All the Way (play)

All the Way
All the Way
	Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Written by	Robert Schenkkan
Characters	Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Martin Luther King Jr.; Hubert Humphrey; J. Edgar Hoover; Richard Russell;
Date premiered	July 28, 2012
Place premiered	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Original language	English
Series	American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle
Subject	Politics
Genre	Drama
Setting	Washington, D.C., Atlantic City, Mississippi, Atlanta, November 1963 to November 1964

All the Way is a play by Robert Schenkkan, depicting President Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts to maneuver members of the 88th United States Congress to enact, and civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King Jr. to support, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The play takes its name from Johnson's 1964 campaign slogan, "All the Way with LBJ."^[1]

The play was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and premiered there in 2012, in a production directed by Bill Rauch, with Jack Willis originating the role of LBJ. It premiered on Broadway in March 2014, in a production also directed by Rauch, which won the 2014 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Bryan Cranston won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance. The play was published in 2014.^[2]

^ Oxfeld, Jesse (March 11, 2014). "And the Prize Goes to the Puppet: 'All the Way' Is Riveting, and the Directorial Vision Behind 'Antony and Cleopatra' Is Brilliant". New York Observer. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
^ Schenkkan, Robert (August 12, 2014). All the Way (A Play). Bryan Cranston (Introduction). Grove Press. ISBN 9780802123442. OCLC 883651125.