For Immediate Release: April 6, 2025
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Theatre Communications Group Celebrates the Publication of Hillary and Clinton by Lucas Hnath
A sharp, provocative exploration of power, partnership, and political ambition, now available from TCG Books
New York, NY – Theatre Communications Group (TCG) celebrates the publication of Hillary and Clinton by acclaimed playwright Lucas Hnath, now available from TCG Books. A “Machiavellian meditation on the sacrifices politicians will make to reach office” (The Economist), this gripping and imaginative play offers a strikingly timely reflection on power, identity, and public life.
Set in an alternate 2008, Hillary and Clinton follows a woman named Hillary Clinton as she navigates a struggling presidential campaign in Iowa against a more charismatic opponent known only as “The Other Guy.” Turning to her husband Bill for help, Hillary agrees to a deal that proves far more complex and consequential than she anticipated.
With characteristic precision and wit, Hnath crafts a layered and deeply human examination of ambition and the cost of leadership in a political landscape that feels uncannily familiar. Critics have hailed the play as “an audacious, whip-smart, highly entertaining piece of writing” (Chicago Tribune).
“Hillary and Clinton invites us to interrogate not only the nature of political power, but the personal negotiations and sacrifices that shape it,” said Alisha Tonsic, Co-Executive Director of National Operations and Business Development at TCG. “Lucas Hnath’s writing is both incisive and theatrical, offering a bold lens through which to consider the world we are living in.”
Critics have widely praised Hillary and Clinton for its insight and theatrical ingenuity:
“[Hillary and Clinton] is asking us to see the world through the eyes of a woman who ostensibly has all the right stuff to be president and yet is never allowed to win.” - Ben Brantley, New York Times
“In many ways, Hillary and Clinton is about public and private selves…a fantasy of closing that gap.” - Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Provocative and poignant, smart and funny…a bold theatrical speculation.” - Mark Shenton, New York Theatre Guide
“The therapy…isn’t for the Clintons; it is for us.” - Jesse Oxfeld, New York Stage Review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lucas Hnath’s plays include Hillary and Clinton, Red Speedo, The Christians, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, Isaac’s Eye, Death Tax, and A Doll’s House, Part 2. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Kesselring Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, the Steinberg Playwright Award, an Obie Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama. He is a New Dramatists Playwriting residency alumnus, a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
Hillary and Clinton
by Lucas Hnath
120 pages | $17.95
Published by Theatre Communications Group
Publication Date: March 10, 2026
ISBN: 9781636702605
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