Writers William Shakespeare and Ben Hecht will make quite a pair on Saturday afternoon when some fine local actors well versed in and passionate about Shakespeare will be speaking Hecht’s words at the ...

A Broadway revival of the joyously raucous, racy comedy “The Front Page”, about 1920s Chicago newspaper world high jinks, began previews September 20. Written by the American Jewish screenwriter and ...

With The Conservative Sensibility, George F. Will delivers his summa theologia on what that once-promising movement should stand for. This long-winded tome touches on themes familiar to readers of ...

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Playwright James Sherman as the acclaimed newspaperman and screenwriter in his new one-man play, The Ben Hecht Show. A few years ago, Chicago playwright James Sherman came across legendary ...

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About the time your eyes start rolling back in your head or you have started to doze off while watching yet another in the seemingly endless series of uninspired speeches — “And I’d be so remiss not ...

A screenwriter hoping to serve up a punchy opening scene could hardly do better than the first paragraph of Adina Hoffman’s new biography of Ben Hecht. Sentence one: Jean-Luc Godard says Hecht was “a ...

Between 1910 and 1924, in his fantastically eventful years as a Chicagoan, Ben Hecht wrote enough for an entire career. And he was just getting started. He worked for two newspapers (the Chicago Daily ...

THE NOTORIOUS BEN HECHT Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist By Julien Gorbach For understandable reasons, biographies about Ben Hecht have focused almost exclusively on his screenwriting career ...