‘Inherit the Wind’ presented by Theatre Northeast

Theatre Northeast will present the classic courtroom drama, “Inherit the Wind,” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, in the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Northeast Texas Community College. Performances will run April 25-27 at 7:30 p.m. and April 28 at 2:05 p.m.
Described as “…one of the truly great American dramas of this century,” “Inherit the Wind” has as its genesis the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. Two great lawyers face off in a small-town courtroom with the eyes of an entire nation upon them. The accused? A science teacher. His crime? Teaching evolution in a rural high school.

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