AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players Present The Man Who Came to Dinner

 
Sheridan Whiteside, the cantankerous but talented writer and radio personality, reluctantly accepts a dinner invitation while on a lecture tour in a small town in Ohio. His thought is to eat and run, but he slips on a patch of ice and is forced to change his quick-escape plans. It’s a nightmare for the host family as Whiteside takes over the household with a combination of demands, rudeness, and expensive whims. Even after the doctor reveals to Whiteside that he has misread the x-rays and the leg is fine, Whiteside bribes the doctor not to tell anyone so he can stay on to—in the words of critic Hal Erickson—“stage-manage the lives of everyone around him.”

Series:   Theatre Guild on the Air; also known as The United States Steel Hour
Program: The Man Who Came to Dinner (originally broadcast November 17, 1946, on the ABC Radio Network)
Director: Parker Gronwold

7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30)

Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theater
Admission is free— first come, first seated.