'All the Way': At Arena, a master class in LBJ and the Civil Rights Act

"All the Way," Robert Schenkkan's Tony-winning drama about President Lyndon B. Johnson and the passing of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, is a valentine to that sexiest of wonky Washington buzzwords: process. A civics lesson enlivened by LBJ's rude tongue and Martin Luther King's more eloquent one, the play explores at lavish length the glad-handing, bullying, bargaining and begging it took to get the historic legislation passed and set the nation on a more just and civilized path.