Off-broadway play asks its audience to vote on Nixon’s complicity in Watergate He’s not a crook. At least that is what most audiences of an off-Broadway play about President Richard M. Nixon — starring famed impersonator Rich Little — think of the late, disgraced Watergate figure. The show puts the audience of “Trial on …
Was Richard Nixon driven from office by a conspiracy of prosecutors, judges, Democratic congressmen, and the media for crimes he didn’t commit? An off-Broadway play that premiered over the weekend, Trial on the Potomac, uses historical documents to consider whether Nixon is innocent of covering up the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. At the …
What if Richard Milhous Nixon did not resign as President of the United States in August 1974 and, instead, fought for his political life in a U.S. Senate impeachment trial? This is the big question that George Bugatti poses in his play Trial on the Potomac. This new drama is enjoying a limited run Off-Broadway, through September …
One cannot help but be intrigued by a reproduction of a part of history that has taken place years ago, and in this particular case, I am thinking of a play that I had the privilege of attending a couple of nights ago titled “Trial on the Potomac”. The theme of the play was the …
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Trial on the Potomac By George Bugatti Directed by Josh Iacovelli Theater at St. Clement’s Through Sept. 4, 2021 By Lauren Yarger Rich Little as Richard Nixon. Photo: Steve Bergman We all remember the scandal: Richard Nixon left the White House in disgrace following investigative reports by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and …
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Darryl Reilly, Critic Richard Nixon did not resign in 1974, and instead was tried in the United States Senate, are the conceits of playwright George Bugatti’s uproarious, inventive and factual Watergate fantasia, Trial on the Potomac: The Impeachment of Richard Nixon. Based on Nixon lawyer Geoff Shepard’s 2015 book The Real Watergate Scandal, Mr. Bugatti crafts a …
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