Producers of the Broadway play “Good Night, and Good Luck” recently announced that the penultimate performance of George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s drama will be broadcast live on CNN on June 7 at 7 p.m. ET. Here’s how to tune in for the event, which will mark the first time a Broadway play has been broadcast and televised live.
“Good Night, and Good Luck” will air live on CNN and CNN International and will stream live (without requiring a cable login) on CNN’s website and on connected TVs and mobile apps. Finally, the performance will stream live on Max across all subscription plans.
Newly announced is special pre-show coverage, which will be led by CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Pamela Brown. The duo will report live from outside the Winter Garden Theatre beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET. Following the broadcast, Cooper will host a discussion of the five-time Tony-nominated production as well as the state of global journalism.
Adapted for the stage from Clooney and Heslov’s screenplay for the 2005 film of the same name, “Good Night, and Good Luck” dramatizes the historic, on-air battle of real-life CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow (played by Clooney in a Tony-nominated turn) in exposing the lies and corruption of senator Joseph McCarthy’s communist investigation.
David Cromer directs “Good Night, and Good Luck,” which began previews on March 12 and opened on April 3. The drama is scheduled to play a limited engagement through June 8. The production, which recently recouped its $9.5 million investment, has broken several box office records at the Winter Garden. During the week ending June 1, “Good Night, and Good Luck” earned $4,245,599, the highest single-week gross for a nonmusical play in Broadway history.
“Good Night, and Good Luck” is produced by Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jean Doumanian and Robert Fox.
