Inherit the Wind

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About This Show

Tony Award winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy star in the legendary 1955 drama, Inherit the Wind, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, and directed by Tony Award-winner Doug Hughes. The play is a fictionalized retelling of the famous 1925 “Monkey Trial” in which science teacher John Scopes was tried and convicted for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution, violating a Tennessee law that forbade teaching any theory that conflicted with the Biblical conception of Divine Creation.

Mr. Dennehy will play the role of attorney Matthew Harrison Brady (based on William Jennings Bryan), and Mr. Plummer will play attorney Henry Drummond (based on Clarence Darrow).

Show Details

Running Time: 2hr 0min (1 intermission)
Dates: Opening Night: April 12, 2007 Final Performance: July 8, 2007

Theatermania Review

| | April 11, 2007
The 1955 play about the Scopes Trial still holds up, despite problematic performances by stars Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy.

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