Timing wasn’t a friend to Lyndon B. Johnson as the Texas-born president fought to pass his ambitious Great Society legislation while simultaneously coping with the morass of the Vietnam War and striving to stop racial injustice. But with today’s arguments about the need for a social safety net, the debilitating cost of ongoing wars and the painful price of racial and other forms of polarization, the timing could not be better for the release of The Great Society by Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning University of Texas at Austin alumnus. Dallas is lucky to see this electrifying sequel to Schenkkan’s Tony Award-winning All the Way. A co-production between two Tony Award-winning regional theaters, Dallas Theater Center and Houston’s Alley Theatre, The Great Society continues through April 1 at the Wyly Theatre. To read more, click here.