The Goodman Theatre’s 2024-25 season is off to a smart and savvy start with a timely revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s “Inherit the Wind.” Director Henry Godinez’s incisive and inclusive ...

Inherit the Wind, a powerful courtroom drama written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, isn't a musical, but it's a gripping play nonetheless. Here's the lowdown: Debuting in 1955, the play ...

Inherit the Wind is a play written in 1955 about an actual trial which challenged teaching Darwinism in schools. Famously known as the “Scopes Monkey Trial,” (the defendant was John T. Scopes who was ...

Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee did not aim for a perfect representation of the 1925 Scopes trial in Inherit the Wind — character and town names differ from those recorded in textbooks, ...