FORD'S THEATRE

The Ford’s Theatre Legacy Commissions: A First Look  is a free, two-day festival, providing a preview of new plays in development, with opportunities for expanded ...

This timely and poignant world premiere production is part of our ongoing Ford's Theatre Legacy Commissions program. Playwright Pearl Cleage explores the election of Maynard ...

The slickest high rollers are in town, and they’re depending on Nathan Detroit to score a secret spot for their floating craps game. Throw in ...

Inspired by Gayle F. Wald’s book  Shout, Sister, Shout! , this new musical tells the story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe—one of America’s most influential rock, ...

Ford’s Theatre presents a new artistic initiative for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) playwrights that will broaden the American theatre canon. Experience the ...

Join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future as they lead the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on a journey of transformation and redemption. Originally conceived ...

A world-premiere musical by Nolan Williams, Jr., celebrating African-American food, family and tradition. Packed with an eclectic mix of styles including jazz, R&B, rousing up-tempos ...

Created by celebrated D.C. composer Nolan Williams, Jr., with a book by Nolan Williams, Jr. and Pulitzer-prize nominated writer Nikkole Salter, "Grace" examines the little-told ...

On MARCH 18, professors and historians Tamika Y. Nunley (upcoming book: At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Self-making in Washington, D.C.) and Martha ...

On MARCH 4, David Rubenstein moderates a discussion with former U.S. Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis and former U.S. Secretary of State Rex W. ...

On FEBRUARY 25, Ford's Theatre Senior Artistic Advisor Sheldon Epps and actor Erik King (Showtime's Dexter; Ford's Twelve Angry Men) discuss the triumphs and challenges ...

In time for the holiday season and in partnership with WAMU 88.5 FM, Fords Theatre presents a one-hour radio play adaptation of Charles Dickenss "A ...

Bustling with gamblers, gangsters, and sassy showgirls, GUYS AND DOLLS celebrates Broadway's golden era with one of the greatest scores ever written for a musical ...

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. ...

Winner of the New York Drama Critic's and Tony® Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy ...

Ease on down the road with Dorothy and her friends Scarecrow, Tinman and Lion on their quest to meet The Wiz. In this adaptation of ...

Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker explores the contradictions between our founding fathers’ ideals and the realities of freedom in America. Christian, a Quaker pacifist, defies his family ...

Come From Away is the breathtaking new musical that played record-breaking engagements in San Diego and Seattle-and now it is coming to Ford's Theatre. Written ...

book: N. Richard Nash; lyrics: Tom Jones; music: Harvey Schmidt....

Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and ...

Jessica Dickey; dir: Sharon Ott....

adapt: Richard Hellesen, Mark Ramont from Gregory Boyd, Jack Murphy, Frank Wildhorn; music: Frank Wildhorn; dir: Jeff Calhoun....

James Still....

Ford's Theatre: Rebecca Feldman, Jay Reiss, Rachel Schenkin; lyrics: William Finn; music: William Finn; dir: Peter Flynn....

Ford's Theatre: Brian Crawley; lyrics: Brian Crawley; music: Jeanine Tesori; dir: Jeff Calhoun....

In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of ...

Ford's Theatre: - Michael Stewart; lyrics: Jerry Herman; music: Jerry Herman; dir: Eric Schaeffer....

Ford's Theatre: - Thornton Wilder; dir: Stephen Rayne....

With quick-witted dialogue and a playful score, 1776 dramatizes the impassioned debates of Philadelphia’s Second Continental Congress. As George Washington sends updates from the military ...

In his fourth commission for Ford’s Theatre, playwright Richard Hellesen explores the two documented encounters between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln during a period of ...

Join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future as they lead the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on a journey of transformation and redemption. Originally conceived ...

The Tony Award-winning musical drama Parade features the true story of Leo Frank’s trial and lynching in early 20th-century Atlanta. Ostracized for his faith and ...

Ford’s Theatre presents the world premiere of Liberty Smith, a madcap musical romp through Revolutionary America. A childhood friend of George Washington, apprentice to Benjamin ...

In a series of charming, humorous and poignant vignettes, Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children weaves a captivating tapestry of family secrets, small-town life and private ...