The True Story of Mary Todd Lincoln: What Broadway's "Oh, Mary! "Got Right and Wrong About the Troubled First Lady Meredith KileNovember 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM 0 Bettmann Archive/Getty; Michael Loccisano/Getty The real Mary Todd Lincoln vs. Cole Escola in the original cast of 'Oh, Mary!' Cole Escola's Tonywinning play, Oh, Mary!, has cast a satirical new light on the life and legacy of former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, who is currently portrayed on Broadway by 30 Rock's Jane Krakowski Despite her marriage to one of the most revered presidents in U.S.

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Cole Escola's Tony-winning play, Oh, Mary!, has cast a satirical new light on the life and legacy of former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, who is currently portrayed on Broadway by 30 Rock's Jane Krakowski

Despite her marriage to one of the most revered presidents in U.S. history, Mary's life was marred by personal tragedy and mental health struggles

While Escola's play presents a manic caricature of the historical figure, it has opened up new interest in the real-life woman who was unsurprisingly overshadowed in life and death

While much is known and documented about the early American presidents, especially those as noteworthy as Abraham Lincoln, far less history has been recorded about their wives.

However, with the recent success of Cole Escola's Tony-winning Broadway comedy, Oh, Mary!, a new door has been opened to curiosity about Lincoln's enigmatic wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.

Escola's Mary is a farce: a boozy, mercurial, wannabe cabaret star with a closeted husband.

"I wrote myself an email in 2009 with an idea: Abe's assassination wasn't such a bad thing for Mary," the playwright shared in a 2024 interview with W Magazine. "That was the seed."

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Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln and Conrad Ricamora as Abe during the opening night of 'Oh, Mary!' on Broadway on July 11, 2024

Escola admittedly did zero research on the real-life first lady, instead starting with the question, "What would be the dumbest thing that first lady Mary Todd Lincoln could dream of and want with her life?"

"It wasn't like, 'Let me turn history on its head.' It was more like, 'What's a fun frame for what's in my head?' " they told Out in another interview about the show.

Within the comic exaggeration, however, there are some grains of truth. Abraham's sexuality has long been debated, and his wife's deteriorating mental health caused real-life problems during their time in the White House.

So, who was Mary Todd Lincoln, in truth?

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Abraham and Mary Lincoln depicted with sons Thomas (left) and Robert (center)

Born in Lexington, Ky., on Dec. 13, 1818, Mary was the fourth of seven children born to Robert Smith Todd and Elizabeth "Eliza" Parker Todd. Her mother died in childbirth when Mary was just 7 and her relationship with her stepmother, Elizabeth "Betsy" Humphreys, has frequently been described as difficult or strained.

Mary's father was a strong advocate of girls receiving an education, and the future first lady was said to have even more schooling than her older sisters when she proved to be an exceptional student. She spent ages 8 through 13 at the strict Ward's Academy before attending boarding school at Madame Mentelle's French School for Girls.

When Mary was 21, she moved to Illinois to live with her sister, Elizabeth Edwards. It was here that she met her soon-to-be husband, then just an Illinois state representative.

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Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary and Abe's relationship wasn't happily ever after right away. In fact, biographer William H. Herndon wrote that, early in their relationship, Mary would make it a point to be seen walking "arm-in-arm" with Stephen Douglas, Abe's political rival, "in order to fire his passion for her."

Their relationship was also controversial because of the class difference between them. Mary grew up privileged, while Abe was born into poverty and had worked his way to the middle class. Their first engagement was broken off, but they finally married on Nov. 4, 1842. Todd was 23 and Lincoln was 33.

Mary ran their household in Springfield, Ill., while Abe worked and traveled as a lawyer and politician until 1860, when he was elected president.

From there, however, Mary's life seems to have become a series of tragedies, ranging from heartbreaking to life-changing. Two of the couple's four sons, Eddie and Willie, died before reaching adulthood. Only one outlived his mother: her eldest, Robert Todd Lincoln.

Being the first lady during the Civil War was not exactly a glamorous task. Mary was castigated by the public for spending money to redecorate the aging White House during wartime. Her loyalty was questioned as a native of a Confederate state, and her family was forever divided by their allegiances, which was also scrutinized in the press.

When Willie died of typhoid fever at age 12, in 1962, the White House was draped in black, and Mary was inconsolable. Her friend and dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly, wrote that, "The pale face of her dead boy threw her into convulsions."

