As a play with parallels to today’s political climate had its official Broadway premiere, famous friends celebrated its star, George Clooney. He brushed aside talk of a political future.

George Clooney's friends across Hollywood came out to support him on Thursday night for the opening night of his play, "Good Night, and Good Luck."

History often repeats on Broadway, where revivals and remakes dominate over the new. But the stage adaptation of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” starring George Clooney as Edward R. Murrow, speaks so directly to the present moment that if the story weren’t true — and the film hadn’t already been made in 2005 — it would seem almost pandering.