Twentieth Century January 20, 2009

Adapted by Ken Ludwig, this classic screwbal comedy, based on the 1930s play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, tells the tale of a Broadway impresario on the decline who, desperately seeking to revive his sagging career, uses mistaken identity, chicanery and catastrophe to coax his unforgiving former flame and mercurial silver screen starlet into starring in his next productsion.