Last night, the second Broadway revival of the 1955 drama Inherit the Wind opened. Heading the cast are Tony Award winner Christopher Plummer as the brilliant defense attorney Henry Drummond…
…fellow Tony winner Brian Dennehy as the blustery prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady…
… Denis O’Hare, yet another Tony winner, as the muckraking journalist E.K. Hornbeck…
…Broadway stalwart Byron Jennings as the impassioned Reverend Jeremiah Brown…
…and former Tony nominee Beth Fowler, who gives a lovely performance as Brady’s devoted wife.
Here’s the show’s director, Doug Hughes, who won practically every award on the planet for his direction of Doubt.
The opening night guests included playwright John Patrick Shanley, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Doubt…
…actress Margaret Colin, nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her work in Shanley’s Defiance and set to return to Broadway in June in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Old Acquaintance…
…Lily Rabe (right), who will also star in Old Acquaintance, seen here with her celebrated mother, Jill Clayburgh, a Lucille Lortel Award nominee for her work in The Busy World is Hushed…
…the fabulous Blair Brown, who co-starred with Clayburgh earlier this season in The Clean House…
…stage and screen favorites (and longtime couple) Bobby Cannavale and Annabella Sciorra…
….Sciorra’s co-star from The Sopranos, Emmy Award winner Edie Falco…
…the irrepressible Joan Rivers, a former Tony nominee herself (for Sally Marr… and her escorts)…
…the great Broadway and cabaret singer Liz Callaway, who starred in such shows as Baby, Cats, and Miss Saigon…