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 conversations around the work. This year’s festival marks a follow-through on our commitment to BIPOC artists, with readings of the remaining works of our inaugural class of commissions. We will also share the first reading from our second cohort. With A First Look, Ford’s gives audiences an unparalleled inside peek at the process and voices that shaped these works.
Readings will include A Designer of Note, A Woman of Style by Charlayne Woodard, directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, about the life of fashion designer Ann Lowe; SISTER X by Nambi E. Kelley, directed by Hana S. Sharif, about a young mother’s quest to share her life’s challenges with Malcolm X; and The American Five by Chess Jakobs, directed by Aaron Posner, which explores present-day biases and racial discord inside a graduate classroom. Learn more about each play below.
Senior Artistic Advisor Sheldon Epps, Director of Artistic Programming José Carrasquillo and The Ford’s Theatre Legacy Commissions Advisor Sydné Mahone lead the initiative.
Once On This Island (6/1/24-6/30/24)
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Little Shop of Horrors (3/15/24-5/18/24)
Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard (9/23/23-10/15/23)
SHOUT SISTER SHOUT! (3/15/23-5/13/23)
Guys & Dolls (3/12/23-5/22/23)
The Ford's Theatre Legacy Commissions: A First Look (2/2/23-2/4/23)
A Christmas Carol (11/18/22-12/31/22)
The Trip to Bountiful (9/23/22-10/16/22)
Grace (3/19/22-5/14/22)
Videos
The Matchbox Magic Flute
Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/21 - 6/16) | ||
Funny Girl
Kennedy Center [Opera House] (6/25 - 7/14) | ||
Mummy in the Closet: Evita's Return
GALA Hispanic Theatre (5/9 - 6/9) | ||
Pasión y Fuego: The Music of Spain
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (6/15 - 6/15) CONCERT
PHOTOS
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Rockville Musical Theatre presents The Little Mermaid
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (6/28 - 7/14) | ||
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Mosaic Theater (4/9 - 10/6) | ||
Rose: You Are Who You Eat
Woolly Mammoth Theatre (6/5 - 6/23) | ||
Is God Is
Constellation Theatre Company (6/13 - 7/14) | ||
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