For more than six decades, the late, legendary actor Hal Holbrook portrayed an iconic American author, journalist and humorist in “Mark Twain Tonight!”
Since he performed the one-man show for 63 years, the Tony Award winner often pointed out that he had portrayed Mark Twain even longer than Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who adopted the pen name in the 1860s, when he was in his 20s, and used it until he died in 1910 at the age of 74.
Now, “Mark Twain Tonight!” is back on the road, as Emmy Award winner and Tony nominee Richard Thomas, himself 74, becomes the first actor authorized to take up the mantle from Holbrook, who died in 2021 at the age of 95…