The musical, directed by IU assistant professor Richard Roland, is a satire of the 1936 propaganda film with the same title. The show follows Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane, an all-American high school ...

In 2005, their film Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical premiered on Showtime. Much like its cinematic predecessor, it attracted its own cult following, though this time unironically. The film has been ...

Grantham Durham, who played Jimmy Harper, had fantastic energy on stage from start to finish. With fabulous comedic timing and excellent physicality, the audience can lose themselves in the story of ...

Rachel Bloom also stepped in to revive material that got cut from the musical-comedy on the 25-year path to the current revival in Hollywood. If you were cataloging the signs of a stage musical that ...

With Halloween just around the corner, the IU Department of Theater, Drama and Contemporary Dance will present the musical “Reefer Madness,” a musical comedy based on the B-movie that came out in 1936 ...

The comically self-serious and outrageous 1936 morality tale, which warned the public about marijuana, became an unintentional parody and midnight-movie classic decades later. The comically ...

In 1936, it was deadly serious business to a church group that wanted to warn parents about the dangers of cannabis, and it financed an earnest educational film called Tell Your Children.. In 1936, it ...

That old reefer madness has us in its spell: The time is ripe in Denver for a revival of Reefer Madness (aka Tell Your Children), the 1938 anti-pot propaganda film directed by Louis Gasnier. The ...

CONTENT WARNING: This is a satire that addresses themes that include drugs, sexuality, and domestic violence, Mature Themes, Mature language. Viewer Discretion is advised. All ticket sales go directly ...

"Reefer Madness" has silliness to burn. But that's about all there is to the slight musical spoof of the notorious exploitation flick warning against the menace of marijuana. Staged by Theater LaB in ...