Born in Riverside, Illinois — about three hours from where Abraham Lincoln had lived with his family in Springfield — to ...

Southern Living describes the Mary Todd Lincoln House as a place that’s easy to fit in between restaurants and other things ...

In “Oh, Mary!,” Escola plays a drunken, melodramatic Mary Todd Lincoln who yearns to return to cabaret. By Rachel Sherman Cole Escola won the Tony for best actor in a play for their ...

She was depressed a lot. So it’s clear throughout her whole life.” After her release, Mary Todd Lincoln lived a relatively quiet life, although she remained plagued by both psychiatric and ...

It was a performance that kicked off Burgess' limited three week run in the Sam Pinkleton-directed Broadway hit, which follows the miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up ...

“It’s my wife.” Indeed, the massed forces of the Confederacy are no match for Cole Escola’s chaotic version of Mary Todd Lincoln, a wild-eyed wannabe cabaret star marinated in ...

is an intentionally ridiculous reimagining of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. It portrays her as having become addicted to alcohol, not because of the Civil War, but because she's desperately ...