A stage play based on George Clooney's McCarthy-era 'Good Night, and Good Luck' will world-premiere in the fall at Chicago's SteppenwolfThtr
George Clooney's 2005 film about broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow's efforts to bring down fear-mongering U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy amid the heightened paranoia of the early 1950s,Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company will present the world-premiere play, adapted from Clooney and co-writer Grant Heslov's Oscar-nominated screenplay by Matt Charman, himself an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for Steven Spielberg'swill be staged by Steppenwolf artistic director Anna D.
Clooney's film was nominated for six Oscars, including best picture, direction and actor for David Strathairn, who played CBS veteran Murrow. The cast also included Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Daniels, Patricia Clarkson and Frank Langella. Arguably the most distinguished actor-driven theater company in the country, Steppenwolf will wrap its 2020-21 season with Anton Chekhov's, translated, adapted and directed by ensemble member Yasen Peyankov with an all-ensemble cast. Beginning performances Aug. 1, 2021, that production will inaugurate the organization's new campus addition, a 50,000 square-foot theater-in-the-round, only six rows deep in order to maintain the Steppenwolf ethos of intimate and personal storytelling.
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