Actor Richard Thomas talks taking over role of Mark Twain from Hal Holbrook: Watch During a visit to Elmira, actor Richard Thomas discusses taking over the role of Mark Twain from Hal Holbrook.

For more than six decades, the late, legendary actor Hal Holbrook portrayed an iconic American author, journalist and humorist in "Mark Twain Tonight!" "It's always the material that matters the most, ...

Emmy-winning actor Richard Thomas has moved on from playing one legend -- Atticus Finch in the national tour of "To Kill a Mockingbird" -- to another: 19th-century author and humorist Mark Twain. He's ...

A popular show about legendary author Mark Twain is back in Elmira, but with a new performer. Actor Hal Holbrook wrote and performed Mark Twain Tonight! and played that role for more than 60 years ...

While he was out starring in the national tour of “To Kill a Mockingbird” in 2023-24, Richard Thomas took to reading Mark Twain’s iconic novels “Tom Sawyer and “Huckleberry Finn” to help flesh out his ...