Review: INHERIT THE WIND at Theatre Memphis
by Kevin Shaw - Jan 24, 2025
During the 2023-2024 school year, more than 10,000 books were banned in public schools across the United States-a nearly 200% increase from the previous year. This was the highest number of book bans in a single school year. What was banned? Books about mental health, suicide, substance abuse, sexual well-being, and puberty were axed.
INHERIT THE WIND Reading Comes to North Coast Repertory Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Oct 11, 2024
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee is a gripping courtroom drama that brings history to life with a powerful clash of ideas. Based on the famous Scopes 'Monkey' Trial, this play pits science against faith in a battle over the teaching of evolution in schools.
Review: INHERIT THE WIND at Goodman Theatre
by Rachel Weinberg - Sep 24, 2024
Goodman Theatre’s season-opening production of INHERIT THE WIND centers on a fictionalized version of the 1925 “Scopes Monkey” trial — at its heart, a debate on creationism vs. evolutionism. Though playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee make it clear they’re on the side of evolution, it’s still a treat to watch this production’s Matthew Harrison Brady (Alexander Gemignani) and Henry Drummond (Harry Lennix) go head-to-head in a verbal spar.
Photos/Video: INHERIT THE WIND Extended At Goodman Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 24, 2024
The jury of its peers finds Inherit the Wind at Goodman Theatre worthy of a one-week extension, adding six more performances of Henry Godinez’s major revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s 1955 classic courtroom drama. See photos and video highlights from the production.