"John Loves Mary" is a World War II-era play currently being staged to nostalgic effect at Rainbow Dinner Theatre. Written by prolific playwright and screenwriter Norman Krasna in 1947, it is best ...

Don Bluth, the master of animation and founder of the eponymously named Front Row Theatre in Scottsdale, has a sophisticated taste for old chestnuts…enough so that each season is guaranteed to include ...

A WWII soldier’s engagement is complicated by his decision to marry his best friend’s lover to give her U.S. citizenship. Like the movies for which Norman Krasna is better known–he wrote White ...

Just where does Hale Centre Theatre find its retro ingenues? The simple comedies unearthed from the 1940s and ’50s that have become a staple of the Hale — earning the cozy Gilbert playhouse a ...

Nina Foch, who died in December, had her share of theater successes — notably, a Broadway hit in 1947-48 in the Norman Krasna comedy "John Loves Mary," a role played in the 1949 film version by ...