a new dustin lance black play about the government's challenge to proposition-8.y next guest is one of the performers and no stranger. bradley, it's good to have you onset. >> good to be here. >> let's talk about this. the cast is really incredible. i you've got morgan freeman, john lithgow, yourself. explain how you all got involved in this? >> this play is an account based on transcripts of the challenge in to the prop 8. law. and i was asked to do it. i have tremendous impatience with this issue. i can't believe with all the problems we're facing that we're still having an argument about whether two people should commit to each other. and this is a great way. they've tried to suppress the television -- they filmed these court proceedings and this is a way to get the word out on what was said. >> last night, i had the great pleasure of being at a book signing party with bruce cohen who said that you have the best part in the play. because in the play, you get to play the part of attorney charles cooper, who argues in favor of banning gay marriage. and there's a

written by dustin lance black, the play challenges the courtroom ban, a case deeming prop 8 unconstitutional others gathered together. rob, thank you so much for coming on the show. up until this play, no one really knew exactly what went on inside that courtroom. so tell me about "8" and why it was so important to you to tell this story. >> well, we feel that this is the last big piece of the civil rights puzzle that is being put into place. the gay community is the one with community in america that is treated less under the law. we brought a federal lawsuit to proposition 8, which was the initiative that passed in california disallowing gays to marry, they had that right. we felt it was constitutional. we brought it to court with david boyce and ted olsen, the two guy that's opposed each other in bush versus gore. they teamed up and we won the case in a federal court. now, there were cameras in the court, but the supreme court said that we were not allowed to show those videotapes, nobody was allowed to see what happened in there. we felt that this is a very important case, along the line

written by oscar winning screen writer dustin lance black, the play chronicles the trial and the federal foundation we started to put forth the court challenge. we have teld olson and david boies together, the two guys that opposed each other in bush/gore. they have those rights. they were deemed unconstitutional by prop 8. we made a court challenge. we presented a case in district court and we won. and which basically deemed prop 8 unconstitutional. however, because there were no cameras allowed, there were cameras, but they were not allowed to be televised, lance black said, i think it's important. this is a seminole case. like brown versus the board of education. the last big piece of the civil rights puzzle to allow the one community in america that doesn't have equal protection under the law is the gay community. proposition 8 is taking those rights away. we wanted the public to be able to see what happened in that courtroom. so lance black took the transcripts, made a compilation and culled it down to an hour and 30 minutes and we've got this play. >> so you put the prop 8 decision