all the Way.
October 2022
ALL THE WAY by Robert Schenkkan
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 6:20 pm Pre-show discussion BRAVER ANGELS “Bridging the Political Divide in Our Community” 7:30 pm show
October 22nd: Pre-show discussion: Professor Irving Joyner, Charles Hamilton Houston Endowed Chair, North Carolina Central University School of Law. “The Current State of Civil and Voting Rights laws”.
Umstead Park UCC. 8208 Brownleigh Drive, Raleigh, 27617
CAST:
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Jerry Sipp
Lady Bird, Katharine Graham, Katharine St. George: Janet Boudreau
Walter Jenkins, William Colmer: Michael Parker
Secretary, Lurleen Wallace, Murel Humphrey : Amanda Scherle
Strom Thurmond, Hubert Humphrey: Alex Devirgilis
Richard Russell, Emanuel Celler: Randy Jordan
J. Edgar Hoover, Robert Byrd: Dan Oliver
Robert McNamara, James Eastland, William M. McCulloch, Paul B. Johnson: Ann Forsthoefel
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Preston Campbell
Ralph Abernathy: Taufiki Lee
Stanley Levinson, John McCormack, Seymore Trammell, Edwin King: Robert "Bobby" Kaufman
James Harrison, Stokely Carmichael: Daniel Ryder
Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, Howard “Judge” Smith, Everett Dirksen, Carl Sanders: David Klionsky
Coretta Scott King, Fannie Lou Hamer: J.Ra'Chel Fowler
George Wallace, James Corman, Mike Mansfield, Walter Reuther: John Paul Middlesworth
Roy Wilkins, Aaron Henry: Juan Isler
Bob Moses, David Denis: Akili Holder-Cozart
REVIEWS!
Lauren Van Hemert: BELTLINE TO BROADWAY
Byron Woods: INDYWEEK
Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) was an accidental president who, in ALL THE WAY, goes behind the doors of the Oval Office and examines the first year of LBJ’s presidency and his fight to pass a landmark civil rights bill. Looking forward to the forthcoming presidential election, the charismatic yet conflicted Texan hurls himself into the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, which is both desired and fiercely contested. Robert Schenkkan’s Tony Award-winning play travels from November 1963 to November 1964, in which LBJ (the former vice president) was thrust into power following Kennedy’s assassination, struggling to hold onto the White House in an election that forced him to make concessions. At this pivotal time in American history, he was determined to end racial injustice in America and successfully ran for re-election after pushing through the controversial Civil Rights Act. ALL THE WAY documents LBJ’s relationship with Martin Luther King and his influential political peers. It offers an intricate and intimate portrayal of how LBJ bent Congress to his own will. He made his own stamp on presidential history.
Adult language and content
ARCHIVAL information:
SHOW POSTPONED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
LIVE ZOOM interview ONLINE with the playwright 6:15 pm, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Robert Schenkkan.