The Front Page (1986)

Written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Directed by Jerry Zaks
Cast: Amanda Carlin, Ronn Carroll, Jerome Dempsey, Patrick Garner, Julie Hagerty, Ed Lauter, Philip LeStrange, John Lithgow

The play's single set is the dingy press room of Chicago's Criminal Courts Building, overlooking the gallows behind the Cook County Jail. Reporters from most of the city's newspapers are passing the time with poker and pungent wisecracks about the news of the day. Soon they will witness the hanging of Earl Williams, a white man and supposed Communist revolutionary convicted of killing a black policeman.

Theater: Vivian Beaumont Theater · Broadway
Closed: January 11, 1987

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The Front Page closed on January 11, 1987.