Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers has graced Broadway 37 times, most recently in a star-studded 2024 revival with Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler in their Broadway debuts. This production marks the fatal feud between the Montagues and Capulets returning to Shakespeare Theatre Company's mainstage for the first time in over a decade.
Merrily We Roll Along
Sondheim's tale of friendship and ambition unwinds in reverse chronological order, tracing three friends from idealistic youth to cynical middle age. The original 1981 Broadway run famously flopped, but its 2023 revival with Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe won 4 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical.
Come From Away
This Tony Award-winning musical tells the true story of Gander, Newfoundland, a small town that welcomed 6,579 stranded airline passengers when 38 planes were diverted there on 9/11. Its folk-and-rock score returns ten years after this production's DC debut, honoring the friendship the town offered strangers.
Follies
Stephen Sondheim's Follies, winner of 7 Tony Awards including Best Original Score, has dazzled audiences since debuting on Broadway in 1971. Former showgirls reunite for one final night in the crumbling theatre where their careers began, as memory and reality blur amid a 14-piece orchestra.
The Secret Garden
Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman's musical won three Tony Awards after opening on Broadway in 1991, including Best Book of a Musical. It follows 11-year-old Mary as she moves into her reclusive uncle's manor on the English moors and uncovers a dormant garden's magic.
August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson's drama, produced on Broadway twice and nominated for the 1985 Tony Award for Best Play, follows blues singer Ma Rainey and her band during a fraught 1920s Chicago recording session, as tensions with white studio executives build to a searing finale. Part of Wilson's celebrated American Century Cycle and winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
