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Emmy Winner Bryan Cranston to Star as President Lyndon Johnson in All the Way at A.R.T.
Bryan Cranston to Star as Lyndon Johnson in Political Drama All the Way at A.R.T.
Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston to Star as President Lyndon Johnson in A.R.T.’s All the Way
Bryan Cranston to Play Lyndon Johnson in ‘All the Way’
ALL THE WAY WINS STEINBERG AWARD
At the conclusion of the ATL Humana Festival, Robert Schenkkan’s ALL THE WAY was announced as the winter of the 2012 ATCA/Steinberg Best New Play Award, recognized as the best new script produced outside of NYC. The play will be excerpted in Best Plays. Runners-up were Johnna Adams and Lucas Hnath.
CEREMONY FOR KENNEDY PRIZE
Robert Schenkkan and co-winner, Dan O’Brien, were awarded the first ever EDWARD M. KENNEDY PRIZE FOR DRAMA INSPIRED BY AMERICAN HISTORY at the Low Memorial Library at the Columbia University Campus. Present were Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, Edward M. Kennedy, Jr, Patrick Kennedy, and Tony Kushner.
First Winners of Kennedy Playwriting Prize Announced
DENVER NEW PLAY SLAM
Schenkkan attends Denver Theater Center’s New Play Slam.
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES GREAT SOCIETY FOR 2014 SEASON
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced today the world premier of Robert Schenkkan’s, THE GREAT SOCIETY, in July, 2014 in the Angus Bowmer Theater to be directed by Bill Rauch and starring Jack Willis as LBJ. Other plays in the season include: The Tempest, The Cocoanuts, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window, A Wrinkle In Time, The Comedy of Errors, Water by the Spoonful, Family Album, Richard III, and Two Gentlemen of Verona.