There's this mug, see, named Hildy Johnson.
   Ace reporter for a big-time Chicago newspaper.
     He's givin' up the job, see, for a dame!
       That is, if his editor can't change his mind
         and talk him into covering the biggest story of the year!

The MHCC Main Stage plays host to this riotous 1920's comedy about big-city corruption and a pack of reporters who'll do anything to get the next big story! Artistic Associate Trisha Pancio Armour directs this Broadway hit that virtually created the modern stereotype of the hard-drinking, hard-boiled journalist intent on uncovering truth even in the face of danger.

The play takes place in the pressroom at Chicago's Criminal Courts Building on a Friday evening - and concerns a group of reporters covering a controversial execution. Lead reporter Hildy Johnson has to make a hard choice - his old life as a reporter or a new one as a married ad executive in New York. Not an easy choice, it turns out, when the editor of Hildy's paper (played by Artistic Director Tobias Andersen) refuses to let his star reporter go... and when the condemned man escapes and a manhunt ensues!

"The Front Page took the corsets off the American theatre."
                              --Tennessee Williams

"Loud, rapid, coarse, and unfailing entertainment!"
                              --Brooks Atkinson

Recommended for ages 10 and up

Online Playbill	Notes On The Front Page By Director Trisha Pancio Armour	About Authors Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur
Photos	Listen to the Radio Spot Broadcast on KXL Radio.	Read the Oregonian Review of The Front Page

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