Like television journalist Edward R. Murrow’s historic broadcasts, the stage adaptation of the 2005 film “Good Night, and Good Luck” has a seriousness of purpose that is again dramatically stark, solidly documented and ultimately chilling. This transfer from screen to stage is as intense and laser-focused as the penetrating gaze coming from its star and co-writer, George Clooney.
Clooney, who directed the film and co-wrote its Oscar-nominated screenplay with Grant Heslov, returns to the material with a sense of renewed relevance, giving a starry spotlight to the production. It’s all in the service of the profiles-in-courage story of Murrow’s groundbreaking reporting of an earlier dark political period in 1953 America: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s
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