Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee are best known for two plays, Inherit the Wind ( performed in 1955) and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1970), which together had more than three million copies in print by the end of the 1990s. Although their writing...

It takes two larger-than-life actors to make "Inherit the Wind" really crackle, and its latest Broadway revival has come up with quite a pair _ Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy.The play, a fictionalized retelling by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee of the "Scopes monkey...

City Center, that Moorish palace of entertainment on West 55th Street, is known for its "Encores!" series, concert versions of vintage American musicals. Three are presented each year during the second half of the Broadway theater season.Now the series is branching out with "Encores! Summer...

By George, he's got it.Jefferson Mays will portray Henry Higgins in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," arriving on Broadway in October. No word yet on who will play Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower girl Higgins transforms into a lady. "My Fair Lady," the...

By George, he's got it. Jefferson Mays will portray Henry Higgins in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," arriving on Broadway in October. No word yet on who will play Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower girl Higgins transforms into a lady. "My Fair Lady,"...