Reginald Rose knew the compelling nature of courtroom drama – Americans hung on every detail of the trials of Leopold and Loeb and the Lindberg kidnapping. Following his own stint on jury duty, Rose earned the title of father of the courtroom drama with Twelve Angry Men,… Read More
The Monty-Pythonesque opening of playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Revolutionary War drama does not prepare you for the weight of Jefferson’s Garden. The ensemble play brilliantly stages a sweeping study of how America won its battle for universal freedom . . . ultimately without granting universal freedom. Jefferson’s Garden is a drama… Read More
Aptly, given the energetic, even fitful nature of ragtime music (Wikipedia calls it “syncopated”), Ragtime the musical– now playing at Ford’s Theatre— offers an energetic, fitful snapshot of New York at the turn of the century. There’s the wealthy white suburban family, where “Mother” suffers… Read More
I remember the year my boyfriend took me to see Hedda Gabler for Valentine’s Day. A play where the heroine shoots herself in the head at the end wasn’t perhaps the most romantic, but if tragic love is your calling, then don’t miss Edward Albee’s… Read More
Want to scoop up tickets to some of the area’s hottest plays totally FREE??! A new partnership between Ford’s Theatre and TodayTix is offering over 1700 performance tickets free of charge. This new mobile lottery will launch one week before the first preview of each… Read More
Nearly every American over the age of, say, 20, remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard the news that a passenger jet had crashed into the World Trade Center the morning of September 11, 2001. “Come From Away,” a… Read More
They say it’s a play about confidence and courtship, that it evokes Americana, that it makes a point about dreams and their impact on our lives. Those weren’t exactly my takeaways from 110 In the Shade, a new musical based on N. Richard Nash’s play The… Read More
It was announced today that the Ford’s Theatre 2016-2017 season will begin with the new musical Come From Away directed by Christopher Ashley. Haven’t heard of that one? Don’t worry. There’s a lot of classic theatre and exciting features to check out in the iconic venue’s… Read More
Art is a portal, and in Jessica Dickey’s world premiere meta-meta comedy The Guard, that doorway is both literal and figurative. It’s a play about a painting about a philosopher . . . but isn’t, using a masterpiece and our feelings toward it to capture… Read More
