All the Way
by Robert Schenkkan
Directed by Steven Woolf
2015-2016 Mainstage Season
The Story
It’s 1963. Following the assassination of JFK, Lyndon Johnson becomes America’s “accidental president.” Launched into the presidency over a country in turmoil, LBJ maneuvers and manipulates his way through a series of power plays to pass the Civil Rights Act and to guarantee a full term in the Oval Office. Deception, bullying and blackmail are all strategies in his arsenal. But in this 2014 Tony Award Winner for Best Play, featuring a large landscape of people and characters, LBJ makes clear that it’s not personal, it’s just politics.
Creative & Production Staff
Scenic Designer: James Kronzer
Costume Designer: Dorothy Marshall Englis
Lighting Designer: Rob Denton
Sound Designer: Fitz Patton
Stage Manager: Emilee Buchheit
Assistant Stage Manager: Lionel Christian
Casting: Rich Cole
Projection Designer: Matthew Young
Cast
Brian Dykstra (Lyndon Johnson)
Bernadette Quigley (Lady Bird Johnson, Katharine Graham, Katharine St. George)
Michael James Reed (Walter Jenkins, William Colmer)
Elizabeth Meadows Rouse (Muriel Humphrey, Lurleen Wallace, White House Secretary)
Kurt Zischke (Hubert Humphrey)
Anderson Matthews (Richard Russell)
Robert Vincent Smith (J. Edgar Hoover, Robert Byrd)
John Leonard Thompson (Robert McNamara, James Eastland, William McCulloch, Paul Johnson)
Avery Glymph (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Ron Himes (Ralph Abernathy)
Jerry Vogel (Stanley Levison, Seymore Trammell, Edwin King, John McCormack)
Richard Prioleau (Stokely Carmichael, James Harrison)
Gary Wayne Barker (Carl "Deke" Deloach, Howard "Judge" Smith, Everett Dirksen, Carl Sanders)
Myxolydia Tyler (Coretta Scott King, Fannie Lou Hamer)
Stephen D'Ambrose (Strom Thurmond, King of Norway)
Jon Shaver (George Wallace, Walter Reuther, James Corman, Mike Mansfield)
J. Samuel Davis (Roy Wilkins, Aaron Henry)
J. Cameron Barnett (Bob Moses, David Dennis)
Alan Knoll (Emanuel Celler, Network Announcer)
Sponsorship & Support
Wells Fargo Advisors
St. Louis Theater Circle Awards
Outstanding Production of a Drama
Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama