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NCS will solely televise actor George Clooney’s record-breaking Broadway present “Good Night, and Good Luck,” on Saturday, June 7, the community introduced Thursday.
The limited-run play’s penultimate efficiency from the Winter Garden Theatre in New York will air live on NCS and NCS International and stream on NCS.com at 7 p.m. ET.
“This announcement marks a historic Broadway first: never before has a live play ever been televised,” the community stated in a information launch.
The present is an adaptation of the 2005 film Clooney directed of the identical identify and relies on veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow’s work and rigidity with Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the course of the Red Scare of the Nineteen Fifties.
The play, which debuted in March, swiftly shattered weekly data, changing into the highest-grossing play in Broadway historical past. It has additionally earned 5 Tony Award nominations, together with Clooney for finest main actor in a play.
“I can’t tell you how exciting it is to do something that’s never been done. NCS is the perfect place to bring this story of courage to so many more people than we could have ever hoped. Live TV. No net. Buckle up everyone,” Clooney stated within the information launch.
Discussing the play in a previous interview with NCS’s Jake Tapper, Clooney burdened the significance of journalism in preserving democracy, citing the veteran journalist’s phrases.
“It doesn’t matter what political bend you are on – when you hear things like, you know, ‘We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and a conviction depends on evidence and due process of law, and we will not walk in fear of one another. We won’t be driven by fear into an age of unreason,’ I think those are extraordinarily powerful words for who we are at our best,” Clooney stated.
The play comes at a time when the Trump administration has launched assaults on media, together with barring the Associated Press from a few of President Donald Trump’s occasions and trying to end federal funding for NPR and PBS.
Clooney – a serious Democratic donor – has repeatedly spoken out in opposition to Trump. And forward of the 2024 presidential election, Clooney co-hosted a star-studded fundraising for then-President Joe Biden earlier than Biden’s disastrous efficiency at NCS’s presidential debate that in the end led him to drop out of the race.
According to a forthcoming e book from Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, Biden did not recognize Clooney – whom he had identified for years – on the fundraiser, leaving the actor “shaken to his core.”
Less than a month after the interplay, Clooney launched an op-ed calling for Biden to drop out of the race.