While it doesn't exactly feel like it was born yesterday, Garson Kanin's 1946 play "Born Yesterday" certainly hasn't lost its relevance or its entertainment value. The story of a "dumb blonde" who, ...

Just as no man is an island, so no play can escape the times in which it is mounted. If Garson Kanin was thinking about post-World War II America when he wrote his 1946 comedy Born Yesterday (★★★), ...

But even the babel of fierce combat between the American theater's definitive dumb blonde, Billie Dawn (Nina Arianda), and her abusive lover Harry Brock (Jim Belushi), cannot obscure the occasional ...

Emmy Award nominee Jim Belushi ("According to Jim," "The Defenders"), Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard, and Outer Critics Circle nominee Nina Arianda ("A breakout performance—one of the ...

From the moment she makes her first appearance in the smart and funny “Born Yesterday” that opened Saturday at American Players Theatre, one-time chorus girl Billie Dawn is performing. As played by an ...