Park Slope actor, Charlotte Maier, plays Mrs. Krebs in the Broadway revival of  Inherit the Wind opening Thursday night at the Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street in Manhattan.

OSFO, Hepcat and I went to a preview Monday night and really enjoyed the show. Christopher Plummber plays the Clarence Darrow character and Brian Dennehy plays the character based on William Jennings Bryan. Dennis O’Hare is teriffic in the role based on H.L. Mencken. The following is from Wikipedia’s entry on the play:

Inherit the Wind is a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which opened on Broadway in January 1955, and a 1960 Hollywood film based on the play. It is currently being brought back onto Broadway in a revival. The play’s title comes from Proverbs 11:29, which in the King James Bible reads:

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind:

and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart

Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes Trial (the "Monkey" Trial), which resulted in Scopes‘ conviction for teaching Charles Darwin‘s theory of evolution to a high school science class, contrary to a Tennessee state law that mandated the teaching of a form of creationism.
The fictional characters of Matthew Harrison Brady, Henry Drummond,
Bertram Cates and E. K. Hornbeck correspond to the historical figures
of William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, John Scopes, and H.L. Mencken, respectively.

Despite numerous similarities between the play and history, the play was not intended as a documentary-drama about the Scopes trial, but as a warning about the evils of McCarthyism, which some see as one of the darkest moments in American history. The play has been hailed as one of the great American plays of the 20th century, and its themes of religious belief, religious tolerance, and freedom of thought resonate down to the present day.