Richard Thomas to star in North American Tour of ‘Mark Twain Tonight!’

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NETworks Presentations announced today that Emmy-Award Winning Actor Richard Thomas will star in a new production of Mark Twain Tonight! on stages across North America, beginning in the 2025-2026 season.

Richard Thomas is the first and only actor authorized to perform the play, written and originally performed by Hal Holbrook.

The tour is expected to begin fall 2025. Creative team, tour dates and venues will be announced later. For more information, please visit www.TwainPlay.com

Mark Twain’s wry humor and irreverent observations led to his being called “the nation’s one true comic genius” (The New York Times). Millions have cheered for the legendary one-man show, bursting with Twain’s “uproariously funny” and “pungently wise” (Time Magazine) commentary.

Most recently seen on Broadway in Our Town, on tour as “Atticus Finch” in To Kill a Mockingbird, and on Netflix’s OzarkRichard Thomas is beloved to generations as John-Boy Walton.

Facts about Mark Twain Tonight!

  • Written and performed for more than six decades on Broadway, on tour and on television by Hal Holbrook
  • Played over 2,300 performances, to an audience of more than 2 million people nationwide.
  • 2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the Broadway premiere

RICHARD THOMAS won an Emmy Award and received multiple Golden Globe Award nominations for his starring role as “John-Boy Walton” in the television drama The Waltons. He is most recognizable to contemporary television audiences for his roles in the hit series Ozark, The Americans, Billions, and the original Stephen King mini-series It. His feature film performances include The Unforgivable, Wonder Boys, Last Summer, Red Sky at Morning, and Taking Woodstock. He has been seen in acclaimed performances on stage including the revival of The Little Foxes, for which he received a Tony Award nomination, Our Town, You Can’t Take it With You, The Great Society, Race, Democracy, Incident at Vichy (Drama Desk Award nomination), The Stendhal Syndrome (Lucille Lortel Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, An Enemy of the People, Tiny Alice, The Front Page, The Fifth of July, innumerable Shakespeare productions, and his professional debut at 8 years old in Sunrise at Campobello. Across the country he has starred in the national tours of The Humans (Elliot Norton Award), Twelve Angry Men, and for three years as “Atticus Finch” in Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Richard previously served as the Honorary Chair of the National Corporate Theatre Fund, a position also held by his predecessor Hal Holbrook.

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