Arena Stage has brought Washington many plays that are marginally political, but its latest Washington premiere — of Robert Schenkkan’s The Great Society — is unabashedly, completely political, and one of the finest dramas Arena has produced in recent years. A follow-up to his play All the Way, which told the story of Lyndon Johnson’s unexpected appointment as president immediately after the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, The Great Society makes clear the struggles Johnson went through during his second term. To read more, click here.