The Skin of Our Teeth at A Noise Within

The Skin of Our Teeth

A Noise Within
3352 E Foothill Blvd Pasadena

Various cataclysmic events serve as a backdrop for a hilarious and thought-provoking exploration of human resilience by three-time Pulitzer winner Thornton Wilder. After 5,000 years of marriage, George and Maggie Antrobus and their children have faced ice ages, floods and war, but the family perseveres with humor, ingenuity... and a pet dinosaur. This iconic play is a riveting testament to the indomitable spirit of humanity.

Thru - Sep 29, 2024

Show Type: Comedy

Box Office: 626-356-3100

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The Skin of Our Teeth Reviews

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Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

"...I love how the press notes for A Noise Within‘s stupendous revival of Thornton Wilder‘s The Skin of Our Teeth noted a quote from original director Elia Kazan: “I overheard one couple talking as they left the theater. ‘What’s it all about?’ the man complained to his wife. ‘Why, George,’ she said, ‘it’s about love and hate and passion and everything — ever since the world began.’ ‘Well,’ the man said, ‘there must be more to it than that.’ ” Yeah, it’s like that."

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- Tony Frankel

LA Splash - Highly Recommended

"...The cast is talented, skilled, and experienced – and seem to be having some fun with the events in this play. The creative team includes scenic designer Frederica Nascimento, lighting designer Ken Booth, composer and sound designer Robert Oriol, costume designer Garry Lennon, and wig and make-up designer Tony Valdes. It is a pleasure to see this classic play performed again with such skill. THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH will appeal to most audiences, since it covers a lot of territory in three acts (revised into two by A Noise Within), including family, history, relationships, and lots and lots of philosophical intangibles."

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- Elaine Mura

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...It’s hard to imagine a finer revival of Thornton Wilder’s 20th-century American classic The Skin Of Our Teeth than the one now enrapturing audiences at A Noise Within."

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- Steven Stanley

ArtsBeatLA - Highly Recommended

"...Thornton Wilder’s 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, is an assuredly odd duck. It’s eighty-two years old but still seems postmodern with its frequent fourth-wall breaking, playfulness with time and use of characters as symbols. Its main subject is how mankind, represented here by the Antrobus (Greek for human or person) family, muddles through all eras of life – a rather ambitious undertaking. The current production of the show by A Noise Within is superb, as good a version of this play as one is likely to see, with outstanding work from all concerned."

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- Terry Morgan

NoHoArtsDistrict - Highly Recommended

'...The chaos is of course the point. The delight of this gorgeously staged and thrilling theatrical event is in the whimsy and the satire and the lesson. We have no one to rely on but ourselves. Even when our fellow man is the enemy, we must remember his humanity…as well as remember our own. "

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- Samantha Simmonds-Ronceros

Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

"...Theater aficionados know Thornton Wilder as the author of that venerable American drama Our Town, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938. But Wilder also penned The Skin of Our Teeth, a bizarre allegorical comedy that garnered him another Pulitzer in 1943, and is now on display at A Noise Within, under the stellar direction of Julia Rodriquez Elliot and Geoff Elliot."

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- Lovell Estell III

The Skin of Our Teeth at A Noise Within