Articles by Ken Klingenmeier

Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre continues its wide-ranging season with Million Dollar Quartet, the very musical story of the historic meeting of four rock giants – Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash,…

Legally Blonde originated as a 2001 novel by Amanda Brown, based on Ms. Brown’s experiences as a law student at Stanford University. Miraculously, a film version also came out in…

You Can’t Take It With You opened on Broadway in December 1936 and went on to win the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. (A film version won the Academy Award…

There aren’t very many stories more familiar to my generation than The Wizard of Oz. The 1939 film version starring Judy Garland was traditional Thanksgiving Day television fare throughout our…

Ken Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo came to Broadway in 1995, starring Carol Burnett in her return after a 30-year absence. One of Ludwig’s numerous farces, Moon Over Buffalo follows patterns…

A.R. Gurney is well-known for his plays The Dining Room, Love Letters, and The Dinner Party. His comedy Sylvia opened off-Broadway in 1995. The story of an unusual romantic triangle…

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, which opened this week at Indianapolis’ Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, is celebrating its 73rd year of existence. Opening on Broadway in March…

Humans are flawed. Language is raw. Art imitates life. Jason Miller’s 1972 play That Championship Season – which won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the 1973…

Alfred Uhry’s play Driving Miss Daisy started as off-Broadway fare in 1987, winning the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It wasn’t long before Hollywood took notice and the Oscar winning…