Ronald Reagan Gets Spotlight in Solo Play

By Kenneth Jones
21 Oct 2009

Playwright David Rambo, whose biographical play about columnist Ann Landers, The Lady With All the Answers, is currently playing Off-Broadway, is writing a new solo play about Ronald Reagan.

Variety reports that producers David Permut and Mark Travis have tapped playwright and "CSI" TV writer Rambo write a new play about the former actor and late two-term U.S. president for a theatrical presentation that would be filmed.

Rambo's plays include God's Man in Texas, The Ice-Breaker, The Spin Cycle, Babbitt and an all-new book for the classic Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon.

The same producers did the stage-to-screen transfers of a Harry S. Truman-based one-man show, Give 'Em Hell, Harry, in 1975, and a Teddy Roosevelt play, Bully, in 1978. James Whitmore starred.

No casting for the role of charismatic Reagan was reported. No dates for a stage presentation were revealed. Peter Hunt (a Tony Award winner for directing 1776) will direct Reagan.