And of course, on April 14, 1865, Mary was seated next to her husband at Ford's Theatre when John Wilkes Booth shot him in the back of the head. She did not attend the funeral, and it took her six weeks to move out of the White House, with the grace of her husband's successor, Andrew Johnson.

In a letter to Sen. Charles Sumner shortly before her departure, Mary wrote, "I go hence, broken-hearted, with every hope almost in life—crushed."

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Mary Todd Lincoln, in mourning dress

Mary's later years seem to have been equally bleak, plagued with financial trouble and declining mental health. Historians have attempted to diagnose her in retrospect. Some believe she had bipolar disease or narcissistic personality disorder, while others think the circumstances of her life simply began to crush her with depression.

In 1875, her only remaining son, Robert, took her to trial to have her institutionalized against her will. Mary languished in a facility for several months before being released into the care of her sister, Elizabeth.

She fled to France to prevent Robert from locking her up again, but when her health began to decline, she returned to the U.S. and died on July 16, 1882.

Far from the tragedies of dead husbands and domineering sons, Escola's Oh, Mary! allows the troubled first lady out of her historic tomb, allowing her to prance around onstage, chug paint thinner and flash her knickers.

The casting thus far has been gender and race-blind. Following Escola's Tony win for originating the role, GLOW star Betty Gilpin took the reins, followed by Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Tituss Burgess, two-time Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon and, most recently, 30 Rock alum Jane Krakowski.

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It's a freeing show, for the performers onstage, the enraptured audience and the memory of a long-suffering, sometimes-forgotten figure.

"Mary is just me," Escola, who is non-binary, told W Magazine. "She cares so deeply about what people think of her, but she has a huge blind spot and doesn't realize that people actually find her grating and annoying and hate her. And that is me."

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NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps: 'We are trying our hardest' to settle antitrust lawsuit JENNA FRYER October 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM 0 1 / 2NASCAR In The PitsFILE Team owner Michael Jordan looks on during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Darlington Raceway, Aug. 31, 2025, in Darlington, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File) AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps said Friday "we are trying our hardest" to settle the federal antitrust lawsuit with the two teams suing the racing series in the most expansive comments yet from the defendants.

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AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps said Friday "we are trying our hardest" to settle the federal antitrust lawsuit with the two teams suing the racing series in the most expansive comments yet from the defendants.

Phelps read from a statement that ran over six minutes and took no questions on the litigation between 23XI Racing, owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, and Bob Jenkins-owned Front Row Motorsports.

Both sides recently participated in two days of mediation and didn't come to a resolution, but NASCAR had been hoping that continued conversations would lead to a settlement it could announce ahead of Sunday's championship-deciding season finale.

"NASCAR is fully aligned with our race team partners who have submitted declarations hoping to end this litigation," Phelps said at Phoenix Raceway in the annual state of the sport news conference.

"We are trying our hardest. I am trying my hardest both as a fan as well as the commissioner of this sport that I've loved since I was 5 years old. While two out of the 15 teams may not share that view and seem set on an unfortunate court battle, I hope that we can all agree that our racing is as good as it has ever been and we care about how we serve our fans, especially as we look forward to capping off our season by celebrating new champions across all of our national series."

NASCAR this weekend will crown its champions in the Truck Series, Xfinity Series and finally the season-ending Cup Series finale on Sunday. Hamlin is one of four drivers eligible for the winner-take-all title.

The lawsuit was filed a year ago by 23XI Racing, co-owned by NBA Hall of Famer Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Hamlin. Front Row Racing, a much smaller team, aligned with 23XI and they were the only two organizations out of 15 to not sign extensions last year on new charter agreements.

The new charter agreements were presented to the teams at the start of the 2024 playoffs with a deadline for them to sign. It followed over two years of tense negotiations over the charters, which are at the heart of NASCAR's business model as they guarantee revenue and access to weekly races.

23XI and Front Row likely will go out of business without them and are racing this season unchartered, which comes with significantly reduced prize money.

Other teams have called for a settlement to move forward, but mediation sessions and private negotiations have not worked. The trial is scheduled for Dec. 1.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell this week dismissed NASCAR's countersuit against Curtis Polk, the longtime business manager for Jordan and one of 23XI's owners.

NASCAR has routinely refused to discuss the lawsuit but Phelps made an exception Friday with his prepared statement.

"This is not an antitrust case. The 2025 charter agreement is an improvement on the 2016 framework," Phelp said as he read off enhancements that include "over $3 billion in guaranteed payments to the teams, enterprise value that is roughly $1.5 billion now to the race teams, guaranteed starting positions each week that allow teams to sell sponsorship on the best billboards in sports, the Next Gen car, and charters guaranteed for 14 years until at least 2039, plus an obligation to negotiate in good faith beyond that.

