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When you've got multiple Helen Hayes Awards nominees listed in your cast — as understudies — you know a production isn't exactly going to be lacking in fantastic performers.

In the handy study guide that accompanies the world premiere production of The Heavens Are Hung in Black, now running at the newly reopened Ford’s Theatre, playwright James Still observes that his subject, Abraham Lincoln, is "probably the most written-about person in the world after Jesus." If that’s true, then Still's creaky but still richly rewarding drama more resembles the 16th president's The Last Temptation of Christ than his New Testament: It's a humanizing portrayal that ennobles its mighty subject by cutting him down to size.