George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck is breaking records on Broadway

George Clooney's Good Night , and Good Luck is racking up an unprecedented $4.2 million in box-office grosses in a single week .

On Saturday at 7 p.m. Eastern , the play’s penultimate performance will be broadcast live on CNN and stream simultaneously on Max and CNN .

The play, unlike the movie, is performed in color, it still tends to paint that struggle in black and white.

Onstage, Good Night, and Good Luck is less insistent on its own seriousness than it was on film, a little more willing to indulge in showmanship for the sake of putting butts in seats.

There's a way in which Good Night , and Good Luck serves as a Trojan horse for audiences to watch the generous amounts of historical footage the production contains.

Watching McCarthy in the present, you can see how skilled he was at whipping up hysteria and dodging direct questions.

The pressures that deformed the news in Murrow 's day have only grown more intense, and its defenses weaker.