Summary: Schenkkan's lecture is presented in conjunction with “All the Way” and “The Great Society,” a two-part dramatization of Lyndon Baines Johnson's presidency, running at Seattle Repertory Theatre from Nov. 14, 2014, through Jan. 4, 2015. Robert Schenkkan is an American playwright, screenwriter and actor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for “The Kentucky Cycle” and Tony Award for “All the Way.” He is the author of 13 plays and a collection of one-act plays, “Conversations with the Spanish Lady.” The 2014 Broadway production of “All The Way” swept the awards season, winning the Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League and Tony Award, as well as the Steinberg/American Theater Critics Award, the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Award and Boston’s Elliot Norton Award. It also set two box office records on Broadway.
