Herbert Mitgang has spent a quarter of a century studying Lincoln. He wanted to create in this one-man show a Lincoln who was historically accurate, but also one who was human: "What had to be avoided was a feeling by the audience that it was watching a play with a lectern at dead-center for high-minded speeches." At this he succeeds. Mitgang's Lincoln moves easily from private citizen to public servant to orator speaking lines destined to live...