"The bottom line here is NASCAR is committed to charters."

Phelps also defended the Florida-based France family who founded the sport in 1948, financially supports it and has grown it into the top motorsports series in the United States.

"The France family started NASCAR in 1948 using their own resources, grit and ingenuity. They have taken countless personal and financial risks, investing billions of dollars and untold hours into growing this sport to create opportunity for teams to race in front of fans for nearly eight decades," Phelps said. "We are proud of what we built for fans together with the race teams, especially since the charters were introduced. ... We'll continue to defend and preserve it.

"Make no mistake, the lawsuit puts this at risk."

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Liam Hemsworth steps into the monster-killing shoes of Geralt in Netflix's "The Witcher" Season 4, taking over after original star Henry Cavill departed after Season 3. The story picks up in the aftermath of last season, with Geralt, Ciri (Freya Allan) and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) all separated and searching for each other.

They've each assembled a new group of allies in their hunt: Geralt has his bard buddy Jaskier (Joey Batey), vampire Regis (Laurence Fishburne) and others on his search; Yennefer leads the sorceresses to find her adopted daughter, Ciri, and lover, Geralt; and Ciri has assumed a new identity as Falka, banded together with the Rats, a group of outlaws, and starts a relationship with a criminal named Mistle (Juliette Alexandra).

Geralt and Yennefer are determined to stop Emperor Emhyr var Emreis (Bart Edwards) from fulfilling an ancient prophecy — which involves marrying his own daughter, Ciri — and gaining enough power to rule the entire Continent. Luckily, they soon realize that the marriage is a sham and Emhyr is holding a fake Ciri hostage to wed. But there are many other threats out there, like the evil wizard Vilgefortz (Mahesh Jadu) who attacks Yennefer's forces in the climactic Battle of Montecalvo. With the help of the other witchers, they defeat Vilgefortz, but Geralt's mentor Vesemir (Peter Mullan) and sorcerer Istredd (Royce Pierreson) both die.

On Ciri's side, the deranged bounty hunter Leo Bonhart (Sharlto Copely) is hot on her and the Rats' trail. In the finale, he corners them and brutally beheads each of the Rats, taking Ciri as his prisoner. Also in the final moments of the show, Geralt is finally knighted after the Battle of the Bridge, and Emhyr sends out a mysterious monster to follow his scent and kill him.

Speaking with Variety, showrunner Lauren Schmidt-Hissrich discusses all those deaths, where Geralt and Ciri will find themselves in the upcoming fifth and final season and much more.

Let's start with Ciri. She's starts the season off with the Rats and grows close to Mistle, which is portrayed very differently in the books. Why did you want to introduce a love interest for her?

We definitely wanted to take a page from the books, and we played around with several darker and lighter versions. Where we wanted to land is something that felt like Ciri was actually turning over some of herself to this person, that there was a vulnerability that we'd never been able to see before. That's why we started with it. For the past three seasons, Ciri has been a princess, the most powerful person on the Continent, someone's daughter, someone's granddaughter. What starts to happen when she lives life for herself? And the truth is, is it's not really a storybook romance. It's no "happy ever after" for her. But we did want to give her these moments of questioning. Is this love? Is this what it feels like to be in love? Because these are things that Ciri has never experienced. She's never had the ability to have these normal human experiences, and it doesn't end on a nice note. When she leaves Mistle, everything is thrown into question. She thought that she was able to build up this mask of this person that she wanted to be. The truth is that Mistle always saw through it. Is it love? Is it not love? I don't know that I could answer that.

All of the Rats get gruesomely beheaded by Leo Bonhart. How is that going to stick with Ciri going into the final season?

We made a really conscious decision to not end this season on the characters' higher moments. When we're doing Seasons 4 and 5 back to back, in some ways it feels like one big season that we split. It really is one long journey back toward each other. We thought it would be interesting, as we're chugging toward the end, to put all of our characters in the darkest places imaginable because we know that some redemption is going to come. This is going to be Ciri letting go and touching those deepest, darkest places within herself that she's always pushed away. She's said several times across the series that she worries that there's something wrong with her. She worries that death follows her, that she is a monster inside. Once she deals with the heartbreak and loss of the Rats, we get to see her start to access that for a while. It's her baptism of fire that needs to happen before she can be redeemed.

Speaking of sad deaths, we also get Vesemir back this season, but he goes down swinging in a fight against Vilgefortz. Why was this the right time to say goodbye to him?

