Mary Todd Lincoln had grand ambitions of being a cabaret star, at least according to playwright Cole Escola. Now, the former first lady is getting her due on the grandest stage of all.

NEW YORK — “I am the stupidest person here,” Cole Escola said in a speech last month. “And I mean that as an insult to all of you.” They had just won a special Drama Desk Award for “Oh ...

Oh, Mary! has found its next Mary! Emmy Award-nominated actor Betty Gilpin will take over the role of Mary Todd Lincoln. Taking over for Cole Escola, who also wrote the play, Gilpin begins ...

What was left, and still legible, was later copied again by a special committee. Todd died in 1807, and is also known for being the grandfather of future First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.

Oh, Mary! is a dark comedy about a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires ...

A good deal can be learned about Lincoln by tracking the way he courted Mary Todd, and to know more about Mary Todd also becomes a way to understand Abraham Lincoln. Abundant evidence exists of her ...

Insanity Retrial of Mary Todd Lincoln is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

and I’m nervous about which socks are falling out in the middle of the night,” says the actress who will replace Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln in the hit presidential farce, Oh, Mary!

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Oh, Mary! is a zany and unconventional ...

When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by 120,000 people on April 24, 1865, his widow, Mary Todd Lincoln ...

Last month, Gilpin began an eight-week run in the hit Broadway comedy “Oh, Mary ... as the alcoholic and fame-hungry Mary Todd Lincoln. She is the first actor to replace the show’s writer ...