Inherit the Wind News

" TRACY ," a one-man play about the life of Spencer Tracy, has been rescheduled for July 17 and 18 at 8 p.m., and July 19 at 2 p.m. in downtown New Bern's Athens Theatre.

Nunn will direct Kevin Spacey in Inherit the Wind , the first of two productions announced for the Old Vic's new season.

Kevin Spacey, artistic director of London's Old Vic, will launch his sixth season at the helm by starring in a new production of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's 1955 play Inherit the Wind , which begins performances Sept.

Duration: 2:8:11 CC Taken largely from the transcripts of the actual "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925, this movie features Oscar nominee Spencer Tracy as defense attorney Henry Drummond , and Frederic March as prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady .

Veteran actor Paul White returns to the New Bern Civic Theatre in a familiar format for him - a one-man play.

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It's as predictable as a hangover. And nearly as nauseating. The news telecasts -- morning, noon, evening and night, national and local -- now open with the latest someone-done-someone-a-big-pile-of-wrong song.

By JOELLE LACHANCE Contributing Writer Not many people would title a play after a passage from the Bible, though that did not hinder Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

The Internet is indeed a wonder of our age. Why, just last night, while watching the DVD of Inherit the Wind , I was able to simultaskically discover that Fredric March and Florence Eldridge, who play Matthew and Sarah Brady, were married in real life and often performed together in movies and on stage.

"He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind." Proverbs 11:29 In the 1960 movie "Inherit the Wind," there's a marvelous statement by actor Spencer Tracy in which Tracy is asked if he finds anything holy.

Jimmy Boyd has passed away at the age of 70. But with his best known work, he'll forever be about twelve years old: Boyd sang the Christmas standard "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". He also appeared in movies ...

Jimmy Boyd, a singer best known for recording the Christmas novelty hit "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" in 1952 when he was 13, died Saturday.

The Robert H. Jackson Center will host a series of films about lawyers during March as part of The Big Read.

Courtroom theatrics: 'Inherit' actor preps for trial By Melanie Lallier, Tribune Staff Writer With 80 years and more than 30 performances behind him, Hobart Smith is not ready to stop.

Veteran Announcer Bill Henry interviews actor Frederic March in 1973. WNPR's Morning Edition rummages through the Connecticut Basement Tapes and brings you a voice that is well known to WNPR listeners.

Conceived as a "behind the scenes" radio play, "Monkey Trial" has been a staple production of the L.A. Theatre Works for many years and will be staged in Athens - with Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner leading ...

The 87-year-old had been diagnosed with cancer in late November and died at his Malibu, Calif., home, said Steve Whitmore.

January 29, 2009 Issue Spencer Tracy and Fredric March starred in the 1960 film version of Inherit the Wind, a play based on the 1925 Scopes 'Monkey' Trial in Dayton, Tenn.

Everywhere Ed Asner goes with 'The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial,' he seems to find confirmation of his belief that he 'can't stop preaching this play.' In Green Bay, Wis., for example, during a talk-back ...

Genre entertainments invariably rake in more money than heavyweight film dramas -- that's what they're made for.