Ford's Theatre has staged productions in the heart of Washington, DC since 1968. Today it's a working professional theatre producing musicals and plays that explore American stories, in a landmark building that's stood since 1862. It operates in partnership with the National Park Service.

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Craig Wallace returns as Ebenezer Scrooge in Ford's music-infused staging of Dickens's Yuletide classic, complete with ghosts and a children's ensemble. Wallace has played Scrooge at Ford's since 2016, anchoring a holiday tradition that's run on this stage for more than 40 years.

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Ten years after its Ford's Theatre debut, the Tony-winning musical returns to the stage where it first premiered. It tells the true story of a small Canadian town that took in 6,579 stranded airline passengers when 38 planes were diverted there on 9/11.

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