George Clooney Supports Friend Richard Kind at All In Ahead of His Own Broadway Debut

The Oscar winner stopped by the romantic comedy on Jan. 9, and TH has all the exclusive details from backstage

George Clooney visiting Richard Kind backstage at Broadway’s All In in New York City on Jan. 9, 2025.

George Clooney enjoyed a night out on Broadway.

Ahead of his own debut on the Great White Way, the Oscar winner visited the cast of All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich on Thursday, Jan. 9, including longtime pal Richard Kind. TH has exclusive photos of the two backstage at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.

“George and Richard have been friends for years, so he came to support Richard, who was very happy to see him,” a source on the scene tells TH of Clooney, 63, and Kind, 68.

After the two “caught up” backstage, Clooney “talked with the rest of the cast,” telling Chloe Fineman, Fred Armisen and John Mulaney that “they were all fantastic” in the play, per the insider.

“He was so open and kind,” the source continues, adding that Clooney also spoke with members of All In‘s creative team and crew. “He told everyone he loved the show and was very impressed with it.”

George Clooney visiting Richard Kind and John Mulaney backstage at Broadway’s All In in New York City on Jan. 9, 2025.

The insider also says that someone asked the actor if he was affected by the ongoing wildfires raging in Los Angeles. And while Clooney doesn’t live in L.A., “Of course many of his friends and colleagues were [affected], and it was devastating,” the source says.

Clooney will soon be making his Broadway debut in the new play Good Night, and Good Luck as both an actor and writer.

The show, directed by Tony Award–winner David Cromer, is set to kick off with its first preview show on March 12, at the Winter Garden Theatre in N.Y.C.

And on Thursday, Clooney “was telling everyone he’s excited to start rehearsals for his show,” says the source on set.

George Clooney visiting Richard Kind backstage at Broadway’s All In in New York City on Jan. 9, 2025.

Kind, Mulaney, 42, Fineman, 36, and Armisen, 58, are among the rotating, star-studded cast of All In, which also included Renée Elise Goldsberry from Dec. 11 to 29, 2024.

All In is the first Broadway credit for playwright Simon Rich, who previously worked as a writer on Saturday Night Live, and used his hilarious short stories about “dating, heartbreak, marriage and that sort of thing” as a basis for the play.

“Even though the show’s kind of all over the place, it’s meant to tell one simple story: that the most important part of life is who we share it with,” producers previously said in a release. “We hope everybody will relate to it, even if it was their date’s idea to come and they are starting out from a place of quiet resentment.”