Rose Szabo has created a monstrous, dysfunctional family far worse than anything Charles Addams ever dreamed up — and young daughter Eleanor may be the worst of them. She just doesn't know why.

Three hours with two intermissions. At the Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 W 65th Street. The set is the real star of “The Skin of Our Teeth,” Thornton Wilder’s geezer of a play that opened ...