Tony Winner Alice Ripley to Celebrate the Holidays as Mary Todd Lincoln in A Civil War Christmas
Tony Award winner Alice Ripley is set to star as Mary Todd Lincoln in the upcoming New York Theater Workshop production of Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas. Some psychologists speculate Lincoln suffered from bipolar disorder, just like Ripley’s character Diana Goodman in the musical Next to Normal. A Civil War Christmas is set on Christmas Eve in 1864 and features reflections on the Civil War a…