It opened with a bang! The original production of The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)—the play that won Thornton Wilder his second Pulitizer Prize for Drama (1938’s Our Town won him his first)—starred Talullah Bankhead, Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, and Montgomery Clift. This time-traveling play defies description, though the same family of four appears in all three acts to face various end-of-the-world scenarios. (Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green tried to make a musical version of the play in the early 1960s. They gave up.) Now a new production opens at Lincoln Center, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, and with additional material contributed by the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. —Laura Jacobs