O'Hare, Jennings and More Join Dennehy and Plummer in Inherit the Wind

Denis O'Hare, Byron Jennings, Terry Beaver and Beth Fowler will join Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy in the upcoming Broadway revival of Inherit the Wind. The complete 34-member company has been set for the production, which begins previews at the Lyceum Theatre on March 19 and is set to open on April 12 for a 16-week limited engagement. Tony winner Doug Hughes Doubt will direct.

In addition to Plummer, Dennehy, O'Hare, Jennings, Beaver and Fowler, the cast will include Steve Brady, Anne Bowles, Bill Buell, Bill Christ, Carson Church, Conor Donovan, Lanny Flaherty, Kit Flanagan, Sherman Howard, Katie Klaus, Maggie Lacey, Jordan Lage, Mary Kate Law, Philip LeStrange, Kevin Loomis, David M. Lutken, Charlotte Maier, Matthew Nardozzi, Randall Newsome, Jay Patterson, Pippa Pearthree, Scott Sowers, Amanda Sprecher, Erik Steele, Jeff Steitzer, Henry Stram, Benjamin Walker and Andrew Weems.

O'Hare E.K.Hornbeck is currently appearing alongside Zoe Caldwell in Classic Stage Company's off-Broadway production of Yasmina Reza's A Spanish Play. He won a Tony Award for his performance in Take Me Out and was last seen on Broadway in Sweet Charity. Other credits include Assassins, Major Barbara, Cabaret and Racing Demon.

Jennings Rev. Jeremiah Brown appeared on Broadway last fall in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Heartbreak House. Other Broadway credits include A Touch of the Poet, Twelve Angry Men, Sight Unseen, Dinner at Eight, Noises Off, The Invention of Love and The Man Who Came to Dinner.

Beaver the Judge has appeared on Broadway in The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Democracy, Twentieth Century, Henry IV, The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Last Night of Ballyhoo.

Fowler Mrs. Brady has appeared on Broadway in The Boy From Oz, Bells Are Ringing, Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Tiodd, Teddy & Alice, Take Me Along, Baby, Peter Pan, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and A Little Night Music.

Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized retelling of the famous 1925 "Monkey Trial," in which science teacher John Scopes was tried and convicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, violating a Tennessee law that forbade teaching any theory that conflicted with the biblical conception of divine creation. Dennehy, a two-time Tony winner for Death of a Salesman and Long Day's Journey Into Night, will play the role of attorney Matthew Harrison Brady based on William Jennings Bryan. Plummer, who won Tonys for Cyrano and Barrymore, will play attorney Henry Drummond based on Clarence Darrow.

Inherit the Wind first played on Broadway in 1955 at the National Theatre now the Nederlander, with Paul Muni and Ed Begley earning Tony Awards for their performances as Drummond and Brady, respectively. A 1960 movie version starred Spencer Tracy and Frederic March, and three television adaptations have also been filmed.

Oscar-nominated and Tony-winning designer Santo Loquasto will design the sets and costumes for the production. Brian MacDevitt is the lighting designer. Original music and sound design is by David Van Tieghem.