The Great Society, the sequel to Robert Schenkkan’s 2014 Tony-winning epic All the Way, officially opens at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater on October 1. Bill Rauch, who helmed All the Way, also directs the new work, which began previews on September 6. Brian Cox stars in the production as President Lyndon Baines Johnson.Capturing Johnson’s passionate and aggressive attempts to build a great society for all, the new play follows his epic triumph in a landslide election to the agonizing decision not to run for re-election just three years later. It was an era that would define history forever: the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the destruction of Vietnam and the creation of some of the greatest social programs America has ever known—with one man at the center of it all: LBJ. To read more, click here.