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Richard Thomas in Mark Twain Tonight! By Hal Holbrook
The Virginia Theatre
203 West Park Avenue
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 356-9063

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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 in The Waltons, Richard Thomas is the first and only actor authorized to perform the play since the original.
The show runs for approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, with no intermission.
Mark Twain Tonight! is family-friendly, however we do not recommend attendance for children under 5 years of age.
RICHARD THOMAS
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.
