Theres all this panic.

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Now, nearly two decades later, Clooney is revisiting the subject on Broadway.

So its fitting, perhaps, that this movie in particular might make its way to the stage.

After that, Clooney and Heslov decided to step in and try their hands at adapting it themselves.

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The play is now bigger than the film, which almost never happens.

It expands on what we were working on in the claustrophobia of the CBS newsroom.

Clooney has also helped the cast master the equipment of the era.

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We had had tutorials, but he went, Oh, waitheres this.

This is what that lever does.

Heres how you crank this.

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This production ofGood Night, and Good Luck.was announced last spring.

(CBSs parent company Paramountreportedly may settle that suit, its own kind of McCarthy-era compliance in advance.)

And now well work on the rest of it.

In previews March 12 at the Winter Garden Theatre.

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