THE 39 STEPS is a bit like SNL’s sketch about New Shimmer, “it’s a floor wax, and it’s a dessert topping.” In this case it's not just a 1915 novel, it’s a 1935 Hitchcock movie, and it is a play now ...

Alfred Hitchcock often preferred sets to real locations and – eerily empty of actors and action – these photographs show his constructed backdrops for the Highlands, train and Palladium sequences of ...

Espionage, romance and plenty of laughs take center stage this weekend as Tyler’s Pollard Theater presents “The 39 Steps,” a parody of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 spy thriller, adapted from John Buchan’s ...

Mix an Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of vintage Monty Python and you have “The 39 Steps,” a whodunit, part espionage thriller and part slapstick comedy, adapted for ...

Even though so many of his films are mischievously funny, we don’t commonly think of Alfred Hitchcock as a filmmaker of wit and levity. In The 39 Steps—among the films Hitchcock made in England before ...

The 10th anniversary season wraps at the Three Brothers Theatre in Waukegan with a Hitchcock play about murder, mystery — and clowns. “The 39 Steps” is staged at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays April ...

Walnut Street describes the production in this way: "Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps. Richard Hannay, our hero, is intrigued by ...

Take an obscure 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film and turn it into a comedy with only four actors playing over 100 parts, including actors doubling parts within the same scene, and you have “The 39 Steps." ...