George Clooney Makes His Debut on Broadway

The play is an adaptation of Clooney's 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck

- Agencies

George Clooney made waves last July when he called on Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, citing diminished capacity. For him, there wasn't a choice to stay silent. Clooney's truth-to-power stance takes another step this spring as he makes his Broadway debut, telling the story of legendary reporter Edward R. Murrow in an adaptation of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck.

Murrow, who died in 1965, is considered one of the architects of U.S. broadcast news and perhaps his greatest moment was opposing Joe McCarthy, who cynically created paranoia of a communist threat in the 1950s.

"This is a story about who we are at our best, when we hold our own feet to the fire, when we check and balance ourselves," says Clooney. "What's scary about now and the difference between Murrow's time is that we've now decided that truth is negotiable."