The Historic Ford's Theatre in downtown Washington is marking its reopening, as well as the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, with the world premiere of The Heavens Are Hung in Black, a historical drama by James Still.

The Washington Post has hailed Robin's performance as Mary Todd Lincoln, including "an excellent cast, particularly in Robin Moseley's elegant account of Mary Todd Lincoln, who in some portrayals can come across as an unrelieved downer. Courtesy of Still's humane rendering, Moseley sweeps us up in the wake of a woman stricken to near-hysteria over the death of her son Willie, and yet not so enveloped in mourning that she can't see what the trials of the office are doing to her husband."

Robin Moseley was a company member with the Alley Theatre in Houston for 6 years, and for two years with the Denver Center Theatre Company. She has appeared both on Broadway (The Sisters Rosensweig) and Off (Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center) and at over 15 regional theaters across the country, most recently in The Glass Menagerie at ACT in San Francisco. She has appeared on Law & Order, Law & Order Special Victims Unit, and As The World Turns, and in the films Manhunter, The Juror, and The Sky’s No Limit. Her other Broadway credits include Pygmalion, Faith Healer, Heartbreak House and A Small Family Business.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Robin Moseley
 

Photo: Lois Raimondo -- The Washington Post
 
   
David Selby as Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre
     
 
 
All photographs are © David Rodgers