George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck will open on Broadway in April.
The play, which Clooney wrote with Grant Heslov, will begin previews at the Winter Garden Theatre March 12, 2025, with an opening night set for April 3. Clooney will also make his Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck in the role of journalist Edward R. Murrow.
The stage play is based on the 2005 film written by Clooney and Heslov and follows Murrow’s clash with U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy as Murrow pushes to continue reporting on McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. David Cromer, who won a Tony Award for his direction of The Band’s Visit, will direct the production.
Clooney directed the film and also played Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow’s television program, while David Strathairn played Murrow. The movie was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture.
Heslov and Clooney have also worked together on The Ides of March, The Monuments Men and Suburbicon.
Good Night, and Good Luck takes over the Winter Garden Theatre after the announcement that its current tenant, Back to the Future, will end its run Jan. 5.
Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jean Doumanian and Robert Fox are producing the Broadway show.
Clooney is part of a starry Broadway season that includes Robert Downey Jr., who made his Broadway in McNeal, Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes in Our Town, Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone in The Roommate, Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler in Romeo + Juliet, Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray and more.