Bankhead, Theatre for New Audience, Thornton Wilder

If ever there was an allegorical play, this is it. Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” was written in 1942, won the Pulitzer Prize, had two apparently great productions on Broadway – starring the likes of Mary Martin, Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March and Helen Hayes—then poorly received ones, and subsequently was deemed extremely difficult to pull off. Well, Theatre…