During the 1940s and '50s, Margo Jones-nicknamed the Texas Tornado for her larger-than-life personality-pioneered the regional theater movement; championed the work of new playwrights, including Tennessee Williams; and crusaded against the commercial domination of New York theater. But despite her idealism, energy, warmth, and salesmanship, Jones struggled with loneliness, frustration, and doubt. Her untimely death at age 43 came just six months after her triumphant world premiere of the play Inherit the Wind. Her remarkable life and times are captured through theatrical representations, excerpts from three plays, interviews, archival photographs, and rarely seen film footage. Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden narrates, and Judith Ivey and Richard Thomas supply the voices of Jones and Williams.