Editing Edwin Booth (section)

==Dramatizations==
[[File:Oliver Ingraham Lay - Edwin Booth as Hamlet - 1887.jpg|thumbnail|left|upright=0.8| ''Edwin Booth as Hamlet, 1887'' by [[Oliver Ingraham Lay]]]]
A number of modern dramatizations have been made of Edwin Booth's life, on both stage and screen.

One of the best known is the 1955 film ''[[Prince of Players]]'' written by [[Moss Hart]], based loosely on the popular book of that name by Eleanor Ruggles. It was directed by Philip Dunne and stars [[Richard Burton]] and [[Raymond Massey]] as Edwin and Junius Brutus Booth Sr., with [[Charles Bickford]] as Prescott, producer of their Shakespeare tour. The cast also includes [[Eva Le Gallienne]], who plays Gertrude to Burton's Hamlet, and who is listed on the opening credits as "Special Consultant on Shakespearean Scenes". The film depicts events in Booth's life well before, and then surrounding, the assassination of Lincoln by Booth's younger brother.<ref>Shattuck, Charles H. "[https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-American-Stage-Hallams-Edwin/dp/0918016592 Shakespeare on the American Stage: From the Hallams to Edwin Booth]". ''Educational Theatre Journal''. Vol. 29, No. 4. (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Dec. 1977). p. 579.</ref>

The opening scenes of ''Prince of Players'' are very similar to scenes in the earlier 1946 [[John Ford]] western ''[[My Darling Clementine]]''. In that movie, the character of Granville Thorndyke (as acted by [[Alan Mowbray]]) is an obvious nod to Booth's father [[Junius Brutus Booth|Junius]], and the scenes portray essentially the same sequence where the great actor has to be retrieved from a bar and dragged back to the theatre where he is overdue to give a performance in front of a restless audience.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.shakespearegeek.com/2010/08/edwin-booth-prince-of-players.html| title=Edwin Booth: Prince of Players|  date=August 2, 2010| website=Shakespeare Geek, The Original Shakespeare Blog| access-date=March 7, 2017| language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite video| title=To Be or Not to Be... Shakespeare scene - My Darling Clementine (1946)| date=September 6, 2020| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROJP6AGwgEA&ab_channel=snowmanflo| access-date=March 29, 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 1958, [[José Ferrer]] produced, directed, and played the title role in a play ''Edwin Booth''. It ran for three weeks.

In 1959, the actor [[Robert McQueeney]] played Booth in the episode "The Man Who Loved Lincoln" on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]/[[Warner Brothers]] [[Western (genre)|western]] [[television series]], ''[[Colt .45 (TV series)|Colt .45]]'', starring [[Wayde Preston]] as the fictitious undercover agent Christopher Colt, who in the story line is assigned to protect Booth from a death threat.

In 1960, the anthology series television series ''[[Death Valley Days]]'' broadcast "His Brother's Keeper", in which Booth visits a small town after the Lincoln assassination, with one of the town's influential citizens trying to have him run out of town.

In 1966, [[Martin Landau]] played Edwin Booth in the episode "This Stage of Fools" of the [[NBC]] western television series, ''[[Branded (TV series)|Branded]]'', starring [[Chuck Connors]] as Jason McCord. In the story line, McCord takes a job as the bodyguard to the actor Edwin Booth, brother of the presidential assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

