The Winner

Lyric Stage offers the world premiere of The Winner, a love story between Lyndon Baines Johnson and his wife Ladybird. The play is also, however, a tale of one of the dirtiest, most vicious, most colorful campaigns in the history of our country – LBJ’s notorious Senate race of 1948. With his trusted campaign manager John Connally, LBJ re-wrote the rulebook on modern politics. And through it all Johnson’s wife Ladybird looked on with worry. And then she intervened. With love, with compassion, but more than anything, with a sense of ethics that her husband often lacked, Ladybird fought for the man she loved – and in doing so, she delivered to her state and her country a man she could be proud of.

Additional performance Saturday, March 3 @ 2:30 PM.