The connection between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her African American seamstress Elizabeth Keckley was a remarkably strong one, forged out of a common sense that they were both outsiders in ...

It takes a minute for Tituss Burgess to settle into the role of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady deliriously reimagined in the Broadway play Oh, Mary!. The presence of creator and original lead ...

It was a performance that kicked off Burgess' limited three week run in the Sam Pinkleton-directed Broadway hit, which follows the miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up ...

In a nation filled with infighting over our collective identity, where nobody can agree on an interpretation of our history, perhaps what we need is someone who doesn’t care. Cole Escola, writer ...

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 explicitly ...

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 ...

Betty's Mary Todd Lincoln is very different than Cole's ... dreaming person is—and all the things that inspire them: it’s old Hollywood, it’s regional-theater-dressing-room delusion ...

By Joshua Barone “Oh!” Tituss Burgess said, the curls of his Mary Todd Lincoln wig bobbing as he spoke. “I need kneepads.” Fully in costume, wearing the wig and a bell-shaped black dress ...

Oh, Mary! centers on the miserable Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The play premiered off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in February 2024 ...

It was a performance that kicked off Burgess' limited three week run in the Sam Pinkleton-directed Broadway hit, which follows the miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to ...