Check out the video below to hear Johnston talk about fitting Field for Mary Todd’s dresses. Keep reading for more on Field and Day-Lewis as Lincoln. Johnston said that Field, to completely ...

Mary T. & Lizzy K. runs through May 5, 2013, at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Illustration by Jody Hewgill. Elizabeth Keckley was born into slavery in 1818 in Virginia.

The play "Oh, Mary!" makes its Broadway debut tonight. The story's main character is Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of ... I'm wearing a dress. It's not supposed to be like, I'm wearing a dress ...

Much was made of Melania Trump's dresses, her enigmatic smiles ... public opinion has found no First Lady more wanting than Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln. Her husband, who emancipated ...

There is a blue velvet dress [the real] Mary Todd Lincoln wore—not that night to the theater, but it was a big inspiration for me with the color. Our color is this aqua, which is also this ...

"Oh, Mary!" may be Broadway's most unlikely offering this season, a wildly over-the-top, not-at-all historically accurate look at first lady Mary Todd Lincoln ... wearing a dress, right, Gramma?'" ...