I haven’t had the opportunity to visit the Bay Street Players in their historic State Theatre in Eustis for quite some time, but due to some fortuitous scheduling I found myself making the drive to ...

Vega had been a contestant in the internationally popular Hands on a Hardbody contest at Patterson Nissan in Longview when he killed himself Thursday morning after leaving the contest on its third day ...

A true story that was adapted into a musical is now playing in Cincinnati.The musical is called "Hands on a Hardbody" and tells the story of 10 Texans who try to win a contest to walk away with a ...

A DOCUMENTARY about a bizarre Texas competition to win a pickup truck has been given new life as a musical at Limelight Theatre. Directed by David Nelson and Jane Anderson, Hands on a Hardbody tells ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Hands on a Hardbody began as a contest in Longview at a Nissan car dealership, and it attracted national attention. Contestants were willing to go days without sleep for the ...

Patterson Nissan has reached a tentative settlement in a civil lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who killed himself after dropping out of the auto dealership's Hands on a Hardbody contest in 2005.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - How long would you stand in the blistering sun for a free truck? That's the plot of a musical "Hands on a Hardbody" which follows the true story of a group of contestants who are ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A big truck sits at the center of New Line Theatre’s small stage, red as a fire engine and just as conspicuous. Rob Lippert’s set ...

Imagine you’re trying to sell Broadway audiences on a new musical about a group of people competing to see which one of them can stand touching a pickup truck the longest. Would you really want to ...

A participant in an East Texas contest popularized in a 1998 documentary film left the event early Thursday, broke into a nearby store, retrieved a shotgun and killed himself, police said. Richard ...