Theater: 2010-2011 Events

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• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Kelli O'Hara

  Oct 15, 2010 at 7:30 PM | Buy Now
  Three-time Tony Award–nominated actress, singer, and songwriter Kelli O'Hara (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) performs in this theater cabaret performance series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• Chekhov International Theatre Festival: Three Sisters

  Oct 19 - 20, 2010 | Buy Now
  Chekhov International Theatre Festival presents its exclusive North American premiere of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. Performed in Russian with English surtitles.

• Chekhov International Theatre Festival: Twelfth Night

  Oct 22 - 23, 2010 | Buy Now
  Chekhov International Theatre Festival presents its exclusive North American premiere of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Performed in Russian with English surtitles.

• HAIR

  Oct 26 - Nov 21, 2010 | Buy Now
  The tribe of the Age of Aquarius is still protesting the war, freeing their love, letting their hair down, and baring it all in HAIR. "The kids are all right," says the New York Times. "Quite a bit more than all right."

• ON THE FRINGE: A Life in Three Acts

  Oct 28 - 30, 2010 | Buy Now
  The story of celebrated performer and key figure in Britain's post-war gay liberation struggle, Bette Bourne, A Life in Three Acts is more than a memoir. This solo performance by Bourne is a moving celebration of liberation.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Tammy Grimes

  Nov 6, 2010 at 7:30 PM | Buy Now
  Tony Award–winning Broadway, television, and cabaret star Tammy Grimes (The Unsinkable Molly Brown, 42nd Street) performs in this theater cabaret performance series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• ON THE FRINGE: Traverse Theatre Company's Midsummer (A play with songs)

  Nov 11 - 13, 2010 | Buy Now
  Unflinching in its stare at the panic that hits everyone as they approach middle age, Midsummer is a "warm-hearted, beautifully sculpted musical romantic comedy" (The Scotsman).

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Norm Lewis

  Dec 10, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 10/6/10,
  Actor and singer Norm Lewis (Side Show, The Little Mermaid) performs in this theater cabaret performance series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific

  Dec 14, 2010 - Jan 16, 2011 | On Sale 9/10/10,
  Lincoln Center Theater brings their reinvention of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical South Pacific for an enchanting holiday engagement in the Opera House.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Sutton Foster

  Jan 14, 2011 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 10/6/10,
  Tony Award–winning actress and singer Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek, the Musical) performs in this theater cabaret performance series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• DRUID: The Cripple of Inishmaan

  Feb 8 - 12, 2011 | On Sale 12/8/10,
  Famed Irish theater company DRUID presents The Cripple of Inishmaan. Written by Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh and directed by Tony Award winner Garry Hynes, the play chronicles a Hollywood film crew's presence in a rural Irish town.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Ashley Brown

  Mar 25, 2011 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 12/8/10,
  Actress and singer Ashley Brown, fresh from her starring role in both the Broadway and touring productions of Mary Poppins, performs in this theater cabaret performance series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Alexander Gemignani

  Apr 1, 2011 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 2/9/11,
  Actor and singer Alexander Gemignani (Sunday in the Park with George, Les Misérables) performs in this theater cabaret performance series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• Peter Brook's Fragments

  Apr 14 - 17, 2011 | On Sale 2/9/11,
  Revered director Peter Brook, returning to the Kennedy Center for the first time since 1973, brings together five short works by playwright Samuel Beckett for his theater collection, Fragments.

• Follies

  May 7 - Jun 5, 2011 | On Sale 1/30/11,
  Winner of seven Tonys, Follies is one of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's greatest works. All of life's might-have-beens take center stage as two couples rehash past times and favorite songs amid the crumbling magnificence of their old theater.

• Penumbra Theatre Company: I Wish You Love

  Jun 11 - 19, 2011 | On Sale 4/6/11,
  With the Civil Rights Act unsigned, and equality still a dream, one black man was welcomed in houses every week. I Wish You Love looks at the African American community of 1957 through the words and music of one of its heroes, Nat "King" Cole.

• Wicked

  Jun 15 - Aug 21, 2011
  Back by "popular" demand! The New York Times calls Wicked "the defining musical of the decade," and when it last played Washington in 2005, it broke box office records and sold out in record time.

• Next to Normal

  Jun 28 - Jul 10, 2011 | On Sale 4/6/11,
  From the director of Rent comes three-time Tony winner Next to Normal. A story of family members torn between caring for themselves and each other, this musical with a thrilling rock score was deemed "one of the year's ten best" by critics.