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George Clooney Is a Little Nervous About His Broadway Debut
“There’s all this panic.”
The parameters of the thing are, so to speak, theater-friendly: The film, a taut 90 minutes, largely stays within the CBS offices as Murrow and his crew report out McCarthy’s attacks on supposed Communists in the U.S. government, in the midst of also doing fluffier celebrity interviews with the likes of Liberace. is currently in rehearsals for previews starting on March 12, helmed by David Cromer, a director who has made a name for himself with intimate dramas and musicals, like The Band’s Visit and a famed Off Broadway version of Our Town. Clooney and Heslov aren’t implementing any rewrites in response to current events—that’s not necessary, Cromer told me—but they are hyperaware of the context in which the audience will arrive to see a play about attacks on free speech.
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