If the play was a modern parable (written as it was during the McCarthy trials), it is one again - as 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the ...
Inherit the Wind is commercial entertainment at its best. A cleverly constructed play, it sticks close to the ground, to subjects that all the members of a reasonably enlightened audience can agree on ...
Sometimes theater is so explosive that the audience is stunned into silence; sometimes dialogue is so well crafted that the audience is rapt. On those rare occasions when those scenarios occur ...