George Clooney to Make Broadway Debut in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

George Clooney will make his Broadway appearing and playwriting debut subsequent spring in a stage adaptation of his 2005 movie about journalist Edward R. Murrow. 

Within the play, which can also be entitled Good Night time, and Good Luck, Clooney will play Murrow as he pushes executives at CBS to permit him to proceed to ship essential reporting on U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. Clooney wrote the Broadway play with Grant Heslov, who co-wrote the screenplay with Clooney. 

Good Night time, and Good Luck will premiere on Broadway in spring 2025 at Shubert theater to be introduced. 

“I’m honored, in any case these years, to be coming again to the stage and particularly, to Broadway, the artwork type and the venue that each actor aspires to,” Clooney stated within the press launch. 

Clooney directed the 2005 movie and performed Fred W. Pleasant, co-producer of Murrow’s tv program, See It Now, with Murrow, performed by David Strathairn. The movie was nominated for six Academy Awards, together with greatest image. Heslov and Clooney have additionally labored collectively on The Ides of March, The Monuments Males and Suburbicon.

David Cromer, who gained a Tony Award for his route of The Band’s Go to, will direct the manufacturing. 

“Edward R. Murrow operated from a form of ethical readability that feels vanishingly uncommon in at this time’s media panorama. There was an immediacy in these early dwell tv broadcasts that at this time can solely be successfully captured on stage, in entrance of a dwell viewers,” Cromer stated.

Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jean Doumanian and Robert Fox are producing the Broadway present.

Clooney is ready to look within the 2024-2025 season, which can even see the Broadway debut of Robert Downey Jr.