"All the Way"

All the Way

Robert Schenkkan

Palo Alto Players

The Cast of All the Way

In the Palo Alto Players’ magnificently produced, regional premiere of Robert Schenkkan’s 2014 Tony winning Best Play, All the Way, we as an audience are challenged to ask ourselves if questionable tactics of a nation’s leader are ever acceptable if the desired outcomes match our own sense of social and economic justice.  Is this in fact “the way things are done,” and it is in fact ‘the ends’ that truly matter and not so much ‘the means’?  If so, do many of us who detest the current president’s manners and tactics do so not because of what they are, but because we do not agree with his desired outcomes?  

For my full review of this fascinating, spell-bounding, live documentary of the events and personalities between November 22, 1963 when an assassin’s bullet elevated Johnson into the West Wing and November 3, 1964 when he won the office with 61.1% popular vote, please continue to Talkin' Broadway: https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/sanjose/sj143.html.

Rating: 5-E, “MUST-SEE”

All the Way continues through November 18, 2018 in production by Palo Alto Players at the Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.  Tickets are available at www.paplayer.org or by calling 650-329-0891.

Photo Credit: Joyce Goldschmid