''The Brothers BOOTH!'', by W. Stuart McDowell, which focuses on the relationships of the three Booth brothers leading up to the assassination of Lincoln, was workshopped and given a series of staged readings featuring [[David Strathairn]], [[David Dukes]], [[Angela Goethals]], [[Maryann Plunkett]], and [[Stephen Lang (actor)|Stephen Lang]] at the New Harmony Project,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newharmonyproject.org/pastprojects.html |title=The New Harmony Project |publisher=The New Harmony Project |access-date=September 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124025309/http://www.newharmonyproject.org/pastprojects.html |archive-date=November 24, 2015}}</ref> and at [[The Guthrie Theatre]] Lab in [[Minneapolis]], and later presented in New York at the Players' Club, the [[Second Stage Theatre]], and the [[Boston Athenaeum]].  It was given its first fully staged professional production at the Bristol Riverside Theatre outside Philadelphia in 1992.<ref>{{cite news| title='Brothers Booth!' In Bristol| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98659959/philadelphia-daily-news/| newspaper=[[Philadelphia Daily News]]| date=March 13, 1992| access-date=March 29, 2022}}</ref><ref>Buettler, John J. (March 19, 1992). "''The Brothers Booth'' is one of Riverside's Best Premieres". ''The Bristol Pilot''. March 19, 1992.</ref><ref>Bolinsky, Ken. "''Brothers Booth!'' is a Play with Merit at the Riverside". ''Philadelphia Courier Times''.</ref>  A second play by the same name, ''The Brothers Booth'', which focuses on "the world of the 1860s theatre and its leading family"<ref>Dr. Clive Swansbourne, quoted on the cover of ''The Brothers Booth'' by Marshal Bradley. (Authorhouse, 2004).</ref> was written by Marshell Bradley and staged in New York at the Perry Street Theatre in 2004.

[[Austin Pendleton]]'s play, ''Booth'', which depicts the early years of the brothers Edwin, Junius, and John Wilkes Booth and their father, was produced [[off Broadway]] at the York Theatre, starring [[Frank Langella]] as Junius Brutus Booth Sr.  In a review, the play was called "a psychodrama about the legendary theatrical family of the 19th century" by ''The New York Times''.<ref>Brantley, Ben (January 24, 1994). "[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/24/theater/review-theater-acting-up-a-storm-as-a-stormy-actor-known-for-acting-up.html Acting Up a Storm As a Stormy Actor Known for Acting Up]". ''The New York Times''.</ref> Pendleton had adapted this version from his earlier work, ''Booth Is Back'', produced at [[Long Wharf Theatre]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], in the 1991–1992 season.

''The Tragedian'', by playwright and actor Rodney Lee Rogers, is a one-man show about Booth that was produced by PURE Theatre of [[Charleston, South Carolina]], in 2007. It was revived for inclusion in the Piccolo Spoleto Arts Festival in May and June 2008.<ref>Bryan, William (January 23, 2008). "[http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/theater-review--the-tragedian/Content?oid=1112843 Theatre Review: ''The Tragedian'']" ''Charleston City Paper''.</ref>

A play by [[Luigi Creatore]] called ''Error of the Moon'' played off-Broadway on [[Theatre Row (New York City)|Theatre Row]] in New York City from August 13 to October 10, 2010. The play is a fictionalized account of Booth's life, hinging on the personal, professional, and political tensions between brothers Edwin and John Wilkes, leading up to the assassination of Lincoln.<ref>Salz, Rachel (August 30, 2010). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/theater/reviews/31error.html?_r=0 Redrawing a Picture of Lincoln's Assassin]". ''The New York Times''.</ref>

In 2013, [[Will Forte]] played Edwin Booth in the "Washington, D.C." episode of the [[Comedy Central]] series, ''[[Drunk History]]'', created by [[Derek Waters]].

In 2014, Edwin Booth was played by Gordon Tanner in ''[[The Pinkertons]]'' episode, "The Play's the Thing" (S1:E3). In the episode, both the "Hundred nights Hamlet" and Edwin's rescue of Robert Lincoln are mentioned.

In 2023, ''Tyrants'', an original musical about the life of Edwin Booth, was presented at the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives Museum]] in Washington, D.C. With music and lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen and a book by Nora Brigid Monahan, the musical starred A.J. Shively as Edwin Booth, under the direction of John Simpkins.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stoltenberg |first=John |date=October 10, 2023 |title=The Brothers Booth share more than blood in new musical 'Tyrants' |url=https://dctheaterarts.org/2023/10/10/the-brothers-booth-share-more-than-blood-in-new-musical-tyrants/ |access-date=October 18, 2023 |website=DC Theater Arts |language=en-US}}</ref>

Booth was portrayed by Nick Westrate in the 2024 [[Apple TV+]] miniseries series ''[[Manhunt (miniseries)|Manhunt]]''.