The Great Society (Staged Reading)

The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. The play, performed by Lyric Rep as a stage reading, chronicles the second Presidential term of Lyndon B. Johnson; the escalation of the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, and Richard Nixon’s rise to power.