“Abe Lincoln in Illinois” is a 1938 play that is essentially a pre-presidency biography of Abraham Lincoln. It is, amazingly, enlightening to contemporary audiences.

Review: ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS at Berkshire Theatre Group A powerful, timely, highly effective, and entertaining reminder of what “greatness” in democracy and politics looks like.

Abraham Lincoln, played in the third act of Berkshire Theatre Group’s production of “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” by Robert G. McKay, center, is warned by a Union soldier (Julian Tushabe) of the ...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” opened at the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway in 1938 with Raymond Massey as Lincoln, a role he recreated in the 1940 film. The play won the 1939 Pulitzer ...

STOCKBRIDGE — Scenic designer Bill Clarke’s spare rustic setting for director David Auburn's folksy production of Robert E. Sherwood’s “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A contractor cleaning out an old New Hampshire barn destined for demolition found seven reels of nitrate film inside, including the only known copy of a 1913 silent film ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of ...

Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from 1831 to 1837. The federal government reconstructed the village in the 1930s.