Plot summary, “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee in 5 Minutes - Book Review

(Thursday, April 21, 1955, 8:00 p.m. EST) — The Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play Inherit the Wind, a story that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials, opened tonight on Broadway at the National Theatre at 208 West 41st Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York.