George Mason University’s ‘Luther’s Trump’ will stretch your imagination with its “hybrid” production
Frost/Nixon on Broadway and Ron Howard’s film adaptation, in which Reston was portrayed by Sam Rockwell.Over the past five decades, Reston has established himself as a prolific author of popular books on a wide range of historical and political themes — including this year’s 9/11 novel The Nineteenth Hijacker and at least two others he’s adapted for the stage, 1994’s Galileo: A Life, which became the play Galileo’s Torch, and 2015’s Luther’s Fortress: Martin Luther and His Reformation Under Siege.First performed in 2018, Luther’s Trumpet is a work of imaginative history focused on the dramatic years after Martin Luther famously nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a German church in 1516, eventually giving birth to Protestantism and the