People who are fans of the books know that the witchers do appear again in the books. We haven't seen them since Season 2. So we wanted to make sure that we were reintroducing our audience to who these witchers were, their relationship with Geralt, the world, where they see themselves in that hierarchy and the fact that they have always tried to stay neutral in the past. That's something we've seen Geralt go through, his desire to stay neutral and his realization at the end of Season 3 that he can't. So we want his brothers-in-arms to go through a similar experience.

That was the first reason of bringing them in this season. Obviously, they're not in this portion of the books. The bigger thing we needed in terms of deaths, audiences sometimes worry that we kill people just for shock value — and yes, I think Vesemir's death is very shocking — but the more important thing is what it does to the people around him. When Geralt learns about it from Yennefer, we see him taken to a new place. He has lost his father now, and he is pushing to be a father to Ciri, a role that he never expected to step into. When you lose someone important in your world, it makes you reconsider your own priorities. This was the right engine for Geralt at the end of the season, as he's actually experiencing some of his dreams coming true at the end of Season 4. The thing that he's dreamt of the most, becoming a white knight, he's able to get. Yet partially through the death of Vesemir, he knows that time is not on his side. If he is going to reunite his family, he has to give up that dream in order to pursue the dream of family. So it felt like the right time, not just for story and shock, but for Geralt and what he needed.

The death count seems this season seems pretty high. Will next season have around the same number of deaths?

Yes, the death count this season was huge, also think the death count of people who were really important to us. Anyone who's familiar with this source material knows that it's not a happy ending, and I do think that the body count just keeps on growing from here. It feels fitting. Obviously it's going to be a goodbye to the series. We have to start to say some real goodbyes to these characters.

Geralt is finally knighted at the end of this season, officially becoming Geralt of Rivia. How will that help him or hinder him next season?

Since Season 1, Geralt has wanted to be a knight. We see him as a little boy and he's slaying dragons with a wooden sword. We know that this is a deep-seated dream within him. Even when he became a witcher, we start to hear these lessons that Vesemir is trying to impart on him, which is that you don't kill for revenge. You don't kill to be a hero. You kill because you have to. One of the most meaningful things that we were able to express for Geralt this season is the flashback when he explains to Ciri that "Geralt of Rivia" isn't an honorific. It's not his real name. It's one he gave himself to improve his contracts. That is one of the first things that he and Ciri bonded over, where she started to open up to him. For Geralt, it should feel like a moment of celebration and achieving what he always wanted. But for us, it's more proof to show how the character has changed and how his goals have changed over the season. This man who wanted nothing and no one, who wanted to be a part of nothing larger than himself, suddenly gives up his greatest dream in order to pursue his daughter and the woman that he loves. That is the most poignant shift for him that we've seen.

You've spoken a lot already about Liam Hemsworth stepping into Geralt's shoes this season. Was there anything that surprised you about his performance once you began shooting?

On day one, we were all nervous. We all had no idea what to expect. Liam has spoken extensively about putting on the black leathers, contacts and the wig and that process of not becoming yourself. What was most surprising to me when he stepped on set was how comfortable he was and how at ease he was. It was amazing. I know the physical work that he put in, but the mental work that he must have put in to step onto set, not be fidgeting or worried that he was mimicking something — it was incredible. That ease and comfort seeps across both seasons. You really see him comfortable in this character. Honestly, it's the right time for Geralt, who's experiencing these emotions he's never experienced before. Liam got to bring an emotional side to Geralt that we had not seen. In some ways, it's just perfect timing where the new actor came in to a place where this character was in a state of flux.

What I was surprised with is how easily he slipped into the rhythm that we had started to build in Season 1, which is saying things when things needed to be said, knowing when it was the perfect time to just sigh or grunt or say "fuck" and move on. It came so naturally to him. Despite the stories being super heavy, Geralt has a sense of humor and wit about him that feels very authentic, because that's how people move through trauma. You get to see these beautiful moments of bonding, friendship and family amidst the darkness. It was a lovely surprise. It's exactly what we wanted and hoped for.

I loved Regis' animated backstory and Jaskier's musical in the middle of the season. How did you decide to change up the format and present their origin stories like that?

