Richard Thomas in Mark Twain Tonight! By Hal Holbrook

Emmy-Award® winning Actor Richard Thomas brings to life “the nation’s one true comic genius” (The New York Times) in Mark Twain Tonight!, written and originally performed by Hal Holbrook. Join the millions who have cheered for the legendary one-man show, bursting with Twain’s “uproariously funny” and “pungently wise” (Time Magazine) humor.

Most recently seen on Broadway in Our Town, on tour as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, on Netflix’s Ozark, and beloved to generations as John-Boy Walton, Richard Thomas is the first and only actor authorized to perform the play since the original.

Enjoy a pre-show talk, Mark Twain in His Time (and Ours), presented by Jim O’Loughlin, Professor of English and Head of the Department of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa.
A noted scholar of Mark Twain, O’Loughlin has taught and published on Twain’s work. He recently contributed to the 2025 Mark Twain Desk Calendar (NAR Press) and is the author of the science fiction novel The Cord(BHC Press), in which a robot trained on Twain’s collected writings plays a central role.


Jim O'Loughlin

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