a new door has been opened to curiosity about Lincoln's enigmatic wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. Escola's Mary is a farce: a boozy, mercurial, wannabe cabaret star with a closeted husband. "I wrote myself ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — One of the most consequential presidents in American history spent three weeks in 1847 in Lexington, Kentucky, where he stayed with one of the most well-respected families in ...

“The author knows more about Lincoln than any other living person,” a distinguished Civil War historian, James McPherson, writes of Michael Burlingame. Another well regarded Lincoln biographer, Jon ...

"At that point, Lexington was known as the Athens for the South, it's this cultural capital," Heather Gotlib, with Louisville's Frazier History Museum, said. But Gotlib said not everyone held that ...

“This isn’t the South we’re battling,” says an exasperated Abraham Lincoln to one of his soldiers. “It’s my wife.” Indeed, the massed forces of the Confederacy are no match for Cole Escola’s chaotic ...

Cole Escola is the star and creator of Oh Mary!, an upcoming Broadway play about Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln. But there's a twist: Mary is reimagined as a raging alcoholic ...

Cole Escola, the actor and writer whose own webpage says Escola is “trailer trash born and raised in rural Oregon,” has already won positive reviews and sellout audiences during the Off Broadway of ...

Was Mary Todd Lincoln crazy? During her White House years, she was often portrayed as an unstable woman who made her husband's life miserable with her bouts of depression and embarrassed him ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Cole Escola’s madcap comedy about the former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln will begin performances in June. By Michael Paulson “Oh, Mary!,” an ...

The sold-out, twice-extended Off Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! will transfer to Broadway this summer, producers announced today. Written by and starring Cole Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton, the play ...