We love to play with structure and form on the show. This was a different chance to do something. It started out of production needs. We had this backstory for Regis that we knew we wanted to tell. We also knew that we did not have the time and resources to tell it the way that it needed to be told. Our episodes are shot across, in general, about 18 days. This was unlike anything we'd done before. We needed to be here for Regis, there for Jaskier, here for Zoltan. We knew we couldn't accomplish it, but what if we actually played with form and the genre of these moments? Regis was the first one that came to be. We could accomplish the breadth and depth of that flashback with animation. That took so much planning. Animation is a much, much slower, more methodical process. We actually started that animation long before we started shooting Season 4. Laurence got to come in for approvals on his character design. It's actually modeled after one of his sons, so it is meant to look like Laurence would look as a young man. Jaskier's came next. I have to say, pitching a musical to Netflix wasn't a swinging yes out of the gate. It took some movement and pushing, but we're so happy with it. There's no better way to tell Jaskier's story.

We meet Nimue (Sha Dessi) this season, who seems like she may cross paths with our main characters. Will we see more of her next season?

We loved setting up Nimue and Stribog the storyteller like a device. It's a way of helping our audience adjust to seeing Liam's face, to seeing this new Geralt. It's a way to revisit moments from the past, to really get our characters together. It's one of the huge reasons that we open the season like that. Otherwise, Ciri, Geralt and Yen are on three different paths. We never see them together. We knew that if we went back into the past, we could have these moments of the family united and remind our audience what they're fighting for. It should feel a little bit like a device at the beginning. By the end of the season, Stribog says to her, "Maybe you have a bigger role in the story. Maybe you are the one who can change the story." Absolutely in Season 5, we're going to be stepping back in Nimue's world a little bit more. We're going to have an understanding of how stories are changed by the storyteller. But if you think about it, Nimue we say is 100 years in the future, so if she's going to intersect in the story, it's a little bit of a hint as to what some of Ciri's powers might be as well.

Can you tease what kind of monster Emhyr is sending after Geralt in the final moments of this season?

One of the things that we had to cope with in Seasons 4 and 5 is that by this point in the books, Geralt really isn't a monster hunter anymore. He's not fighting monsters very often. He has reformulated his goal to solely get to his family. But, of course, we love the monsters, and we know Ciri is the titular witcher of the series and of the books. We know that monster hunting has to stay important to her and her world. So we invented a ton of monsters to putting out there. What we really love is this idea that a monster is specifically coming from Emhyr. Just as Geralt is trying to move forward in Season 5, there's this piece of his past that keeps coming for him.

There was a two and a half year break between Season 3 and 4. Will there be as long of a wait to get to Season 5?

Hopefully shorter. Two and a half years is never ideal. Obviously, we had a writers strike in the middle of that, which really pushed Season 4 back. So fingers crossed. We are working so hard in post, we wrapped almost a month ago. We're we're pushing ahead and hope to be able to deliver it audiences a little bit sooner.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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During her talk show appearance, she revealed that her next goal is to attend the Met Gala

Trisha Paytas knows what she wants next, but she might not know exactly how to get there.

Dressed in her best Beetlejuice costume, the 37-year-old personality appeared on the Thursday, Oct. 30, edition of Watch What Happens Live!, where she revealed a goal she has yet to achieve.

The topic of conversation came up after host Andy Cohen asked Paytas what her "next big dream" is following her limited run in the Broadway return of Beetlejuice the Musical. Paytas is set to appear as Maxine Dean from Nov. 4 to Nov. 23.

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"I think I want to come back to New York and do the Met Gala next year," Paytas told Cohen. "I don't know how or when, but maybe."

After Cohen advised that "you just get to Anna," referring to the former editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour, Paytas hilariously responded, "Okay. Anna who?"

With an eruption of laughter from the audience, Cohen explained, "Anna, the gal who controls the list over at the Met."

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An embarrassed Paytas responded, "Omg. From Vogue. Right."

"From Vogue, yes," Cohen assured her, to which she said, "Right. I'm so sorry. I'm just nervous, but yes. Put in a good word for me."

The segment ended with Cohen jokingly telling Paytas he would put in a good word with Wintour and inviting her to come back on the show, since her appearance was from behind the bar.

The Met Gala was founded in 1948 by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert, designed to be an exclusive gala dinner to raise money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit's annual exhibits.

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Anna Wintour attends the the 2022 Met Gala celebrating In America: An Anthology of Fashion at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022

Dubbed "fashion's biggest night," the Met Gala first introduced themes for designers and their celebrity guests to interpret through fashion in 1973. Wintour began serving as co-chair for the event in 1995 and then later as sole chair in 1999.

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The theme for the Costume Institute's spring 2025 exhibition was "Tailored for You," which, according to Vogue, was "a nod to the exhibition's focus on menswear."

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