Leopold and Richard Loeb, for their "thrill" murder of teenage Bobby Franks. In one of the first "Trials of the Century," Darrow succeeded in getting his clients life imprisonment, rather than death sentences. Both these cases have been dramatized: the...

I was first exposed to the Scopes Monkey Trial during my freshman year in high school during my speech class. We were performing an excerpt from the play, Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee. We were told the play was a fictionalized...

Adrian Noble, who is the artistic director of the Old Globe's Summer Shakespeare Festival, will stage productions of As You Like It (June 10-Sept. 30, 2012), as well as Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind (June 17-Sept. 25, 2012). Also...