A.R.T./M.X.A.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training presents THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  March 6, 2010
CONTACT: Kati Mitchell 617-495-2668

A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training
presents
Thornton Wilder’s
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
directed by Scott Zigler
March 19-27
OBERON

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training presents The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, directed by Scott Zigler, and performed by the Institute Class of 2010. The production is presented at OBERON, 2  Arrow Street, corner of Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square, Cambridge.

Performances are on March 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, and 27 at 7 p.m. Doors and bar will open at 6:30 pm

New Jersey, 1942 -- Garden State, or Garden of Eden?  Join George and Maggie Antrobus, happily married 5,000 years, as they survive Ice Ages, Great Floods, and Apocalypses by the skin of their teeth.  Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer prize-winning philosophical comedy reminds us that, in spite of ecological or economic disaster, humankind will always build again.

Director Scott Zigler is the Associate Director of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.  His credits at the A.R.T. include Romance, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Copenhagen, Absolution, Animals and Plants, The Cripple of Inishmaan, the world premiere of David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood, and he was the Assistant Director of Mamet’s The Cryptogram at the A.R.T.  and directed The Old Neighborhood on Broadway, the national tour of Mamet’s Oleanna, as well as the theatrical trailer for the film version of that play.

Ticket prices are $10 for the general public; $5 for students, and seniors, free to A.R.T. subscribers.  They can be purchased at the Loeb Drama Center or by calling the A.R.T. Box Office at (617) 547-8300 or online at www.americanrepertorytheater.org.