George Clooney to Make Broadway Debut in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

George Clooney will make his Broadway acting and playwriting debut next spring in a stage adaptation of his 2005 film about journalist Edward R. Murrow.

In the play, which is also entitled Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney will play Murrow as he pushes executives at CBS to allow him to continue to deliver critical reporting on U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. Clooney wrote the Broadway play with Grant Heslov, who co-wrote the screenplay with Clooney.

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Good Night, and Good Luck will premiere on Broadway in spring 2025 at Shubert theater to be announced.

“I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to,” Clooney said in the press release.

Clooney directed the 2005 film and played Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow’s television program, See It Now, with Murrow, played by David Strathairn. The film 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.

David Cromer, who won a Tony Award for his direction of The Band’s Visit, will direct the production.

“Edward R. Murrow operated from a kind of moral clarity that feels vanishingly rare in today’s media landscape. There was an immediacy in those early live television broadcasts that today can only be effectively captured on stage, in front of a live audience,” Cromer said.

Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jean Doumanian and Robert Fox are producing the Broadway show.

Clooney is set to appear in the 2024-2025 season, which will also see the Broadway debut of Robert Downey Jr.

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