“GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK” LICENSING RIGHTS ACQUIRED BY CONCORD THEATRICALS
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON FRIDAY, APRIL 25, PLEASE
CONCORD THEATRICALS
ACQUIRES LICENSING RIGHTS FOR
“GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK”
A NEW PLAY BY
GEORGE CLOONEY AND GRANT HESLOV
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New York, NY (April 25, 2025) – Concord Theatricals is honored to announce that it has secured exclusive worldwide English language stage licensing rights to Good Night, and Good Luck, the critically acclaimed hit new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov for its Samuel French imprint. The Acting Edition of the script will be available for purchase this summer. For more information, visit concordsho.ws/GoodNightAndGoodLuck.
“We are excited that Good Night, And Good Luck will be published and made available for licensing through Concord Theatricals,” said Clooney and Heslov. “We look forward to seeing this story on bookshelves and stages around the world.”
“It’s a privilege to add George and Grant’s play to Concord’s catalog of landmark shows that engage in cultural critique,” said Sean Patrick Flahaven, Chief Theatricals Executive of Concord. “Having grown up in a political family, the film has always been a favorite of mine, and this is a brilliant adaptation for the stage. Professional theatres, community theatres, universities, and schools will all find it compelling.”
Based on the 2929 Entertainment and Participant film of the same name distributed by Warner Bros. and written by the same authors, in Good Night, and Good Luck, we tune in to the Golden Age of broadcast journalism and Edward R. Murrow’s legendary, history-altering, on-air showdown with Senator Joseph McCarthy. As McCarthyism casts a shadow over America, Murrow and his news team choose to confront the growing tide of paranoia and propaganda, even if it means turning the federal government and a worried nation against them. The play chronicles a time in American history when truth and journalistic integrity stood up to fearmongering and disinformation – and won.
Directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer, Good Night, and Good Luck officially opened at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre on Thursday, April 3.
Good Night, and Good Luck is produced by Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jean Doumanian, and Robert Fox.
Tickets are on sale at www.telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200.
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Concord Theatricals is the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of R&H Theatricals, Samuel French, Tams-Witmark and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, plus dozens of new signings each year. Our unparalleled roster includes the work of Irving Berlin, Agatha Christie, George & Ira Gershwin, Marvin Hamlisch, Lorraine Hansberry, Kander & Ebb, Tom Kitt, Ken Ludwig, Marlow & Moss, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anaïs Mitchell, Dominique Morisseau, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Thornton Wilder and August Wilson. We are the only firm providing truly comprehensive services to creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording and first-class producing. As a producer and record label, the company has won three Tony Awards and two GRAMMY Awards in the past six years. www.concordtheatricals.com
George Clooney is making his Broadway debut with Good Night, and Good Luck. The play, which he also co-wrote with Grant Heslov, is based on the 2005 film version, which earned Clooney Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Clooney was last seen in Jon Watts’ Wolfs alongside Brad Pitt, and Ticket to Paradise, in which he co-starred with Julia Roberts. Upcoming, Clooney will star opposite Adam Sandler and Billy Crudup in Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly. Other acting credits include Michael Clayton; The Descendants; Syriana; Up in the Air; the Oceans series; Gravity; The Ides of March; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; and “ER.”
Clooney made his directorial debut with the spy drama Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and went on to helm Good Night, and Good Luck; The Ides of March; The Monuments Men; Suburbicon; Leatherheads; The Midnight Sky; The Tender Bar; and most recently, The Boys in the Boat.
Clooney’s achievements as a performer and a filmmaker have earned him two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, four SAG Awards, one BAFTA award, two Critics’ Choice Awards, an Emmy, four National Board of Review Awards, and an American Film Institute Life Achievement Award.
In 2006, Clooney and Heslov founded their film and television production company, Smokehouse Pictures. Under the banner, the company has produced a wide variety of titles, including Argo, The Ides of March, Leatherheads, Money Monster, August: Osage County, Ticket to Paradise, The Boys in the Boat, Wolfs, as well as “Catch-22” and “The Agency.” Clooney and Heslov first worked together at Section Eight, a company in which Clooney was partnered with Steven Soderbergh. Section Eight productions included Ocean’s 11; Ocean’s 12; Ocean’s 13; Michael Clayton; The Good German; Good Night, and Good Luck; Syriana; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; and Welcome to Collinwood.
George Clooney is recognized as much for his global humanitarian efforts as he is for his accomplishments in the entertainment industry. Among the many honors received as a result of his humanitarian efforts in Darfur, one of them was the 2007 Peace Summit Award, given at the eighth World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. In 2008, Clooney was designated a U.N. Messenger of Peace, one of eight individuals chosen to advocate on behalf of the U.N. and its peacekeeping efforts. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Clooney with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 2010 Primetime Emmys. Later that year, Clooney received the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award for his dedication to humanitarian efforts in Sudan and Haiti.
Grant Heslov has been recognized for his work as a producer, writer, director, and actor. Together with George Clooney, he founded and continues to run Smokehouse Pictures. A four-time Oscar® nominee, Heslov received a Best Picture Academy Award for Argo. He earned an Oscar® nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Ides of March, which he co-wrote with Clooney, and earned dual Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck, which he also co-wrote with Clooney. Heslov’s additional producing credits include the feature films Wolfs, Boys in the Boat, Ticket to Paradise, The Tender Bar, Midnight Sky, Suburbicon, Money Monster, Our Brand Is Crisis, The Monuments Men, August: Osage County, The American, The Men Who Stare at Goats (also directed), and Leatherheads.
Heslov currently serves as executive producer and director of the Showtime/Paramount+ series “The Agency.” Other television credits include the upcoming “Surviving Ohio State” (HBO), “Catch-22” (Hulu), “Trial by Media” (Netflix), “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” (Showtime), “Unscripted”(HBO), and “K-Street” (HBO). Heslov and Clooney co-wrote and are producing the stage adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck.
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