Mr. Lincoln, an original play by Tom Klingenstein, dramatizes the reunion in 1906 of two fictional characters--a former slave, and a New York society matron--who had met one another, and Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, when Lincoln came to New York to deliver his epoch-making address at The Cooper Union.
Bringing to life a key moment in the intertwined careers of America's greatest President and its greatest city, Mr. Lincoln is a public-program complement to the New-York Historical Society's landmark exhibition Lincoln and New York, on view October 9, 2009 through March 25, 2010.
The play features Peter Jay Fernandez (Broadway's Cyrano de Bergerac, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, Jelly's Last Jam) and Jane Summerhays (Broadway's A Chorus Line, Cabaret, The Real Inspector Hound and Me and My Girl, for which she earned a Tony nomination) and is directed by Margarett Perry (Artistic Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center). Production design: Solomon Weisbard. Costume design: David Toser. Audiovisual design: Ross Minicheillo, Riverside Digital Productions.