Based on Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, the surrealist musical follows one nuclear family across thousands of years and three apocalypses.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.
In early times, most humans barely paid attention to weather calamities because the region was so sparsely populated.
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Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
Madonna has made music through various calamities that at the time felt world-ending — wars, political unrest, financial collapse — so the terrors of 2026 don’t seem to faze her.
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