Theater: 2007-2008 Events

Upcoming Events

• Disney's The Lion King

  Jun 26 - Aug 24, 2008 | Buy Now
  Winner of six 1998 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Disney's The Lion King makes its D.C. premiere featuring direction and costumes by Julie Taymor and music by Elton John and Tim Rice.

• Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter - Fund for New American Plays

  Jul 19 - 27, 2008 | Buy Now
  The Tony Award–winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival performs this captivating story about a wounded marine back from Iraq, who finds herself adrift in the California desert.

Past Events

• My Trip to Al-Qaeda

  Sep 22 - 27, 2007
  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright performs his gripping, highly personal narrative that weaves the details of Al-Qaeda's rise to power into a compelling, eye-opening story.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Barbara Cook

  Oct 19 - 20, 2007
  For one performance only, Broadway legend Barbara Cook kicks off a theater cabaret performance series named in her honor.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Judy Kuhn

  Oct 26, 2007 at 7:30 PM
  Three-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn performs in this theater cabaret performance series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Lillias White

  Nov 16, 2007 at 7:30 PM
  Tony winner Lillias White performs her program My Guy Cy in this theater cabaret performance series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• Happy Days with Fiona Shaw - The National Theatre of Great Britain

  Nov 23 - 29, 2007
  Fiona Shaw stars with Tim Potter in London's Royal National Theatre production of Samuel Beckett's absurdist play that reflects the existential terror and wild humor of modern life.

• My Fair Lady

  Dec 27, 2007 - Jan 20, 2008
  The acclaimed West End production of Lerner & Loewe's beloved musical comes to the Kennedy Center, featuring the classic songs "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," and many more.

• August Wilson's 20th Century: Gem of the Ocean

  Mar 4 - 30, 2008
  This is the haunting tale of a spiritually tormented young man who pays a visit to Aunt Ester, a former slave, on the eve of her 287th birthday. On his way to the mythic City of Bones, he makes startling discoveries about guilt, duty, and redemption.

• August Wilson's 20th Century: Joe Turner's Come and Gone

  Mar 6 - 30, 2008
  Released from many grueling years on a plantation chain gang, Herald Loomis journeys north in search of a new life. With his young daughter, he struggles to find his place--and his long-lost wife--while staying in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse.

• August Wilson's 20th Century: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

  Mar 9 - Apr 1, 2008
  Chicago blues legend Ma Rainey sets out to record her latest album in the only one of Wilson's 10 plays set beyond Pittsburgh. As generational and racial tensions escalate among her band and producers, the studio soon explodes in violence and tragedy.

• August Wilson's 20th Century: The Piano Lesson

  Mar 12 - Apr 2, 2008
  Bearing the carved faces of her enslaved ancestors, Berniece's antique piano is her family's most treasured heirloom. Though it sits unused, the option to sell it for land sparks a fierce debate with her brother Boy Willie, a Mississippi sharecropper.

• August Wilson's 20th Century: Seven Guitars

  Mar 14 - Apr 3, 2008
  "Everybody got a time coming," says one of the central characters in this exploration of life and death. Through flashbacks, seven friends and neighbors face the sobering reality of mortality and the pain of losing those they love.

• August Wilson's 20th Century: Fences

  Mar 16 - Apr 4, 2008
  Once a famous baseball player, Troy Maxson is a proud garbage collector, father, and husband. When his youngest son is offered a football scholarship, Troy must reconcile his anger at past racial inequities with wanting the best for his family's future.

• August Wilson's 20th Century: Two Trains Running

  Mar 20 - Apr 5, 2008
  Regulars at Memphis Lee's lunch counter gossip, sermonize and wax poetic on the stories of the day. Learning the city is to demolish their favorite gathering spot in the wake of urban renewal, these colorful souls contemplate where next to seek salvation.

• August Wilson's 20th Century: Jitney

  Mar 22 - Apr 5, 2008
  At a ramshackle taxi depot, the men who drive gypsy cabs, or "jitneys," strive to find honor and accomplishment in a harsh world. When the station owner's estranged son returns from prison, their reunion unleashes two decades of brutal, raw emotion.

• August Wilson's 20th Century: King Hedley II

  Mar 23 - Apr 6, 2008
  An ex-con tries to rebuild his life by selling stolen refrigerators and robbing the neighborhood jeweler so he can buy a video store. But grand dreams for his wife and unborn child are threatened by a system that's not about to play by his rules.

• August Wilson's 20th Century: Radio Golf

  Mar 28 - Apr 6, 2008
  Harmond Wilks's revitalization project will make him Pittsburgh's first black mayor. And his radio host partner advocates golf as deliverance in the era of Tiger Woods. But a hold-out on their real estate deal forces them to question their methods.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner

  Apr 11, 2008 at 7:30 PM
  The two Tony nominees and Kennedy Center favorites come together in this theater cabaret performance series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• ¡Gaytino! - A Remarkable Life Journey in Story and Song, starring Dan Guerrero

  Jun 17 - 18, 2008
  A father/son relationship and a treasured boyhood friendship drive Dan Guerrero's one-man autobiographical play through decades of Chicano history and the gay experience from a unique and personal perspective.

• the UnPOSSESSED - Double Edge Theatre

  Jun 21 - 22, 2008
  Double Edge Theatre adapts Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote, fusing its own intimate performance method with popular and circus arts, including aerial theater, shadow puppets, stilts, commedia dell'arte, and live original music.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Brent Barrett: "Bernstein on Broadway"

  Jun 28, 2008 at 7:30 PM
  Broadway regular Brent Barrett performs in this theater cabaret performance series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

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