George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Play on CNN: How to Watch

For those who can’t make it to Broadway, George Clooney‘s Good Night, and Good Luck Broadway play will air for one night on CNN.

The Tony-nominated play starring Clooney, 64, as journalist Edward R. Murrow will air its penultimate performance at the Winter Garden Theatre live on Saturday, June 7 at 7 p.m. ET. across CNN properties.

The event is a historic first as no live Broadway performance has ever been televised.

“I can’t tell you how exciting it is to do something that’s never been done,” Clooney shared in a statement about the televised event. “CNN is the perfect place to bring this story of courage to so many more people than we could have ever hoped. Live TV. No net. Buckle up everyone.”

“Good Night, and Good Luck is not just a celebration of a golden age in TV journalism,” added Chairman and CEO of CNN, Mark Thompson. “It’s also about the importance of the free press and the need for strong news organizations to report the facts in a fair-minded way. That’s something we still care deeply about.”

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Nominated for five Tony Awards and directed by Tony winner David Cromer, Good Night, and Good Luck has become the highest-grossing play in Broadway history, and the first play to surpass a gross of $4 million in a single week.

The production marks Clooney’s Broadway debut, and comes 15 years since the hit 2005 movie about CBS news journalist Murrow’s legendary 1954 exposé on Senator Joseph McCarthy. Clooney directed the film version, in which he played Fred W. Friendly.

Clooney stars as Murrow onstage and cowrote the stage adaptation with Grant Heslov.

The two previously collaborated on the film’s screenplay, nabbing a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination in the process. Clooney was also nominated that year for directing Good Night, and Good Luck, as well as for his supporting acting work in Syriana. The latter won Clooney his only acting Oscar.

During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Feb 18, Clooney opened up about why it was the right time to bring Good Night, and Good Luck to Broadway — a play Colbert described as being about “a man in journalism standing up against both corporate and political interests.”

“Grant and I… wrote this 20 years ago because I was being called a traitor in the country for being against the war in Iraq,” Clooney said. “Forever, we’ve had this issue where power kind of hates the fourth estate, they hate journalism. And my father’s an anchorman and a newsman and we’ve always believed in the idea that when the other three estates — the judiciary branch, the executive branch [and the legislative branch] — when the all fail you, you need that fourth estate. And this is a moment of us at our best. And I like the idea of seeing ourselves at our best, I think that’s an exciting thing to do.”

Tickets for Good Night, and Good Luck are now on sale. The play wraps up its limited run on Sunday, June 8.