George Clooney’s Broadway debut, “Good Night, and Good Luck,” has been one of the sensations of the 2024-25 theater season, breaking box office records and drawing packed houses of audiences eager to see the popular movie star in a timely drama about the importance of an independent press.

Now the play will become much more widely available: CNN is planning to broadcast the penultimate performance, on June 7 at 7 p.m. Eastern. The performance will be preceded and followed by coverage of, and discussion about, the show and the state of journalism.

“We were looking at taking the play on the road, and taking it to London, and taking it to Paris,” Clooney said in an interview on Thursday, adding, “but we also thought it never is going to be exactly what it is right now, with the same cast, and we thought it would be nice to have a record of it.

“And then we thought, because the newscasts are all done live, it is the perfect thing to try to create on live television, which is always exciting — there no safety net, and it’s a fun thing to do.”

Clooney said that he expects the play will be available to stream after the live broadcast, but that he does not yet know where. “That’s what we’re still working on right now,” he said. “The question is where does it go from here, and we’ve had three different offers and we’re negotiating to find out what the best position is.”

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The Broadway production of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” which began performances in March, is adapted from the 2005 film about a confrontation between the television journalist Edward R. Murrow and Joseph R. McCarthy, the crusading anti-communist senator from Wisconsin.