Video: Go Inside A WRINKLE IN TIME Rehearsals at Arena Stage
A Wrinkle in Time runs through July 20, 2025, in Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater.
Arena Stage has revealed a first look into rehearsals for their upcoming production of the new musical adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time. In the video, Arena Stage Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif decribes the upcoming musical as "one of the most extraordinary new musicals that we've seen in the last two decades."
Staging this intergalactic voyage will be Nicholas Barrón (New York City Center’s Ragtime) as Calvin, Tony nominee Amber Gray (Broadway’s Hadestown) as Mrs. Whatsit, Taylor Iman Jones (Broadway’s Six) as Meg Murry, Vicki Lewis (Broadway’s Damn Yankees) as Mrs. Which, Mateo Lizcano (Broadway’s Kimberly Akimbo) as Charles Wallace, and Stacey Sargeant (Broadway’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf) as Mrs. Who.
Directed by two-time Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans, A Wrinkle in Time will run June 12 – July 20, 2025, in Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater.
A Wrinkle in Time is an interstellar world-premiere musical adaptation based on the classic novel by Madeleine L'Engle that has captured the hearts and imaginations of generations. The musical features a book by Doris Duke Artist Award recipient Lauren Yee (Cambodian Rock Band) and music and lyrics by two-time Obie Award winner Heather Christian (Oratorio for Living Things.
While experimenting with time travel and The Fifth Dimension, Meg Murry's father disappears. In a race to rescue him, Meg, her friend Calvin, and her younger brother Charles Wallace set off—across galaxies and time itself—to bring him home. Can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space? Guided by stars, shadowed by darkness, and armed only with her intellect, heart, and a few improbable friends…Meg will learn that love is the most powerful force in the universe.
The gravity-defying ensemble for A Wrinkle in Time will include Leanne Antonio (Broadway’s The Lion King), Michael Di Liberto (Broadway’s Tammy Faye), Kimberly Dodson (Broadway’s Summer), Andrea Jones-Sojola (Broadway’s The Music Man), Aidan Joyce (Monumental Theatre Company’s Spring Awakening), Rebecca Madeira (Signature Theatre’s Sweeney Todd), Gabrielle Rice (Signature Theatre’s The Color Purple), Jon Patrick Walker (Hamilton National Tour), Ronald Joe Williams (Arena’s Unknown Soldier), and Jayke Workman (Broadway’s Chicago). The company is rounded out by swings Alex De Bard (Signature Theatre’s Hair), Edward Simon (Signature Theatre’s Ragtime), Dillan James Smith (PAW Patrol Live!), and Alyssa Enita Stanford (Asolo Rep’s Beautiful: The Carole King Musical).
|
Misery Aldie Mill Historic Park (8/20-8/30) |
|
Commedia Christmas Carol (2024) Streaming Traveling Players Ensemble (12/23-12/23) |
|
Natural History Mosaic Theater Company (1/21-2/07) |
|
Interplay Orchestra presents "Time of Our Lives" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (10/07-10/07) |
|
Brontë Sister House Party Van Ness Main Street (8/14-9/12) |
|
Rockville Little Theatre presents "The Game's Afoot" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (9/25-10/04) |
|
Rockville Little Theatre presents "Lettice & Lovage" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (1/29-2/07) |
|
Dupont Investigations: Flight of the Fallen Nocturne Hall (9/01-11/11) |
|
Body Language The Allan Lefcowitz Theater at The Writer's Center (9/25-9/27) PHOTOS |
|
Somewhere over the Border Mosaic Theater Company (9/10-10/04) |