George Clooney’s outdated new play celebrates the 'truth-telling' press

In March, the Broadway premiere of Good Night, and Good Luck, co-written by and starring George Clooney, will debut at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. As Playbill explains, “a work of historical drama, Good Night, and Good Luck centers on a clash between famed journalist Edward R. Murrow and infamous U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, of anti-communist HUAC fame.”

“Edward R. Murrow operated from a kind of moral clarity that feels vanishingly rare in today’s media landscape,” director David Cromer said in a statement. “There was an immediacy in those early live television broadcasts that today can only be effectively captured on stage, in front of a live audience.”