Waterston, who has played Lincoln on several occasions, will recreate the politician's famous 1860 anti-slavery speech, which was delivered in Cooper Union's Great Hall. The event commemorates the publication of Harold Holzer's new book, "Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President" (Simon & Schuster). Waterston has portrayed America's 16th President on stage (Lincoln Center's Abe Lincoln in Illinois) and on television (the mini-series "Lincoln"), and provided the voice of Lincoln for the Ken Burns documentary "The Civil War."
He is due on stage this summer in a Central Park production of Much Ado About Nothing.
