Shows from September 2011 to Present Part 10
19. The Columnist – May 27 th 2012 Sometimes you end up trying to make it to the lotto for Newsies but ended up meeting your Facebook friend from Baltimore and getting rushing tickets for a different show. We ended up getting tickets for a new play not a musical. We as in my mom and I went to see The Columnist . The Columnist is based on the real-life story of Joseph Alsop (John Lithgow) whose columns were running three times a week in more than three hundred newspapers. Power, influence, changing the course of history: It’s all in a day’s work for political pundit and Cold War enthusiast Joseph Alsop, who has made a name for himself via a widely syndicated column in the early 1960s. Known equally for his brash temper and impeccable taste, Alsop has a knack for uncovering the secrets of the dignitaries, presidents and socialites he writes about. But when an explosive personal secret the scribe has been hiding all his life is ready to blow, Al