Now that he has more Emmys than he knows what to do with, Bryan Cranston seems to have set his sights on collecting trophies at a different awards show—the Tonys.
This winter, Cranston will make his Broadway as Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way. The three-hour-long historical drama is currently enjoying a sold out run at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. The play’s author, Robert Schenkkan (winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for The Kentucky Cycle), revealed over Facebook and Twitter this weekend that the production would transfer to Broadway before the end of the season.
The play depicts Johnson’s first year in office, beginning with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and ending with his defeat of Barry Goldwater. J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King, and Hubert Humphrey all appear as supporting characters.
Although Cranston’s performance has received rave reviews, a Tony victory is by no means a certainty. Among Cranston’s toughest competitors: Denzel Washington (A Raisin in the Sun), Daniel Craig (Betrayal), Ethan Hawke (Macbeth), Zachary Quinto (The Glass Menagerie), and Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellan (Waiting For Godot and No Man’s Land).
