All the Way (play)

All the Way
Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Written by	Robert Schenkkan
Characters	Lyndon B. Johnson Lady Bird Johnson Martin Luther King, Jr. Hubert Humphrey J. Edgar Hoover Richard Russell
Date premiered	July 28, 2012 (2012-07-28)
Place premiered	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Original language	English
Series	American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle
Subject	Politics
Genre	Drama
Setting	Washington, D.C., Atlantic City, Mississippi, Atlanta, November 1963 to November 1964

All the Way is a play by Robert Schenkkan, depicting President Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts to maneuver members of the 88th United States Congress to enact, and civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. to support, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The play takes its name from Johnson's 1964 campaign slogan, "All the Way with LBJ."

The play was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and premiered there in 2012, in a production directed by Bill Rauch, with Jack Willis originating the role of LBJ. It premiered on Broadway in March 2014, in a production also directed by Rauch, which won the 2014 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Bryan Cranston won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance.

All the Way was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) as part of its "American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle." It premiered at OSF on July 28, 2012, directed by Bill Rauch, with Jack Willis originating the role of LBJ.

A reading of All the Way was held in January 2013 at Seattle Repertory Theatre, as part of the theater's New Play Festival; it was paired with The Great Society, also by Robert Schenkkan

The play was produced in September 2013, at the American Repertory Theater (ART) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, directed by Rauch, with Bryan Cranston as LBJ. The ART production premiered on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre for a limited run on March 6, 2014, where it ran through until June 29, 2014.